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Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment by Hadar Aviram 9780520277304
RRP: €95.20€73.65After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby... -
WRITING FOR THEIR LIVES: Death Row USA by Marie Mulvey-Roberts 9780252070990
RRP: €20.22€17.93Going well beyond graphic descriptions of death row's madness and suicide-inducing realities, Writing for Their Lives offers powerful, compassionate, and harrowing accounts of prisoners rediscovering the value of life from within the brutality and... -
The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison by Michael G. Flaherty 9780231203449
RRP: €139.23€108.21Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them "serve" time. The Cage of Days combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and... -
Courting Violence: Offences Against the Person Cases in Court by Nigel Fielding 9780199279357
€95.47Courting violence analyses how the courts handle cases of physical violence. It examines how lawyers and judges go about questioning defendants, witnesses and victims, how testimony and physical evidence is used, what victims, witnesses and defendants... -
Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending by Barry S. Godfrey 9780199217205
€109.91This book uses historical data to directly address modern criminological debates. There is currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and connections between historians and criminologists are becoming much... -
The Cycle of Juvenile Justice by Thomas J. Bernard 9780195370362
RRP: €45.21€27.19When juvenile violence and crime skyrocketed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, every state in the country responded by significantly altering the jurisdiction, purpose, process, sentencing, and services of their juvenile justice systems. Analyzing the... -
Crime and Punishment: Inside Views by Robert Johnson 9780195329858
€47.90Robert Johnson and Hans Toch's Crime and Punishment: Inside Views is an edited volume of original essays written by offenders "in their own words." The book provides a unique, inside view of crime, prisoners, and the experience of punishment... -
Responding to Troubled Youth by Cheryl L. Maxson 9780195098532
€41.94This book provides an overview of the dominant philosophical approaches and practices in handling status offenders - the kinds of youth who habitually resist the control of their parents and schools, who run away from home, who drink and stay out after... -
Cybercrime by Peter Grabosky 9780190211554
RRP: €40.45€39.10In this brief, accessible text, Peter Grabosky provides an introductory overview of cybercrime and the means for its control. He opens with a brief history of the topic and then discusses not only traditional topics--including fraud, hacking, offensive... -
Manoj and Babli: A Hate Story by Dogra, Chander Suta 9780143420804
€17.52Highly recommended . . . this book exposes glimpses of the Dark Ages behind the window dressing of societies that often pose modernism as a policy for all elseexcept for the dignity of women Asma Jahangir, ex-chairperson, Human Rights Commission of... -
Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide by Vivian Shnaidman 9780128028520
RRP: €88.05€79.69Lawyers frequently encounter clients and/or cases of bizarre behavior, mental illness, substance abuse, psychopathy, sexual offenses, learning disorders, birth defects, and other behavioral and emotional issues. Often they are ill-prepared to understand... -
Personal Safety and Security Playbook: Risk Mitigation Guidance for Individuals, Families, Organizations, and Communities by Francis J. D'Addario 9780124172265
RRP: €123.76€110.67The Personal Safety and Security Playbook is designed for anyone who may benefit from shared community safety and security responsibilities. Chapters are organized by areas of concern, from personal risk awareness to protection and security... -
Surveillance and Threat Detection: Prevention versus Mitigation by Richard Kirchner 9780124077805
RRP: €60.68€54.38Surveillance and Threat Detection offers readers a complete understanding of the terrorist/criminal cycle, and how to interrupt that cycle to prevent an attack. Terrorists and criminals often rely on pre-attack and pre-operational planning and... -
Fighting Fraud: How to Establish and Manage an Anti-Fraud Program by Gerald L. Kovacich 9780123708687
RRP: €48.78€44.46This practical reference provides the basics for instituting a corporate anti-fraud program that helps prepare corporate security professionals and other corporate managers for fighting corporate fraud from inside the company. Fighting Fraud provides an... -
Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference by Charles A. Sennewald 9780123705297
RRP: €84.48€77.97Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention is destined to become the "go to" source of crime- and loss prevention- related information in the retail industry. Written and edited by two nationally recognized retail security experts and enhanced with 63... -
Introduction to Criminalistics: The Foundation of Forensic Science by Barry A. J. Fisher 9780120885916
RRP: €84.49€76.58Introduction to Criminalistics covers the basics of Criminalistics in a textbook for a one or two semester course, with the intention of preparing the student for a future in forensic science. The role of the Criminalist is to analyze, compare,... -
Molecular Photofitting: Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA by Tony Frudakis, Ph.D 9780120884926
RRP: €99.96€91.61In the field of forensics, there is a critical need for genetic tests that can function in a predictive or inferential sense, before suspects have been identified, and/or for crimes for which DNA evidence exists but eye-witnesses do not. Molecular... -
Broken Scales: Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America by Tom Diaz 9781538138502
RRP: €35.70€33.34Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around... -
Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State by Corinne Schwarz 9781978833319
RRP: €147.56€127.38Since the turn of the twentieth century, human trafficking has animated public discourses, policy debates, and moral panics in the United States. Though some nuances of these conversations have shifted, the role of the criminal legal system (police... -
Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State by Corinne Schwarz 9781978833302
RRP: €33.31€28.73Since the turn of the twentieth century, human trafficking has animated public discourses, policy debates, and moral panics in the United States. Though some nuances of these conversations have shifted, the role of the criminal legal system (police... -
Crime & Criminal Behavior by Analise Klein 9781634855662
RRP: €138.03€111.29In this book, Chapter One begins with a discussion on the use of dogs in the courtroom. Chapter Two explores the research on the criminal narratives of general offending populations, and introduces new insight into Mentally Disordered Offenders (MDOs),... -
Gun Control: Background, Regulation & Legislation by William B. Parnell 9781606928905
RRP: €63.06€42.03Virtually every crime gun in the United States starts off as a legal firearm, "according to then-Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) director Bradley Buckles. In a report, the ATF looked at how guns then "pass through the legitimate... -
Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States 2023 by Shana Hertz Hattis 9781636714141
RRP: €99.96€89.55Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States is a special edition of Crime in the United States. It brings together key reports that fall under this category. Topics covered include capital punishment, rape and sexual assault among... -
Terrorism Risk Insurance: Analyses & Prospects by Oscar A. Madsen 9781626186972
RRP: €101.14€66.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626186972Author Oscar A MadsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 198g -
Unemployment & Crime: Experimental Evidence of the Causal Effects of Intensified ALMPs on Crime Rates Among Unemployed Individuals by Signe Hald Andersen 9788790199647
RRP: €6.55€5.72A number of studies investigate the extent to which levels of welfare benefits reduce crime among the unemployed. This paper expands this literature by testing whether the intensity of other welfare programs aimed at the unemployed affects their criminal... -
Serving Time or Serving the Community?: Exploiting a Policy Reform to Assess the Causal Effects of Community Service on Income, Social Benefit Dependency & Recidivism by Signe Hald Andersen 9788790199630
RRP: €6.55€5.72There is a widespread belief among criminologists, judges and the like that criminals are better off serving non-custodial sentences instead of going to prison. However, empirical evidence of the effects of community service is scarce. This paper... -
Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud: Challenges & Reduction Efforts by Lucas Haynes 9781634826020
RRP: €147.55€119.33Identity theft tax refund fraud is a persistent, evolving threat to honest taxpayers and tax administration. It occurs when an identity thief files a fraudulent tax return using a legitimate taxpayer's identifying information and claims a refund. This... -
Federal Use of Confidential Informants: Analysis & Guidelines by Annie Morrison 9781634848664
€141.96Federal law enforcement components used more than 16,000 confidential informants in fiscal year 2013 as part of criminal investigations. Informants can be critical to an investigation, but without appropriate oversight, problems can occur that undermine... -
White-Collar and Financial Crimes: A Casebook of Fraudsters, Scam Artists, and Corporate Thieves by Jennifer C. Noble 9780520302884
RRP: €95.20€73.65Examining a shocking array of fraud, corruption, theft, and embezzlement cases, this vivid collection reveals the practice of detecting, investigating, prosecuting, defending, and resolving white-collar crimes. Each chapter is a case study of an... -
Coast Guard Drug Interdiction & Cutter Procurement: Background & Resource Issues by Kourtney Harris 9781634631761
RRP: €195.15€128.45The Coast Guard provided varying levels of resources for drug interdiction operations in the "transit zone" -- the area from South America through the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean that is used to transport illicit drugs to the... -
Crime Rates, Types & Hot Spots by Alexander D. Morina 9781613246825
RRP: €168.97€111.46In this book, the authors present current research in the study of crime rates, types and hot spots. Topics discussed include a forensic and social approach to drug facilitated crimes; violent crime in South Africa and apartheid; institutional corruption... -
Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry by John M. Halushka 9780520388697
RRP: €29.75€23.31Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family... -
Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry by John M. Halushka 9780520388680
RRP: €95.20€73.65Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucratic spaces of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family... -
Law Enforcement & Crime by Emanuel T. Rhodes 9781634841276
RRP: €168.97€136.92This book provides an overview of current analyses and developments pertaining to the law enforcement and crime. Chapter one analyses individual elements of the polygraph examination in pre-employment cases in law enforcement agencies, and attempts to... -
Scholarly Influence in Criminology & Criminal Justice by Ellen G. Cohn 9781631179570
RRP: €147.55€97.54This is the first book to trace scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over a twenty-year time period. It is based primarily on the analysis of citations in major journals, but it also includes studies of publication productivity. This... -
Firearms in America: Selected Issues & Analyses by Alfonso D. Sutton 9781631178238
RRP: €179.68€118.42Congress has broad authority pursuant to the Commerce Clause to enact laws in areas that may overlap with traditional state jurisdiction. As such, Congress has passed complex statutory provisions that regulate the possession, receipt, transfer, and... -
Corporate Criminal Liability: Federal Law & Prosecutorial Discretion Issues by Brandon P. Burton 9781631177248
RRP: €101.14€66.56A corporation is criminally liable for the federal crimes its employees or agents commit in its interest. Corporate officers, employees, and agents are individually liable for the crimes they commit, for the crimes they conspire to commit, for the... -
Drug Trade, Trafficking & Policies by Megan O. Griffiths 9781611229325
RRP: €138.03€91.37A drug policy most often refers to a government's attempt to combat the negative effects of drug addiction and misuse in its society. Governments try to combat drug addiction with policies which address both the demand and supply of drugs, as well as... -
Crime & Law Enforcement Issues by James E. Hirsch 9781611228779
RRP: €147.55€97.54This book presents and discusses information in the study of criminal justice and law enforcement. Topics discussed include capital punishment; juvenile justice; the use of DNA in cold cases; statutes of limitation in federal criminal cases; the illicit... -
Offender Reentry: Background, Federal Programs & an Annotated Bibliography by Micah J Hiram 9781631174964
RRP: €83.29€55.07The prison population in the United States has been growing steadily for over 30 years. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that since 2000 an average of 680,000 inmates have been released annually from state and federal prisons and almost 5 million...