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  • THE CRIMINAL CLASSES
    BARRY GODFREY / ALEXANDRA GODFREY
    We explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking London’s streets to the menace of violent gangs, the ‘Scuttlers’, Peaky Blinders, and Liverpool’s High Rip, all the way through to 1970s joyriders, 1990s ravers, and the modern drug trade that brings guns and knives to o...

    $255.99

  • FORENSIC JUSTICE
    Forensic science is playing an increasingly important role in criminal investigations, as it provides scientific methods and techniques to gather and analyse evidence from crime scenes. Forensic evidence can be crucial in identifying suspects, linking them to the crime scene, and helping to secure convictions in court. In this sense, forensic science is seen as an aid to crimin...

    $1,099.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
    CHERYL ALLSOP
    The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on various complexities that are involved in the investigation of homicides. The handbook discusses the challenges faced by homicide detectives, especially since not ev...

    $1,179.00

  • LA FORTUNA DEL PRINCIPIANTE
    ESTEBAN NAVARRO SORIANO
    Simón, un adolescente che vive in una cittadina sulla costa e i cui genitori sono malati, decide di commettere piccoli furti con l'intenzione di aiutarli economicamente. In poche settimane si rende conto che rubando si possono guadagnare molti più soldi, e molto più in fretta, che lavorando. Quando scopre che anche una ragazza della compagnia, più grande di lui e per la quale p...

    $52.00

  • JUSTICE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, AND CANADA
    CAMPBELL, KATHRYN M
    Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. Both Indigenous and Canadian scholars situate current issues of justice for Indigenous peoples, broadly...

    $1,099.00

  • POLICING WELFARE FRAUD
    SCARLET WILCOCK
    Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance. In Australia, which serves as the empirical focus of this book, these strategies include stringent ID checks, pre-emptive data surveillance technologies including the infamous and illegal ‘robodebt’ programme, a dedicated fraud hotline and an ‘int...

    $1,099.00

  • GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND THE LAW
    AGNĖ LIMANTĖ
    This book presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives. It encompasses various conceptual discussions and international regulations and trends, while concurrently emphasising the legal regulations and practices of select Central and Eastern European countries. Significantly underrepresent...

    $1,099.00

  • MOBILITIES, SOCIAL CHANGE AND CRIME
    KONRAD BUCZKOWSKI / PAULINA WIKTORSKA
    This book presents a synthesis of selected trends in the dynamics and structure of crime in Poland over the past 30 years, in the context of ongoing social transformations in the wider region. The book explores the impact of the deep systemic transformation of the late 1980s and early 1990s on the phenomenon of crime, its structure and dynamics, and the policy of its control in...

    $1,099.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO POLICING
    MICHAEL ROWE / LIAM RALPH / ALI MALIK
    "An extremely valuable source of reading, information, and guidance for my policing students. It covers all the topical issues." Johannes Oosthuizen – Lecturer at Winchester University Introducing the definitive guide for students and professionals alike who want to gain a comprehensive understanding of policing in the 21st century. This updated edition of Introduction to Polic...

    $761.99

  • CYBERCRIME AND SOCIETY
    MAJID YAR / KEVIN F. STEINMETZ
    Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this complex and fascinating topic.  But just what are cybercrimes? And who are the cybercriminals? You will learn how the internet and communication technologies present new challenges to individual ...

    $679.17

  • WRECKING CREW
    JOHN FERAK
    Updated 5th Anniversary Edition Including Exclusive Interview with Steve Avery In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK's Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case against Steven Avery, who had already beaten one wrongful conviction only to be charged again with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. This case c...

    $179.00

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY
    RICHARD WORTLEY
    Psychological Criminology explores what is it about individuals and their experiences that causes them to commit crime and/or to become criminal. Fully updated to include the latest theories and research, this new edition provides comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. It arranges theories in temporal sequence, from distal to proximal causes ...

    $979.00

  • ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY
    MARTIN A. ANDRESEN
    The field of environmental criminology is a staple theoretical framework in contemporary criminological theory. This fully revised and expanded edition of the world’s first comprehensive and sole-authored textbook on this influential school of criminological thought covers a wide range of topics, including: the origins of environmental criminology; the primary theoretical frame...

    $979.00

  • TRIANGLE OF DEATH
    FRANK ROBERTSON
    Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads. It looks at the Triads active in Hong Kong, the Golden Triangle and Amsterdam, and shows how these groups have spread across the Western world. ...

    $1,339.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF EVIDENCE-BASED CRIMINAL JUSTICE PRACTICES
    EDELYN VERONA
    Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences. One of the best means to address these concerns is to draw upon evidence-based approaches demonstrated to be effective through empirical r...

    $1,179.00

  • WOMEN, STIGMA, AND DESISTANCE FROM CRIME
    GILLY SHARPE
    How do young women negotiate their identity in the shadow of a criminal past? What expectations can these women have and what constraints do they face in embracing change and reform? In this new book, Gilly Sharpe returns to the group of women interviewed in her bestselling book Offending Girls, to ask these questions and more. Building on wide-ranging interviews with young adu...

    $1,099.00

  • SOCIAL REHABILITATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
    FEDERICA COPPOLA
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion. The volume offers a narrative of social rehab...

    $1,099.00

  • NEUROLAW IN THE COURTROOM
    HANNAH WISHART AND COLLEEN M. BERRYESSA
    This collection presents a comparative perspective on interdisciplinary issues that fall under the emerging field of Neurolaw. The chapters embrace distinct procedural and evidential issues in the courtroom for vulnerable defendants, such as immature defendants, mentally disordered offenders and unfit-to-plead defendants, through a neuroscientific lens. This view is informed by...

    $539.00

  • CRIMINAL LAW, PROCEDURE, AND EVIDENCE
    WALTER P. SIGNORELLI
    Providing a complete view of U.S. legal principles, this book addresses distinct issues as well as the overlays and connections between them. It presents as a cohesive whole the interrelationships between constitutional principles, statutory criminal laws, procedural law, and common-law evidentiary doctrines. This fully revised and updated new edition also includes discussion q...

    $1,799.00

  • QUESTIONING PUNISHMENT
    HENRIQUE CARVALHO / ANASTASIA CHAMBERLEN
    This book questions punishment as concept, social phenomenon and contemporary practice. It unpacks punishment’s nature and the assumptions that underpin it, examines its targets, objectives and implications, locates punishment and punitivity within their social contexts, and aims to unsettle the idea that there is something common-sensical, necessary and unavoidable about punit...

    $999.00

  • ON THE CRISIS OF BOKO HARAM TERRORISM
    SOGO ANGEL OLOFINBIYI
    The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It describes the terrorism as a by-product of unresolved conflict emanating from unequal hegemonic power exchange with respect to the non-fulfillment of socio-economic goals between the political state and the citizenry. Rather...

    $1,099.00

  • HANDBOOK ON PRISONS AND JAILS
    The Handbook on Prisons and Jails brings together some of the brightest scholars and thinkers in the field to offer a wide range of perspectives for understanding the experiences of persons incarcerated or working/volunteering within carceral institutions. The assembled chapters consider what is known in the area while identifying emerging areas for theoretical, empirical, and ...

    $1,179.00

  • INTENCIONES OCULTAS
    ALAN BRENHAM
    Cuando la misión de Cailey Marshall, de trece años, a una casa abandonada de Texas sale mal, debe encontrar formas de escapar de sus despiadados secuestradores y sobrevivir, mientras que sus padres se ven obligados a tomar una decisión mortal para salvar a su hija y descubrir la verdad. Cailey se embarca en un desafío ideado por su camarilla de amigas, pero el desafío sale muy ...

    $69.00

  • WAR AS PROTECTION AND PUNISHMENT
    TERESA DEGENHARDT
    This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo, Iraq and Libya. These cases reveal the operation of diverse modalities of punishment in extending the ambit of international liberal governance. The argument starts from an analysis of these discourses to trace the historica...

    $1,099.00

  • MASS INCARCERATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions. Assembling contributions from leading experts in a variety of disciplines as well as the voices of directly impacted people, the editors have created a diverse collection of chapters addressing prison, punishment, incarceration, reentry, and reintegr...

    $999.00

  • REFRAMING POLICE EDUCATION AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA
    MARTIN ALAN GREENBERG / BETH ALLEN EASTERLING
    This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight. The recommended approach recognizes that the citizenry needs to be included in the provision of basic police education, for it is they who must both support and be served by their police. The police must be role models for society, de...

    $999.00

  • GRIM PARADISE
    ROD SADLER
    The true crime story of a 1960 murder that rocked a tranquil Michigan vacation spot and the search for justice that followed. When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the qu...

    $200.00

  • MANAGING POLICY AND REFORM IN AN ERA OF AMERICAN POLICE CONFLICT
    JACK ST. HILAIRE
    The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard them but themselves. In The Republic, Plato spoke favorably about the guardians of the republic; they should be trusted to behave and perform their duties appropriately without oversight. Half a millennium later, the Roman satirist, J...

    $1,099.00

  • LEADING WORKS IN CRIMINAL LAW
    CHLOË KENNEDY
    This book analyses a selection of leading works in the criminal law to ask questions about how the modern discipline of criminal law has developed, how it has been deployed in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and how criminal law scholarship has engaged with traditionally marginalised perspectives such as feminism, queer theory, and anti-carceral and abolitionist movements. ...

    $1,099.00

  • COMMUNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF CRIME
    KAREN EVANS
    This book offers a useful theoretical overview of key approaches to the subject of crime and community and considers the ways in which these have been applied in more practical settings. Written by an expert in the field and drawing on a range of international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, this book explores both why and how crime and community ha...

    $999.00