Criminology: Legal Aspects

Represents a scholarly and ambitious attempt to improve the quality of interviews received by the courts and minimize the risks of miscarriages of ...

This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that, to date, have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and cri...

Crime science is precisely what it says it is: the application of science to the phenomenon of crime. This handbook, intended as a crime science ma...

From small law offices to federal agencies, all entities within the justice system are governed by complicated economic factors and face daily fina...

An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-...

A Precarious Life offers an internal view of conflict among one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Britain. The long-term...

The centennial of the American Law Institute is a landmark event. A lifespan of one hundred years is significant for a law reform project. Most suc...

In criminal cases, practitioners such as police officers, crime scene investigators, pathologists, prosecutors, and judges are expected to make dec...

Winner, 2021-2022 AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American Ethnological Society Honorable Mention, Senior Book Prize of the Association for F...

This volume is one of the few books to explain in-depth the international crimes behind the scenes of substantive or procedural law. The contributo...

From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from ...

Regime Consolidation and Transitional Justice explores the effect of transitional justice measures on 'regime consolidation', or the means by which...

Drugs are pervasive in our everyday lives across cultures around the world. At the same time, they present one of the thorniest problems of twenty-...

In this monograph, the authors provide an overview of Canadas NF capability in addition to general aspects of the nuclear forensics that is useful ...

In Red Zones, Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Céline Bellot examine the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and senten...

'Free will skepticism' refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human beings lack the control in action - i.e. the ...

With contributions from leading authorities, this is the definitive guide to current criminological theory, research, and policy. The Oxford Handb...

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The c...

This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal sys...

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and a...

Kriminologie ist das empirische Fach, das sich in spezifischer Weise mit den normativen Voraussetzungen und tatsächlichen Bedingungen befasst, unte...

The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society is the premier reference book on gangs for practitioners, policymakers, students, and scholars. This caref...

Cybercrime and Digital Deviance, Second Edition, combines insights from sociology, criminology, psychology, and cybersecurity to explore cybercrime...

Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US presi...

This book explores how forensic psychology has come to inhabit a central unifying discursive presence in the life world of modern carceral institut...

Crime Scene Investigation offers an innovative approach to learning about crime scene investigation, taking the reader from the first response on t...

This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime. Th...

Unlocking Criminal Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise term...

This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money launderi...

Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. Th...

This book discusses privatization of law enforcement in relation to suspected corporate crime and recommends guidelines for successful fraud examin...

The standard text in the field, Vold's Theoretical Criminology is universally known by scholars in the discipline. Taking a largely historical appr...

When a person who is charged with a violent crime claims the sleepwalking defense, sleep experts are often retained by one or both sides of the cas...

Why do young people engage in acts of crime and what is it that drives their criminal careers? These are the key questions addressed in Character, ...

The need for and the threats to improved public policy are equally acute. Crime policy agenda continues to be driven by anecdotal evidence and poli...

Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis begins with the simple question of why some categories of mental disorder include immoral or criminal conduct as dia...

Inhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousan...

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice processoutlining the decisions, prac...

Volume 52 is an annual survey of cutting-edge issues by preeminent criminology scholars.   Since 1979, Crime and Justice has presented a review of ...

This book guides policing students through the areas of Criminology and crime prevention required for their course and help them apply this knowled...

Millions of pounds are spent every year trying to tackle human trafficking, modern slavery and child sexual exploitation. These are apparently thre...