Causes and prevention of crime Books

Book SynopsisSitting at the extreme end of criminal justice and offending behaviour, public protection policy has been politicised and used to reshape wider debates. Exploring the development of public protection policy and legislation since the early 1990s, Politics and Public Protection considers the necessity for extreme measures and the actual extent of serious crime to unveil the populist nature of the way political debates have been framed over time.Analysing the UK setting where the public protection debate has been ?weaponised? to create public fear and ?with us or against us? positions, authors Mike Nash and Andy Williams chronicle how this form of politics has now extended into a range of policy areas, including Brexit. Emphasising the political context of the evolution of public protection policy over time, the chapters investigate different types of dangerous criminal behaviour, public protection agencies and responses to panic and failure, providing a critical analysis of the use of risk to reshape and reframe public protection policy and practice.Responding to the need for an updated discussion on public protection and criminal justice legislation that links the past to the present, Politics and Public Protection closely examines the interplay between politics and extreme criminal justice measures.

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In recent decades the video games industry has grown astronomically, quickly becoming a substantial part of our everyday lives. Alongside the rise of this technology, the media, academia and, in some cases, governments, have drawn correlations between video games and serious instances of violence, focusing most notably on mass shootings. This narrow debate has distracted from our understanding of many of the harms which video games can, in some cases, cause, perpetuate or hide.Drawing upon the emerging deviant leisure perspective, this book seeks to re-orientate the debate on video games and their associated potential harms. Through the examination of culturally embedded harms such as gambling, sexual violence and addiction, together with the rise in swatting and other activities, the authors explore the notion that video games are inexplicably intertwined with aspects of deviancy.Table of ContentsChapter 1.Introduction; Craig Kelly, Adam Lynes and Kevin Hoffin Chapter 2. Social Scientists as the Architects of their own Defeat in the Study of Video Games; Max Hart Chapter 3. A chronology of video game deviance; Kevin Hoffin and Elaine DeVos Chapter 4. Death by Swat: The Three Elements of Swatting; John Bahadur Lamb Chapter 5. Addiction, gambling and Gaming: Chasing the Digital Dragon; Melindy Brown and Saabirah Osman Chapter 6. The democratisation of white-collar criminality in video games; Craig Kelly and Adam Lynes Chapter 7. Representation of LGBTQ Communities in the Grand Theft Auto Series; Ben Colliver Chapter 8. The Normalisation of Sexual Deviance and Sexual Violence in Video Games; Kevin Hoffin and Geraldine Lee-Treweek Chapter 9. ‘Gaming the System?’ The Merits, Myth and Realities in Understanding Prison Architect: Security, Rehabilitation and Violence as Represented in the World’s Bestselling Carceral Video Game; James Treadwell Chapter 10. Conclusion; Craig Kelly, Adam Lynes and Kevin Hoffin

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Book SynopsisIn 21st century Britain the rich are protected while the poor punished. Rich Crime, Poor Crime shows how contemporary British society is founded on a legacy of past plunder and dispossession by elites against the rest. Over centuries, power and property have been consolidated in the hands of a few and coded in legal systems that favoured the rich and created extreme inequality. Colin Webster puts a spotlight on Britain’s hereditary and new ruling classes, whose inherited entanglements in land ownership, war and conquest, new world slavery, finance, trade, industry and empire allow them to accumulate and grow capital and wealth at the expense of others. He reveals a system facilitated by political corruption and wealth that accommodates serious wrongdoing – such as corporate, banking and accounting fraud, money laundering and tax evasion – and does substantial harm to fellow Britons. Examining the conditions of extreme inequality that give rise to poor crime and rich crime – and to the social response to both types of crime – we find them to be deeply implicated one with the other. Rich Crime, Poor Crime is vital reading for academics and professionals interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.Trade ReviewIn this brilliant book, Colin Webster shows that today’s billionaire kleptocrats and oligarchs are, in reality, the capitalist ‘children’ of their robber forebears. With a critical eye firmly on the violent and plundering historical role of states, companies and the upper classes Webster provides a passionate, detailed and sweeping review of the myriad abuses of humanity that became enshrined in elite-state formations and law, alongside the power they came to wield with colonial expansion. As the winners of the economic system strode and plundered the globe’s resources, new forms and extremes of damage to populations were unleashed, sanctified in law. A work of scholarship, insight and relevant example, Rich Crime, Poor Crime reinvigorates debate about the complex roots of harm in the societies and economies we all inhabit. This is a history of harm absolutely for our time today. -- Rowland AtkinsonColin Webster is to be congratulated for producing such an insightful book at a time when a discussion of the relationships between inequality and crime is needed more than ever. Drawing on a range of existing studies, Webster takes us on a journey from early modern England to the present day, illuminating how contemporary British society is founded on a legacy of past exploitation by elites against the populous. In examining the conditions of extreme inequality that give rise to both crimes committed by the poor and crimes committed by the rich, Webster provides us with the text 1973’s The New Criminology suggested was needed. -- Stephen FarrallThis is an extraordinarily important book on how inequality shapes, and is shaped by, the law and criminal justice system. A must-read for everyone concerned with social justice. -- Kate E. PickettWe have become so accustomed to the idiom that ‘there is one law for the rich and another for the poor’ that its precise origins, meaning, and effects are often obfuscated. Webster provides a rich and detailed expose of how inequalities built into early processes of capitalist accumulation, colonial exploitation and formulations of the 'rule of law’ persist today. Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a devastating critique of how networks of elite power continue to inflict violence, theft and hardship on others whilst remaining immune to legal sanction. -- John MuncieRich Crime, Poor Crime boldly challenges our usual ways of thinking about crime, social harm and inequality. Adopting a historical approach, Colin Webster shows how the rich have legalized and obscured practices that harm others and allow them to benefit at others' expense, and continue to do so in novel ways. Accessible, direct and compelling. -- Andrew Sayer * Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crime, Inequality and the Rule of Law Part I. Taking the Long View Chapter 1. Capitalism and Crime in Early Modern England Chapter 2. Accumulation by Dispossession: Land Grabs, Enclosure and Trespass Chapter 3. Property, Poverty and the Rule of Law Chapter 4. State Crime: War and Plunder, Slavery, Empire and Famine Part II. Rich and Poor Crime in Modern Britain Chapter 5. Rich and Poor Britain Chapter 6. Offshoring: Corporate, Financial and Tax Crime Chapter 7. Capturing the State: Corruption, Outsourcing, Privatization and Austerity Chapter 8. Poor Crime: Economic, Welfare and Policy Cycles Part III. Connecting Rich and Poor Crime Chapter 9. Coding Capital: Protecting the Rich and Punishing the Poor Chapter 10. Conclusion: ‘There’s one law for the rich and another for the poor’

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Book SynopsisHow does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation?The mainstream feminist movement has proposed "locking up the bad men," and called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of color, poor people, and LGBTQ people.In this scintillating, comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to describe how the criminal justice system hurts women. Considering the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration. With a new foreword by Silvia Federici.Trade ReviewWith a new foreword by Silvia Federici, this volume makes a feminist case for the abolition of the prison system as we have known it. Ricordeau deftly explores the harms of incarceration and the path to a more just system for all. -- Karla Strand, Best Books of August 2023 * Ms. Magazine *Professor Ricordeau's analysis of the absurdities of the system and the sizable obstacles facing those determined to find meaningful solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice. -- Bill Littlefield * The Arts Fuse *Do prisons ever really keep women safe? For a long time, mainstream feminism has been dominated by the view that bad men should simply be locked away. But, as activist and scholar Gwendola Ricordeau argues, this carceral approach has never made women safer: instead, it only makes society's most marginalized suffer. Here, she proposes a bolder, more radical vision. * Dazed *Gwenola Ricordeau's compelling new book, Free Them All, builds a contemporary case for the intersections between feminism and prison abolition, dismantling the notion that the criminalization of violence against women benefits or protects women. Ricordeau argues that our penal system protects no one, is driven by profit, and disproportionately harms victims of violence, poor people, people of color, and LGBTQ people.the translation work of Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge is precise and lucid throughout. -- Rachel DeWoskin * LIBER *Table of ContentsPreface by Silvia FedericiIntroduction: My Heart Has Its ReasonsCh 1: Prison AbolitionCh 2: The Victimization of Women and their Treatment by the Penal SystemCh 3: Women in the Legal SystemCh 4: Women at the Doors of PrisonsCh 5: Prison Abolition and FeminismCh 6: Self-Emancipation from Prisons and the Building of Autonomy

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Book SynopsisIntroducing nuanced and rich data around the growing interest in desistance and what leads someone to move away from crime, this book explores the ongoing and individual desistance journeys of ex-offenders during re-integration into society. Through in-depth interviews and his own lived experiences as a prisoner, the author highlights the importance of Higher Education in the desistance process as a conduit for change and rehabilitation. He explores the complex life process of the ex-offender, investigating the introspective and existential experiences that lead individuals towards an ongoing desistance journey in which they re-evaluate their sense of selves and develop new identities. Arguing that in the current criminal justice system the focus on crime overshadows the more complex and unending process of desistance, the author showcases how the system provides no formal rite of passage for ex-offenders attempting to re-integrate into society. In response to this, this book synthesises and critically reviews desistance theory as it has emerged within contemporary criminology, and offers an opportunity for readers to engage with the complexities of the lives analysed in this research.Trade ReviewDavid Honeywell’s book provides a uniquely critical and reflective exploration of desistance which is both experientially-grounded and research-informed. Written in a direct, engaging and challenging style, it deserves to be widely read by scholars, students and practitioners — indeed by anyone and everyone concerned both with supporting desistance from crime and with changing how we do justice. This book is full of voices we need to hear and heed, not least the author's. -- Professor Fergus McNeill, University of GlasgowDesistance theory has always benefitted from both the autobiographical perspectives of former prisoners as well as systematic academic study, yet in this fascinating new work, David Honeywell combines both of these sources of expertise, drawing on his own lived experience and rigorous research. The intersection of the two makes for a challenging, original and ground-breaking work and a model for keeping criminological research relevant and vibrant. -- Professor Shadd Maruna, Queen's University BelfastIn one of the finest books ever written about imprisonment, Men in Prison, Victor Serge declares “A victory over jail is a great victory”. In this book David Honeywell follows Serge to present his own personal victory and those of others who have emerged from imprisonment and made their way through a university education. These remarkable journeys from institutions at the base of society to those nearer its top are gathered as evidence of the complications of desistance. Dr Honeywell offers the reader rare insights drawn from his own incarceration and his subsequent contributions to convict criminology. Like Serge, Honeywell takes his own prison experience and combines it with others into a particularly vivid and triumphant account of lives that prison did not destroy. Share his victory and theirs when you read this book. -- Dr Rod Earl, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing desistance through the lived experienceChapter 2. The Ambiguities of Institutions Chapter 3. The Pains of Desistance Chapter 4. Shared Narratives and Storytelling Chapter 5. Negotiating Identities Chapter 6. Concluding Thoughts

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Book SynopsisOne of the few real self-protection guides on the market today, this book will teach you first and foremost how to avoid violent situations. But should you find yourself in one, it will also show you how to control yourself and your emotions so you can function on a physical level to defend yourself.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a concise and up-to-date account of crime prevention theory, practice and research in a form designed to be accessible and interesting to both students and practitioners. Readers will be equipped to think in an informed and critical way about what has been and might be done in practice to prevent crime at local and national levels. What is distinctive in the approach is the emphasis on crime reduction mechanisms, how they may be activated and the intended and unintended patterns of outcome produced. Each of chapters two to five takes this as its organizing principle. The key aim is to clearly convey ideas, arguments and evidence as simply as possible whilst doing justice to the material available.Trade Review"'This book is based on Nick Tilley's many years of experience in the crime prevention field. It is a must for those coming fresh to the challenges of crime reduction-both the academic and practitioner. It is written in Nick's easily accessible style but covers some complex issues. I can certainly recommend it.' Professor Gloria Laycock (UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science)"Table of Contents1. Introduction: What's to be Done? 2. Criminal Justice Measures and Mechanisms 3. Individual Measures and Mechanisms 4. Social Measures and Mechanisms 5. Situational Measures and Mechanisms 6. Implementation 7. Evaluation 8. Conclusion: What's to be Done to Improve Crime Prevention? Annex: Norman Storey's Tale (1946 – 2008)

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Book SynopsisKey Readings in Criminology provides a comprehensive single-volume collection of readings in criminology. It provides students with convenient access to a broad range of excerpts (over 150 readings) from original criminological texts and key articles, and is designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with the same author's textbook, Criminology.This volume can be used in a number of ways in support of the study of criminology: as a source of both ‘key’ and supplementary reading for lectures; as the basis for organized reading in advance of seminars and tutorials; as the basis for classroom discussion and analysis; as a broad source of reading for exam revision; in addition it provides students with access to a broad range of materials with which to follow up their reading of their main textbook; it includes readings that include more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues, as well as excerpts from criminological classics; it also introduces students not only to criminological argument and debate, but also encourages them to read primary as well as secondary or summary sources. Trade Review'... by far the most comprehensive, contemporary and wide-ranging reader on the market ... I have no doubt that it will prove very successful indeed.' – Dave Edwards, London Metropolitan University'... it's a terrific collection and nothing nearly as good exists elsewhere.' – Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley'A lot of criminology for little money. It contains so many classics we want our students to read anyway, that it is fair to say it is an excellent buy for anyone studying criminology' – Professor Renvan Swaaningen, Erasmus University, RotterdamTable of Contents1. Understanding Crime and Criminology 2. Crime and Punishment in History 3. Crime Data and Crime Trends 4. Crime and the Media 5. Classicism and Positivism 6. Biological Positivism 7. Psychological Positivism 8. Durkheim, Anomie and Strain 9. The Chicago School: Culture and Subcultures 10. Interactionism and Labelling Theory 11. Control Theories 12. Radical and Critical Criminology 13. Left and Right Realism 14. Contemporary Classicism 15. Feminist Criminology 16. Late Modernity, Governmentality and Risk 17 .Victims, Victimization and Victimology 18. White-Collar and Corporate Crime 19. Organised Crime 20. Violent and Property Crime 21. Drugs and Alcohol 22. Penology and Punishment 23. Understanding Criminal Justice 24. Crime Prevention and Community Safety 25. The Police and Policing 26. Criminal Courts and the Court Process 27. Sentencing and Non-Custodial Penalties 28. Prisons and Imprisonment 29. Youth Crime and Youth Justice 30. Restorative Justice 31. Race, Crime and Justice 32. Gender, Crime and Justice 33. Criminal and Forensic Psychology 34. Globalisation, Terrorism and Human Rights 35. Doing Criminological Research

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Book SynopsisThe study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing on fragmented incidents which provide only a partial picture. This is an accessible text which clarifies the crucial theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of criminal careers. It focuses on some major longitudinal studies discussing the onset, persistence, desistance and the duration of a criminal career. The important topics of prediction, risk and specialisation are addressed. The challenging question of 'When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders?' points a way forward. The book concludes by proposing an even more ambitious approach to the topic of criminal careers.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Great Debate: Competing Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues 3. The Great Solution? The Major Longitudinal Studies 4. When Does It All Start? The Onset of a Criminal Career 5. How Long Does It Last? Persistence, Desistence and the Duration of a Criminal Career 6. Specialisation 7. Dangerousness - Prediction and Risk 8. When Do Ex-offenders Become Like Non-offenders? 9. What's Wrong With Criminal Careers? Moving Forward

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Book SynopsisPro-social modelling refers to the process by which the worker acts as a good motivating role model in order to bring out the best in people. The worker engages the client in an empathetic relationship within which they actively reinforce pro-social behaviour and attitudes and discourage anti-social behaviour and attitudes. It has come to be recognized as fundamental to effective work with offenders in the Probation Service, Youth Justice and the Prison Service. It is also equally relevant in other fields such social work, youth work, health care, education, management and parenting. This updated and expanded new edition builds upon the highly successful first edition to provide an accessible guide to what pro-social practice is and how to do it, offering support and practical guidance for managers and practitioners seeking to implement and develop pro-social practice. It has been updated throughout, drawing on a wide range of evidence to relate theory to practice. It includes a wholly new chapter containing five case studies showing pro-social modelling being used in a police force, a prison, an Approved Premise, an educational establishment, and within community supervision Key areas of guidance include:Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Developing Empathetic Relationships and Working in a Solution-focused way 3. Exploring the Legitimate use of Authority: Roles, Rules, Values, Expectations and Rewards 4. Assertive Interactions and Pro-social Feedback 5. Motivating the Unwilling Client 6. Practical ways of Helping People to Change 7. Taking a Systematic, Pro-social, Collaborative Approach to Problem Solving 8. Responding to Individual Need and Diversity 9. Being a Pro-social Manager: Becoming a Pro-social Organisation 10. Pro-social Modelling in Practice Appendices: Exercises to Develop and Embed Pro-social Modelling in Teams A. Pro-social Audit of the Workplace B. Action Planning Using the Pro-social Audit C. Rewards, Sanctions and Values D. Pro-social Modelling: Assessment of Indicidual Practice E. Working Pro-socially Together: Critical Incident Analysis

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Book SynopsisPro-social modelling refers to the process by which the worker acts as a good motivating role model in order to bring out the best in people. The worker engages the client in an empathetic relationship within which they actively reinforce pro-social behaviour and attitudes and discourage anti-social behaviour and attitudes. It has come to be recognized as fundamental to effective work with offenders in the Probation Service, Youth Justice and the Prison Service. It is also equally relevant in other fields such social work, youth work, health care, education, management and parenting. This updated and expanded new edition builds upon the highly successful first edition to provide an accessible guide to what pro-social practice is and how to do it, offering support and practical guidance for managers and practitioners seeking to implement and develop pro-social practice. It has been updated throughout, drawing on a wide range of evidence to relate theory to practice. It includes a wholly new chapter containing five case studies showing pro-social modelling being used in a police force, a prison, an Approved Premise, an educational establishment, and within community supervision Key areas of guidance include:Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Developing Empathetic Relationships and Working in a Solution-focused way 3. Exploring the Legitimate use of Authority: Roles, Rules, Values, Expectations and Rewards 4. Assertive Interactions and Pro-social Feedback 5. Motivating the Unwilling Client 6. Practical ways of Helping People to Change 7. Taking a Systematic, Pro-social, Collaborative Approach to Problem Solving 8. Responding to Individual Need and Diversity 9. Being a Pro-social Manager: Becoming a Pro-social Organisation 10. Pro-social Modelling in Practice Appendices: Exercises to Develop and Embed Pro-social Modelling in Teams A. Pro-social Audit of the Workplace B. Action Planning Using the Pro-social Audit C. Rewards, Sanctions and Values D. Pro-social Modelling: Assessment of Indicidual Practice E. Working Pro-socially Together: Critical Incident Analysis

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Book SynopsisIn 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Säter, Sweden's equivalent of Broadmoor, and began a course of psychotherapy and psychoactive drugs. During the therapy, he began to recover memories so vicious and traumatic that he had repressed them: sickening scenes of childhood abuse, incest and torture, which led to a series of brutal murders in his adult years. He eventually confessed to raping, killing and even eating more than 30 victims. Embracing the process of self-discovery, he took on a new name: Thomas Quick. He was brought to trial and convicted of eight of the murders. In 2008, his confessions were proven to be entirely fabricated, and every single conviction was overturned. In this gripping book, Dan Josefsson uncovers the tangled web of deceptions and delusions that emerged within the Quick team. He reveals how a sick prisoner and mental patient, addled with prescription drugs and desperate for validation, allowed himself to become a case study for a sect-like group of therapists who practiced the controversial method of 'recovered' memory therapy. The group's leader, psychoanalyst Margit Norell, hoped that her vast study of Thomas Quick would make history... And the more lies Quick told, the better he was treated: the supposedly most dangerous serial killer and sexual predator in Sweden was practically free to come and go as he wanted. This is a study of psychoanalytic ambition and delusion, and the scandalous miscarriage of justice that it led to, written by one of Sweden's foremost investigative journalists.

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Book Synopsis"A remarkable, indispensable book" - Sunday Telegraph In 1993 toddler James Bulger was beaten to death by two ten-year-old-boys. In the wake of this brutal crime, came one of the most public and shocking trials in living memory. Written in Morrison's supple, beautiful prose As If is a passionate, first-hand testimony of the Bulger case. It is a book about the nature of children, the meaning of childhood innocence and the state of the world we live in today.Trade ReviewA remarkable, indispensable book * Sunday Telegraph *Blake Morrison attended the trial and has written a lyrical personal and intensely painful account of what he heard and felt... This is an important, and, in the true sense of the word, dreadful book. -- Beryl Bainbridge * Evening Standard *Morrison's rich, deep humanity bestows upon this book a rare honesty of tone and of thought which the subject hugely deserves... out of his anxiety and compassion, he has produced a book which is both brave and bathed in mature wisdom. -- Brian Masters * Mail on Sunday *This is a brave book, full of compassion and pity not just for the obvious people - the tiny victim, his parents - but for everyone involved, and underlying the struggle to discover 'why' is a compassion too for the state of childhood both remembered and observed. Beautifully written. -- Margaret Foster * Literary Review *As If is the mature, considered and very personal response of one man to a tragic act. It is what our media should have given us... Morrison's voice is, as ever, eloquent with both passion and intelligence. -- A.L. Kennedy * Scotsman *Very finely written... supple, densely allusive, glittering prose. -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Sunday Times *Morrison brings to the case an uneasy conscience which insists that nothing is black and white... he exposes the inability of an adult tribunal to deal with such young defendants. -- Joan Smith * Financial Times *Blake Morrison is interested in the fundamental question of why the two young boys killed another child... he has contributed greatly to the debate and his thought-provoking book should be read by all those who have a serious interest in the vital process of reform. * The Times *

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Book SynopsisThis work examines the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour. It contains the stories of inmates' schooldays told in their own words as they try to answer the question "could anything have been done to prevent you being in custody now?" The book ends with suggestions on action schools might take towards redressing social, cultural and educational disadvantage and intervening to help limit future offending behaviour.Trade Review'If you are in any doubt about the links between poor education, crime and recidivism, read it':Marcel Berlins The Guardian.'This book is of considerable public importance on a subject which calls for attention. I believe that in prison life the status of education needs to be raised for the high percentage of offenders who have failed at school and come from broken families, and are soon to be discharged into the community':Sir Stephen Tumim, former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

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Book SynopsisGeese Theatre UK was formed in 1987 and is renowned across the criminal justice field. Members of the company devise and perform issue-based plays and conduct workshops and training in prisons, young offender institutions, probation centres and related settings. The company has worked in virtually every prison and each probation area in the UK and Ireland - and also works with youth offending teams. The "Geese Theatre Handbook" explains the thinking behind the company's approach to applied drama with offenders and people at risk of offending, including young people. It also contains over 100 exercises with explanations, instructions and suggestions to help practitioners develop their own style and approach. The materials can be readily adapted to other settings including conflict resolution, restorative justice and interpersonal skills training.The handbook is a key resource for: Offending behaviour groupworkers; Probation officers; Youth workers; Youth offending teams; Prison officers; Social workers; Criminologists; Community workers; Forensic psychologists; Psychotherapists; Community theatre workers and actors; Drama teachers; Drama-in-education and theatre-in-education practitioners; Drama therapists and other creative arts therapists; Adventure therapists; Group and individual therapists and counsellors; Mental health professionals; Psychodramatists; Sociodramatists; Professional team builders; Team supervisors; Family therapists; Staff training and development officers; Conflict resolution workers; And special needs workers and teachers.Trade Review'A generous book [which] provides a treasure chest of games and exercise for any group setting ... a wealth of food for thought ... for trainers of all kinds ... an invaluable addition to the Waterside list'Criminal Justice Matters'An invaluable resource'Prison Service News'Fascinating ... Excellent ... If you're involved with offenders or other risk groups, buy it'The Magistrate'An absolute treasure trove for people who work with groups - in mental health, schools, training, social work - wherever'Mental Health Today

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Book SynopsisSituational crime prevention and problem-oriented policing (POP) have made rapid progress during the past two decades. But these two related approaches have in the past neglected implementation, the stage when prevention measures are put into practice. The contributing authors to this volume are all researchers with a long-standing interest in crime prevention, who have also been directly involved in implementing situational or problem-oriented projects. Their chapters provide both practical guidance and general principles concerning how to get the most out of crime prevention projects. Chapter topics include: lessons derived from POP projects; the role of project management in community safety initiatives; conflicts and tensions in implementing crime reduction measures; a case study of POP implementation without self-interest; how central agencies should support local programs; mistaking tactics for strategy in crime reduction initiatives; lessons from England on success and failure; mindsets, set minds and implementation; and, guidance and good practice in crime prevention.Trade Review'This is an important book for everyone who shares the responsibility for reducing crime and preserving safety in the community...give[s] us an insight into the possibilities and challenges linked to the implementation of new working methods in crime prevention' From the Foreword by Ingelin Killengreen, National Police Commissioner of NorwayTable of ContentsImplementing crime prevention: Lessons learned from problem-oriented policing projects (Scott); The role of project management in implementing community safety initiatives (Brown); Implementing crime reduction measures: Conflicts and tensions (G Laycock); What is there to gain? A case study in implementing without self-interest. (J Knutsson); Joining up the pieces. What central agencies need to do to support effective local crime prevention. (R Homel); Not seeing the wood for the trees: Mistaking tactics for strategy in crime reduction initiatives (M Hough); Implementation failure and success: Some lessons from England (K Bowers and S Johnson); Mindsets, set minds and implementation (K Pease); Guidance and good practice in crime prevention (N Tilley).

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as witches, hysterics, or femmes fatales . . . That is, either evil or out of control. Corina Rojas, Rosa Faundez, Carolina Geel and Teresa Alfaro all committed murder. Their crimes not only led to substantial court decisions, but gave rise to multiple novels, poems, short stories, paintings, plays, songs and films, produced and reproduced throughout the last century. In When Women Kill, we are provided with timelines of events leading up to and following their killings, their apprehension by the authorities, their trials and their representation in the media throughout and following the judicial process. Running in parallel with this often horrifying testimony are the diaries kept by Trabucco Zeran while she worked on her research, addressing the obstacles and dilemmas she encountered as she tackled this discomfiting yet necessary project.Trade Review'Throughout [When Women Kill], the language is both precise and evocative, and the author's evaluation of the various circumstances is readable, trenchant, and intersectional. A formally inventive, lyrical, feminist analysis of Chile's famous female murderers.' Kirkus Reviews, starred review ---- 'Exquisitely translated by Sophie Hughes, When Women Kill conveys the wonder of a writer determined to uncover the truth about factual events by using story.' Megan Bradbury, Times Literary Supplement ---- 'This book fascinates, illuminates and horrifies in equal measure ... It's an elegant examination of how the act of murder uncovers truths society never wants to confront.' Neil Mackay Herald Scotland ---- 'Are we as women in any way implicated by these four murderers? . . . In its portrait of the media, in the echo from the streets, in the judicial process and sentence of each of the four female killers here, we recognise the judgment of society itself, from which we cannot escape.' Nona Fernandez, La Tercera ---- 'When Women Kill is an entertaining, intelligent and well-written book that, in the process of deconstructing machismo, reflects on the power of story - be it through literature, court proceedings, news, articles, or photos - and its ability to intervene in our lives.' Marta Sanz, El Pais ---- 'When Women Kill is a magnificent work of creative nonfiction: provocative, intelligent, and moving. In it, Alia Trabucco Zeran makes use of her talents as a writer and researcher to reconstruct the complex stories of four women accused of violent crimes in the twentieth century. The result is a masterful and pertinent account full of humanity and emotion.' Fernanda Melchor ---- 'This brilliant work of essayistic nonfiction reveals forcefully and convincingly the rhetorical operations used by the patriarchy.' Lina Meruane ---- 'Tales of love and hate, exposed with a forensic and lyrical power that is rare, brilliant and deeply affecting.' Philippe Sands

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Book SynopsisChapter “Predictive Policing in 2025: A Scenario” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsForeword; Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew CBE QC.- Rethinking Criminal Justice in Cyberspace: The EU E-evidence framework as a new model of cross-border cooperation in criminal matters; O. Sallavaci.- Policing in the era of AI and Smart Societies: austerity; legitimacy and blurring the line of consent; M. Manning, S.Agnew.- Behavioral Analytics; A Preventative Means for the Future of Policing; A. Daneshkhah et al.- Securing Transparency and Governance of Organ Supply Chain Through Blockchain; N. Chavez et al.- IoT and cloud forensic investigation guidelines; I. Mitchell et al.- Algorithms can predict domestic abuse, but should we let them?; M. Bland.- Tackling teen sexting - policing challenges when society and technology outpace legislation; E. Bond, A. Phippen.- Image Recognition in Child Sexual Exploitation Material - Capabilities, Ethics and Rights; A. Phippen, E. Bond.- Predictive policing in 2025: A scenario; K. Macnish et al.- Patterns in Policing; P. Cochrane, M.P. Pfeiffer.- Proposed Forensic Guidelines for the Investigation of Fake News; N. Omezi, H. Jahankhani.- Current Challenges of Modern-Day Domestic Abuse; J. Mayhew, H. Jahankhani.

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Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band vereint aktuelle, interdisziplinäre Forschungen, welche sich im Kern mit dem Handeln der Polizei als soziales Phänomen beschäftigen. In diesem Zusammenhang greifen die Autoren/innen auch Fragen nach den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen polizeilichen Handelns sowie Einflüssen polizeilicher Praktiken auf Ausgestaltungen des Rechts auf. Ziel des Buches ist es, einen breiten Überblick über die hiesige, im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern immer noch recht rudimentär aufgestellte Polizeiforschung zu geben. Die Zusammenstellung praxisorientierter Perspektiven verfolgt dabei auch den Zweck, einen Baustein für eine Theorie der Praxis der Polizei zu liefern. Table of ContentsKontrolle und Informationsbeschaffung.- Vorfeldverlagerung.- Gewalterfahrungen und Gewaltanwendung.- Praktiken polizeilichen Handelns.

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Book SynopsisThe symposium Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom held in Reinhausen, 2002, formed the basis of this publication. Occasioned by the social, political and mass media discourses after the bombings of New York''s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, an interdisciplinary group of scholars came together to explore the connotations and implications of the term sleeper. The biographies of terrorist perpetrators are but one of many permutations of sleeper-like phenomena in late modern polities. Clandestine operatives of the state are sleepers, and both willing and unwilling victims of terrorism are discursively transformed from sleepers into martyrs. Starting with analyses of the discourses about sleepers in Part I-their historical antecedents, narrative employment, and semantic differentiation-Part II turns to the hidden or unspoken of aspects of the state, the challenge of fundamentalist terrorism to the modern political project and the tensions between neighbourly discourse, public display and the state. Part III juxtaposes changing depictions of Shiite martyrdom with the violence done to the term martyr within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Part IV, cultural secrets encoded in memorials and public silences in academic discourse are addressed. The different cases assembled offer comparative materials and perspectives from the USA, France, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Iran, Israel, Istria and Sweden.

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Book SynopsisAt the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In The Search for Justice, a collection of writers and activists look to history and contemporary politics to examine the root causes of sexual violence in Sri Lanka. Offering an analysis of the polarizations created around ethnic and linguistic identities during the war years and an examination of the routine violence toward women, the authors argue powerfully that Sri Lankan women must not be treated only as victims, but as potential and actual agents of change. Edited by Kumari Jayawardena and Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, the volume points to a hitherto unaddressed aspect of sexual violence: that of the structures and systems that enable impunity on the part of perpetrators. Whether they are security personnel and paramilitary forces, members of armed groups and gangs, local politicians and police, or, often, ordinary citizens including close family members, perpetrators operate with impunity. The Search for Justice is a compelling new installment in the Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia.

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