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This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-25
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This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a ‘real’ and tangible discriminatory phenomenon. In doing so, this book improves...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-01-22
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In diesem essential wird versucht folgende Fragen zu beantworten, Zusammenhänge aufzuzeigen und damit auch Forderungen nach einer verbesserten Strafverfolgung zu begründen: Was verbirgt sich nun hinter der Wirtschaftskriminalität und Organisierter Kriminalität? Wie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-01-22
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This book outlines the theory of convenience for white-collar crime to explain what motivates and enables offenders, providing a unique focus on white-collar crime in the business context. The theory of convenience suggests that the extent to which elite members commit...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-17
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This volume addresses the impact of the September 11th terror attacks on funded programs in policing. Comparing New York City's policing, community policing, and homeland security programs, this brief examines twenty-four years of federal grants to identify shifts in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-12-17
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Die Debatte um die Strafbarkeit von Verbänden dauert in Deutschland seit Jahrzehnten an. Sie hat den Blick dafür verstellt, dass ein Verbandsstrafrecht neben der Frage der Strafbarkeit an sich auch die zu verhängenden Sanktionen regeln muss. Der Autor widmet sich den...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-12-04
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This book offers unparalleled insight into the ways in which hate crime affects individuals and communities across the world. Drawing from the testimonies of more than 2,000 victims of hate crime, the book identifies the physical, emotional and community-level harms...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book offers a systematic, sociological and penological exploration of the most up-to-date uses of electronic tagging (also known as electronic monitoring). With increasingly overcrowded prisons, electronic tagging has been proposed as an alternative form of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-21
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This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-18
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This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites, Scotland’s West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-15
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This book is a study of the response that the police take to modern urban riots. It takes a principally police perspective on the lead-up to a riot, the police response, and the evaluation of the police response. The book is based on the development and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-13
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This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book draws on research into darknet cryptomarkets to examine themes of cybercrime, cybersecurity, illicit markets and drug use. Cybersecurity is increasingly seen as essential yet it is also a point of contention between citizens, states, non-governmental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-29
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This book explores the dual nature of legitimacy in prison. It examines the inter-connectivity between audience perception of legitimacy (the prisoners’ perception) and the power-holders’ perception of legitimacy (the prison staff perception). It defines legitimacy in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-11
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Can punishments ever meaningfully be proportioned in severity to the seriousness of the crimes for which they are imposed? A great deal of attention has been paid to the general justification of punishment, but the thorny practical questions have received significantly...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-02
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In 1990 when Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi published A General Theory of Crime, now often referred to as self control theory, it quickly became among the most discussed and researched perspectives in criminology.In Modern Control Theory and the Limits of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-10-01
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"Written by one of the best Criminological Ethnographers in the business, this text will serve as an invaluable and insightful resource for both novice and seasoned ethnographers of criminological issues." - Anthony Ellis, University of Salford In the first textbook...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-09-30
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'Criminologists have been waiting a very long time for a psychology of crime that speaks their language. Finally it has arrived.' - Dr David Gadd, Keele University Now in an updated second edition, this book explores the links between psychology and crime, taking the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-09-30
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A comprehensive and state-of the-art overview from internationally-recognized experts on white-collar crime covering a broad range of topics from many perspectives Law enforcement professionals and criminal justice scholars have debated the most appropriate definition...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-09-13
Collection :
Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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„Der Mensch mit abweichendem Verhalten ist ein Mensch, auf den diese Bezeichnung erfolgreich angewandt worden ist; abweichendes Verhalten ist Verhalten, das Menschen als solches bezeichnen“: Es ist einer der klassischen Sätze der Devianzsoziologie in einem der Klassiker...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-09-11
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