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This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus. With a particular focus on women’s penal policy, Birkett uncovers how reform strategies have augmented and developed under changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-04
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This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon through history, as well as current representations of gangs in literature and media. It includes:
- A detailed global overview of gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong Kong,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-07-03
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This volume addresses the varied response to domestic violence in a comparative, international context. The chapters are laid out in a consistent format, to cover: the nature of the domestic violence problem, theoretical explanations, the criminal justice...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This book explores young people’s experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK. In particular, the book focuses on disadvantaged young people’s experiences in education, in the labour market, with police...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This book analyzes New York City’s stop-and-frisk data both pre- and post-constitutionality ruling, examining the existence of both profiling and unequal treatment among the three largest groups identified in the database: Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. The purpose for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-15
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?Mit dieser kriminologischen Längsschnittstudie nimmt Verena Boxberg Jugendstrafgefangene zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten in den Blick. Die Autorin betrachtet zunächst die Lebenskonstellationen der jungen Menschen vor ihrer Inhaftierung und anschließend, wie diese als...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-14
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This Brief discusses the role of state-level criminal justice organizations in the prevention and control of crime and delinquency. State agencies play an important role in translating criminological knowledge into criminal justice policy and practice. Their unique...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-07
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This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world. It is divided into seven sections: Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship; Carceral Retasking, Curation and Commodification of Punishment; Meanings of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-17
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This book aims to bridge the gap between general CEO research, which is traditionally focused on positive aspects of leadership, and lesser understood research into CEO misconduct and crime. Gottschalk introduces convenience theory as an integrated explanation for CEO...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-11
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Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-08
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This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers’ susceptibility to increased harm. Based on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-05
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This book is rooted in the conviction that human biology plays a critical role in understanding drug abuse and antisocial behavior. In the same breath, however, it fundamentally affirms the importance of the many social and environmental factors that influence our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-02
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Burcu Uysal untersucht die spezifischen Mechanismen, die bei jungen Männern mit Migrationshintergrund für die Entstehung und Entwicklung antisozialen Verhaltens eine Rolle spielen, und wertet sie im Hinblick auf Präventions- und Interventionsmaßnahmen aus. Die...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-28
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This book represents a brief treatise on the theory and research behind the concept of desistance from crime.This ever-growing field has become increasingly relevant as questions of serious issues regarding sentencing, probation and the penal system continue to go...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-25
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Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken with the specialist detective units of two English police services....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-14
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This book examines the changing police landscape over the past 25 years to establish how Police Leadership has evolved to meet this challenge. Through interviews with 35 Chief Police Officers in the UK, the author explores a range of policing issues such as crime...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-11
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This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands. Over the years changes in Dutch penal policy have smoothed to some degree the sharp contrasting differences that were once characteristic of the English and the Dutch prison...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-06
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This book examines the lives of the sentenced to argue that 'sentencing' should be re-conceived to consider the human perspective. It combines a range of modern criminological and legal theories together with interviews with prisoners in New South Wales,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-29
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Die interdisziplinären Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes untersuchen systemübergreifend das Risikomanagement der Korruption in deutschen Unternehmen und Kommunen. Es werden die Ergebnisse aus der Erfassung und den Analysen des forensischen Risikomanagements von...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-03-29
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The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its investigation and prevention. Includes...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-16
Collection :
Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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