Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Why do so many school antiviolence programmes backfire? And why do policymakers keep making the same mistakes? The authors of Responding to School ...

The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross...

The deputy sheriff or sheriff of a county often is perceived as the lone officer protecting the citizens of a small town. Country Cop is the riveti...

We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outs...

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 ...

'Superbly written and brilliantly argued, Move To Murder is a true-crime lover's dream. Brown lifts the lid on decades of secrets that could be key...

This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical e...

This book offers the first in-depth study of one of the most gripping trials of inter-war Britain, that of farmers wife Beatrice Pace for the arsen...

Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Susp...

In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called law in context extending legal studies beyond black letter law. Th...

How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crim...

In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border sta...

Despite living in an era of decreasing crime rates, Canadians express concern over crime and push politicians to respond in increasingly punitive w...

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens--and that the torturers...

We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outs...

The surprising true story of Mexicos hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage...

The surprising true story of Mexicos hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage...

Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement, Tenth Edition, offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in...

The fifth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed The Politics of the Police has been completely revised, expanded, and updated to take in rece...

Hate crime is a particularly pernicious form of criminal behaviour that has significant impacts upon victims, their families and wider communities....

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often cons...

Forensic scientists apply scientific analysis in a legal context and play a vital role in solving crimes. Sometimes the collection of forensic evid...

School crime and violence continue to be a major concern of educators, policymakers, administrators, and parents. Understanding the scope and natur...

This book is an examination of the minimum performance standard developed in collaboration with the Office of Law Enforcement Standards to determin...