Criminology: Legal Aspects

Thieving ninjas, racist fast-food patrons, road traffic accidents, mischievous shoplifters, sudden deaths, car chases, and domestic violence its a...

The Criminalization series arose from an interdisciplinary investigation into criminalization, focussing on the principles that might guide decisio...

Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime and disorder. Me...

The Death Penalty, Third Edition, brings together all the legal issues related to the death penalty and provides case briefs for the most important...

The monograph discusses the problem of aerial terrorism, one of the biggest challenges humanity faces in the 21st century. Its main goal is to answ...

This book describes an effort to document alcohol ignition interlock programs in the United States in order to highlight those programs or program ...

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications...

Private Security and the Law, Fifth Edition, is a singular resource that provides the most comprehensive analysis of practices in the security indu...

The Law Officers Pocket Manual is a handy, pocket-sized, spiral-bound manual that highlights basic legal rules for quick reference and offers examp...

In this compelling book, Lawrence M. Friedman looks at situations where killing is condemned by law but not by social norms and, therefore, is rare...

The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading ex...

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

Forensic DNA analysis plays a central role in the judicial system. A DNA sample can change the course of an investigation with immense consequences...

No one is innocent in this story. First Rule: Make them like you.Second Rule: Make them need you.Third Rule: M...

Examining the theoretical debates behind the headlines and engaging with current debates, Sentencing and Punishment provides thoughtful, impartial,...

THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW Fascinating Sunday Times Masterf...

Blackstone's Police Investigators' Q&A 2022 is your essential revision aid for preparing for the National Investigator's Examination (NIE). The...

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings a...

Everyday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and inju...

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which ...

Camera Power is the first book to tackle the policy questions raised by two ongoing revolutions in recording the police: copwatching and police-wor...

Forensic linguistics is at the cutting edge of the undercover policing of child sexual abuse on the open internet and dark web, and language and id...

Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps...

From sexualized selfies and hidden camera documentaries to the bouncers monitoring patrons at Australian nightclubs, the ubiquity of contemporary s...