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This book explores how an audience of men serving sentences in an English prison responded to viewing five contemporary British prison films. It examines how media representations of prison vary in style and content, how film can influence public attitudes, and how this...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-11-16
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The book provides a contemporary ‘snapshot’ of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and inform social and educational policy. It covers theoretical explanations for cybercrime, typologies of online grooming,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-13
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This brief comparatively reviews the security and safety features of hotels and home sharing services. It reviews crime data, laws, and applicable theories – such as defensible space, rational choice, and routine activity theories - to determine how responsibility for...
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Springer
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2020-11-09
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Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 examines the evolution of this pattern in the over 1400...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-31
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Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 examines the evolution of this pattern in the over 1400...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-10-31
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This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture reverse...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-10-30
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Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Hate Crime Statistics Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey, this brief highlights the uniqueness of hate or bias crime victimization. It compares these to non-bias crimes and delineates the situational...
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Springer
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2020-10-23
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In Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault, Matthew Barry Johnson introduces new directions in wrongful conviction research and understanding. Citing Innocence Project and National Registry of Exoneration data, the book identifies sexual assault as the predominant offense...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-19
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Das Buch liefert aus rechtlicher und kriminologischer Perspektive einen aktuellen Blick auf den Strafvollzug und die Wiedereingliederung nach der Entlassung. Namhafte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis stellen in gut verständlicher Weise ihre Forschungsergebnisse vor...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book explores the potential of domestic abuse data to assess the level of harm caused to victims and the amount of resources required to respond to it. Policing domestic abuse has become a major activity for the police service in England and Wales. Part of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-29
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This book evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention measures implemented by social media platforms to identifying, blocking, and removing content linked to illegal traded medicines. It discusses the extent of social media usage in trafficking of medicines;...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-17
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This book deals with the widespread economic and financial crime issues of corruption, the shadow economy and money laundering. It investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of these crimes, identifying their effects on economic, social and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-29
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This book, the first of a two volume study, provides an historical account of complaints against Metropolitan police officers between formation of the force in 1829 and codification of remedies for misconduct under the Police Act 1964. A complainant centred standpoint...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-25
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'A horrific story superbly told' - Irish TimesThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of entrenched racism at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital...
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Quercus
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2020-08-20
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This brief extends studies on how corporations respond to scandals by examining the evolution of the accounts that corporate agents develop after a scandal becomes public. Guided by the theory of accounts and a recently developed perspective on crisis management, its...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-17
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The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups. This development raises important questions about the causes, features, and consequences of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-13
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This book examines the use of social network analysis (SNA) in operational environments from the perspective of those who actually apply it. A rapidly growing body of literature suggests that SNA can reveal significant insights into the overall structure of criminal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-24
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This book provides an overview of crimes involving water, including pollution, illegal dumping, and supply chain disruption from a criminological perspective. It examines a multifaceted issue from a comparative policy perspective supplemented with individual case...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-07-23
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This book illustrates the importance of conflicting narratives in understanding and dealing with crime, based on a variety of cutting-edge research. Offenders tell stories about crime and punishment, as do policemen, judges and defence lawyers, but so do politicians and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-18
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Die Verteidigung in Verfahren wegen Vergewaltigung, sexuellen Missbrauchs oder sonstiger Sexualstraftaten bedeutet für jeden Verteidiger eine besondere Verantwortung. Denn so steht für die Beschuldigten solcher Vorwürfe im Falle einer Verurteilung meist nicht nur die...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-07-17
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