Criminology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416585794Author Robert D. KeppelFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 417g

Virginia's capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, brutality, unsanitary conditions, and pandemics. One of the biggest stains in the city's past was the spectacle of public executions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504352963Author Ph D Ginger CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476798554Author Craig RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 124mm *...

This contemporary text addresses a wide range of diverse groups in society as they relate to the criminal justice system. Multiculturalism and the Criminal Justice System, 1e, is the contemporary text that addresses diversity and multicultural issues in...

Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminology's Division of Policing Section The first in-depth history and analysis of a much-abused policing policy No policing tactic has been more controversial than "stop and...

This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model.Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion...

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their...

In the five state regions of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been legally hanged, gassed or electrocuted in the century after the Civil War. Drawing on thousands of hours of research, this...

Fraud committed against the elderly has reached epidemic proportions, and the problem will only worsen as a large segment of the American population approaches retirement age. This book explores the disturbing rise in these offenses - crimes aimed at a...

The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings with support from a few early police agencies. This work is a history of the polygraph, from the experimental work of the late 1800s that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781137279439Author Graham A RaymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

"Oh, it's like CSI...": A Qualitative Study of Job Satisfaction Experiences of Forensic Scientists goes beyond the glamorous portrayals of CSI professionals on television to highlight the real sources of job satisfaction among forensic...

A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender. It looks at crime as just one of the many types of suffering that exemplify human life. According to peacemaking...

This book is a systematic examination of the nature of America's crime and criminal justice system as defined by its policy-makers at different times and in disparate contexts of social and political realities. By examining legislative documents and...

CSI has been heralded in many spheres of public discourse as a televisual revolution, its effects on the public unprecedented. The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI's appeal cannot be disentangled from either its...

CSI has been heralded in many spheres of public discourse as a televisual revolution, its effects on the public unprecedented. The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI's appeal cannot be disentangled from either its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419619663Author Colin Russell BevanFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint BookSurgePublisher BookSurge

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240093601Author William a WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Gale, Making of Modern LawPublisher Gale, Making of Modern LawWeight(grams) 64g

Based on Joachim J. Savelsberg and Peter Bruhl, Politik und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht: Rationalitaten, Kommunikationen und Macht (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1988), revised, translated, and with a new chapter on the United States.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275265Author Steffen ZdunFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013270505Author Rafaela GranjaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013273766Author Emma Battell LowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Since the first edition was published in 1989, Character and Cops has been considered the bible of police ethics training. The book is a comprehensive guide to the ethical challenges faced daily by police officers, especially in times of heightened...

In a series of landmark decisions in the early 1960s, the United States Supreme Court revolutionized police procedures by imposing stricter requirements, such as search warrants, Miranda warnings, and the exclusion of improperly obtained evidence from...

'Afghanistan is seen as a major drug producer, but its own people are becoming the victims. ... David Macdonald not only explores [the reasons for this] but also tells an addictive tale that is difficult to resist.' Shirazuddin Siddiqi, BBC 'This...

Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the...

Policing Urban Poverty provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the policy implications of social problems for the welfare state in general and the police service in particular, through an examination of the relationship between discourses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641434874Author Shana Hertz HattisFormat HardbackPage Count 675Imprint Bernan PressPublisher Bernan PressWeight(grams) 216g

In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Roth argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults-friends,...

Four bullet-torn bodies in a drug-ridden South Bronx alley. A college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway. A wild shootout on the streets of Washington Heights, home of New York City's immigrant Dominican community and hub of the eastern...

San Quentin State Prison, California's oldest prison and the nation's largest, is notorious for once holding America's most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2007. Short-listed for Anthony Awards (Critical Nonfiction) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780471648796Author E.J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998237527Author Jeff ShantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524928988Author Stephen WofseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

A play in two Acts with an Introduction by the author. The story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee is one of the most bizarre in English criminal history. Lee is the only person to have been reprieved by a Home Secretary after standing on a gallows trap which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274480Author John D MaguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g