Crime and criminology Books

Book SynopsisAmong a wealth of topics this book looks at the Rule of Law, the development of the criminal courts, police forces, jury, justices of the peace and individual crimes and punishments. It locates all the iconic events of criminal justice history and law reform within a wider background and context - demonstrating a wealth and depth of knowledge.Trade Review'Highly recommended': Choice (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries).'This is a good book from a well-respected publishing house. [It] could helpfully form part of the required reading on the programmes which develop the criminal justice system's senior managers, as well as occupying a place on the bookshelves of many other people': Prison Service Journal. 'It would be well if every criminal lawyer had a copy of this book, so rich in information and detail, but at the very least every student entering law school should have a copy and read it; thus would the intricacies of modern criminal justice law make sense. There is a rich bibliography and a comprehensive index, and at a cost of a few gallons of petrol it is a fantastic bargain': Criminal Law and Justice Weekly. 'I found this provided a comprehensive and very helpful and informative review of the history of criminal justice and will be adopting this book and placing it on the reading list for my 2nd year Justice Module students on the BA Hons in Youth Studies course that I teach': David Ellicott, Nottingham Trent University. 'Provides a comprehensive historical account of a number of different areas of criminal justice': Helen Poole, Coventry UniversityTable of Contents* Origins of Criminal Justice in Anglo-Saxon England * Saxon Dooms - Our Early Laws * The Norman Influence & The Angevin Legacy * Criminal Law In Medieval & Early Modern England * The Common Law in Danger * The Commonwealth * The Whig Supremacy and Adversary Trial * The Jury in the Eighteenth Century * Punishment & Prisons * Nineteenth Century Crime & Policing * Victorian Images * A Century of Criminal Law Reform * Criminal Incapacity * A Revolution in Procedure * Early Twentieth Century * Improvement After World War II * Twenty-First Century Regression? * The Advent of Restorative Justice * Conclusion * Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDavid Wilson is one of the UK's best-known and most innovative criminologists. This thought-provoking book stems from the author's parallel experiences in the public eye - as a reporter for Sky News and contributor to BBC, ITV and both national and local newspapers and magazines, especially in relation to high profile cases and fast-moving events in the field of crime and punishment. 'Looking for Laura' provides a window through which to appreciate the media pressures that this can create even for a professor in this field and former prison governor with considerable experience of working with offenders who hit the headlines. The book also looks at the way in which crime is packaged and presented for consumption by a news-hungry public. By considering a range of media situations in which the author has been involved, it provides an absorbing context within which to understand the still relatively new field of public criminology. It has a Foreword by the award-winning investigative journalist Donal MacIntyreTrade Review'This significant contribution to criminological studies offers a text where both scholar and common reader can understand the issues regarding crime reporting and society... while the term "public criminology" has recently gained popularity, it can convincingly be argued that Wilson was a public criminologist before it was in vogue': Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 'Full of observations and insights that reward careful reading, but more than a source of reflection, it is also an attempt to inspire, incite and provoke criminologists into action': Prison Service Journal 'A provocative, readable and interesting text that straddles several areas of criminological theory and specialism, but strikes first and foremost as a stimulating read and a book which makes you think more about public criminology. What it should be and whether and how it should be undertaken. For that reason it should be one of those at the forefront of debate on academic criminology's function and purpose and I hope it enjoys a sufficient readership and acts to re-invigorate and stimulate future debates about the role and function of "public criminology"': Probation Journal 'An excellent addition for those students studying subjects with a focus on cultural criminology. An interesting and engrossing text and an excellent addition for the discipline': Paul Taylor, University of Chester 'An inspiring and intelligent read': Donal MacIntyre (from the Foreword). As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. - Children, the Internet and the Crime Figures 2. - Serial Killer Thrillers 3. - The Chief Constable - The Tale of a Criminal Justice Professional 4. - Celebrity Cons - Bronson, Banged Up and Bad Girls 5. - Serial Killers - Now You See Them, Now You Don't 6. - The Righteous Slaughter of Some Shootings 7. - The Offender Profiler 8. - Explaining OrdinaryA" Murder and Murder Investigations Postscript A Guide to Further Reading and Other References . Index

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Book SynopsisThis open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power model should be modified and supplemented, and propose that we consider violence in terms of psychological supremacy, rather than in terms of femininity and masculinity. Men's Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships will appeal to students and scholars across a range of areas including criminology, sociology and family violence, and gender studies.Table of Contents1. Violence Against Men in Intimate Relationships.- 2. Method and Analysis.- 3. Prevalence Studies from the Nordic Countries.- 4. Men's Experience of Intimate Partner Violence.- 5. Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence. - 6. Men Who Are Subjected to Sexual Abuse. - 7. Experience with Support Agencies. - 8. The Need to Develop Established Theory of Partner Violence Further.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices. It examines factors that have underpinned the emergence and occurrence of racial and religious hate crime and the approaches and policies that have been pursued by the state, especially the criminal justice system, to combat this problem. Crucially, it also provides insight into the challenges that are faced in the contemporary period (especially in the wake of the 2016 EU referendum) in combatting hate crime. Additionally the book briefly considers the importance of the rhetoric of the Trump campaign and the administration's early policies to the contemporary manifestations of racial and religious hate crime.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 Racism and hate crime Chapter 2 Immigration control and racially motivated hatred 1900 - to the early 1960s Chapter 3 Racially motivated discrimination, extremist rhetoric and immigration control 1960 - to the early 1980s Chapter 4 Policing, social disorder and responding to racially motivated offending in the 1980s and 1990s Chapter 5 Legislating against racially aggravated offending: from the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to the Macpherson Report Chapter 6 Islamophobia and the social cohesion agenda Chapter 7 Contemporary political extremism Chapter 8 The Response to Hate Crime: From 2010 – Brexit Chapter 9 Conclusion: Hate crime - Brexit and beyond. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime. The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society posits that the phenomenon is, in part, because we have all become consumers of the sublime: an intense and strongly ambiguous emotion which is increasingly commodified. Through the experience of violence and the sense of disorientation that accompanies it, we obsessively seek out moments of intensified existence. Equally, crime continues to speak to the depths of the collective unconscious, questioning us about our transience and the model of society we wish to live in. Binik proposes that this is why the reaction to violence has become a tool with which to express and take ownership of a desire for social cohesion. This book uses interviews with viewers, dark tourists, collectors and others to further interrogate this social trend. Many of these are participants in the four key case studies explored within the study: emotional pathways while watching a true-crime TV series, the trend of dark tourism, murderabilia collecting and the fanaticism of (and for) Anders Breivik. This book seeks to answer one of the most pressing cultural trends of the modern age and fill in a gap in the criminological literature on the subject. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. When crime is sublime2.1 “Sympathy for the (d)evil”: the fascination with crime 2.2 Targeting the phenomenon: from “expulsion narrative” to “proximity narrative”2.3 A psycho-social approach: for a cultural criminology of emotions 2.4 The emotions involved in fascination with crime: the sublime, the uncanny, the state of awe2.4.1. “On The Sublime”: violence as unrepresentable wound2.4.2. Edmund Burke’ s enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful 2.4.3. From terror to morals: Kant’s sublime2.4.4. Losing oneself is wonderful: uncanny crime2.4.5. Awe-ful moments2.5 Potential connections: at the roots of a single emotional experience 2.5.1. The sense of vastness and power when a boundary is crossed2.5.1.1. The limit by definition: death2.5.1.2. The limits from sacred to profane and Durkheim’s effervescence2.5.1.3. The confines between the Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle 2.5.2. Undecipherability and the need for accommodation3. Effervescent and ready for use: the sublime and other emotions in the Carnival of crime 3.1. Little Red Riding Hood3.2. The sublime, now3.3. The liminal experience and the Carnival of crime3.4. The carnivalesque and crime, now3.5. A possible bifurcation in thought: consumption and effervescence3.5.1. Crime consumption, chillness and enjoyment 3.5.1.1 Consuming crime3.5.1.2. Consumption: from psychoanalysis to sociology 3.5.2. Crime at the center of collective warm and Dyonisiac effervescence3.5.2.1. Violence from sacred to profane3.5.2.2. The sacredness of effervescence: Bataille and Bastide3.5.2.3. The return of Dionysus: Michel Maffesoli3.5. A few clarifications4. In the cultural criminology hall of mirrors4.1. The cultural diamond and fascination with crime 4.2.The place of emotions (and the sublime) in culture4.3. Methodological choices4.4. The dual carnival metaphor and the bond between the social world and cultural objects4.5. Research techniques or “go out and get your hands dirty in real research”5. From sublime to resentment: emotional pathways watching crime on television5.1. Case study: the “Quarto Grado” TV series5.2. The trajectory5.3. The morbid blend of attraction and repulsion5.4. The sense of vastness and power when a boundary is crossed 5.4.1. “Am I capable of it too?”5.4.2. “Look how easy is to die!”5.5 Undecipherability and the need for accommodation 5.6. Sublime. Use instruction5.7. The commodification of the sublime 5.7.1. Selecting and framing crime5.7.2. The aestheticization of violence and visual spectacle5.7.3. Proximity, when the monster is at home5.7.4. The melding of real life and fiction5.7.5. The indeterminate nature of the cold case5.8. An effervescent resentment 5.8.1. Collective effervescence and the process as ritual 5.8.2. The Imaginary, fragile rituals and perpetual activation5.8.3. From sublime to resentment6. In the wild land in search of a story: dark tourism6.1. Dark tourism and its nuances6.2. The research6.3. The sense of vastness and power when a boundary is crossed 6.3.1. Death 6.3.2. The eagle and the wild boar: the authentic traces of a history6.4. Undecipherability and the need for accommodation6.5. The feeling rules 6.5.1. Time 6.5.2. Strong stories 6.6. Breaking the feeling rules, playing at voyeurism6.7. Telling stories as a job (or the commodification of the sublime)6.8. Dark tourism and emotional communities7. “This is a taboo business” : the murderabilia market from sacred to profane7.1. Can evil be bought? 7.2. “This is a taboo business”: the sacred side of murderabilia collecting7.3.On containment attempts: from feeling rules to the law7.3.1. That obstinate search7.3.2. Son of Sam 7.3.3. Goodfellas7.3.4. Sinatra Junior7.3.5. How to hinder the intermediaries: the California model and Senator Cornyn7.4. A well rooted evil8. Attacks or fireworks? The spectacularisation of the Anders Breivik massacre8.1. A performer8.2. Materials for a successful performance 8.2.1. Good and bad according to Breivik8.2.2. A group of lone wolves8.2.3. Do it Yourself8.2.4. Poses to consume8.3. A performative justice8.4. Conclusions 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisCombining theory with practical application, this seminal introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice integrates the latest research with emerging problems and trends in an overview of the field. Now in its sixth edition, this book features new interviews and discussions with child care professionals and juvenile justice practitioners on their experiences translating theory to practice. It addresses recent changes in the characteristics of delinquents alongside changes in laws and the rise of social media and smartphones. It includes a new chapter of international perspectives on juvenile justice and delinquency. Incorporated throughout is consideration of the mental health and special needs of youth in the juvenile justice system, as well as at-risk and non-fault children as victims.With attention to both quantitative and qualitative findings, this clear and comprehensive text will be useful for students of criminology, criminal justice, sociology and those interested in working with at-risk youth.Table of ContentsPart I. Definitions, Scope and Trends in Juvenile Delinquency.- 1. The Transition of Child to Adult.- 2. Past and Current Biosocial Perspectives on Delinquency Causation.- 3. Social-Psychological Theories of Delinquency.- 4. Social Organizational Perspectives on Delinquency Causation.- 5. Perspectives on the Interpersonal Relationships in the Family.- 6. Perspectives on Gangs and Peer Group Influences Pertaining to Delinquency Causation.- 7. Perspectives on Delinquency and Violence in the Schools.- Part II. Youth in the Juvenile Justice System.- 8. Laws and Court Cases Pertaining to Children: Offenders and victims.- 9. Perspectives on Children as Victims of Abuse and Neglect.- 10. The Police Role in Delinquency Prevention and Control.- 11. Processing the Juvenile Offender: Diversion, Informal Handling, and Special Dockets.- 12. The Juvenile Court Process.- 13. Probation and Community Based Programs.- 14. Perspectives on Juveniles Incarcerated in Secure Facilities.- 15. Parole and Community Supervision.- 16. Counseling and Treatment of Juvenile Offenders.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research. Field research can be a risky and dangerous journey where the line between safety and danger can be crossed in quick time, often with little warning. These risks manifest in diverse and novel ways. They can be physical and psychological, ephemeral and enduring. They can impact the researchers, participants, collaborators and interviewees. Indeed, they can condition the very foundation of our processes of knowledge production. Fieldwork is no small stakes game. Covering research from Afghanistan, Chad, DR Congo, Greece, the Horn of Africa, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Vietnam and Australia, each chapter highlights diverse, eclectic, raw and vulnerable narratives about risks experienced before, during and after the conduct of this research. This book is of great value to inexperienced and experienced fieldworkers alike. Trade Review“Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences is one of the most honest and courageous books on fieldwork I have read. … More than a must-read for field researchers, I hope these contributions beget more honesty and courage from similarly situated scholars, and in this way ease the sufferings and help in the struggle toward egalitarian knowledge production.” (Chester Antonino C. Arcilla, IQAS, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 53 (4), 2022)Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Collecting Stories, Nicholas Apoifis, Phillip Wadds, Susanne Schmeidl & Kim Spurway2. Sex In The Academy/Sex In The Field: Bodies Of Ethics In Activist Research, Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust3. Sitting With The Mess, Caroline Lenette4. Fear And Loathing In The Cross: Researching The Policing Of Nightlife In Sydney, Phillip Wadds5. Doing Critical Drugs Research: From Deconstructing To Encountering Risk, George Dertadian6. ‘I Hope Little Worms Die In Your Arse’: Fieldwork, Anarchists, Fascists, And Academic Snitches, Nick Apoifis7. Doing Elite Interviews In Feminist Research: Confessions Of A Born-Again Observationist, Louise Chappell8. Risking The Self: Vulnerability And Its Uses In Research, Tanya Jakimow9. Enter The Dragon: Coming Of Age As Blond, White, Female Researcher In Fragile Contexts, Susanne Schmeidl10. ‘If You Want To Know About Evil, Ask The Devil’: Research In Post-Conflict Countries, Kim Spurway11. Conclusion: Sharing Stories, Kim SpurwayIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to become familiar with the RStudio platform and tidyverse set of packages. This volume will help users master the fundamentals of the R programming language, providing tutorials in each chapter that lay out research questions and hypotheses centering around a real criminal justice dataset, such as data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, National Crime Victimization Survey, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, The Monitoring the Future Study, and The National Youth Survey. Users will also learn how to manipulate common sources of agency data, such as calls-for-service (CFS) data. The end of each chapter includes exercises that reinforce the R tutorial examples, designed to help master the software as well as to provide practice on statistical concepts, data analysis, and interpretation of results. The text can be used as a stand-alone guide to learning R or it can be used as a companion guide to an introductory statistics textbook, such as Basic Statistics in Criminal Justice (2020).Table of Contents1. Getting started.2. Managing your data.3. Data visualization.4. Spatiotemporal data visualization and basic crime analysis.5. Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency.6. Descriptive statistics: measures of dispersion.7. Statistical inference in criminal justice research.8. Defining the observed significance level of a test.9. Hypothesis testing using the binomial distribution.10. Chi-square: a test commonly used for nominal-level measures.11. The normal distribution and its application to tests of statistical significance.12. Comparing means in two samples.13. Analysis of variance.14. Measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables.15. Measuring association for interval data.16. Introduction to regression analysis.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology – that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture have a political basis. The book consists of eleven chapters and is divided into three sections. Section one considers the intersection of crime and capitalism in a range of contemporary cultural texts. Section two examines how various power systems influence the operation of the media in its role of reporting crime and holding the powerful to account. Section three considers how texts in a variety of formats are used to conduct politics, communicate politics and enact political decision making. Table of Contents1.​ Introduction2. ‘Grabbing and Keeping’: Deadwood—The Origin of Specie3. ‘Rosie’s Room’ and ‘Bullet’s Phone’: The Commodification of the Lost Girl in The Killing and Its Paratexts4. Noir Tourism and the Black Dahlia Murder5. Reporting Crime and Capitalism: Techniques of Neutralisation in a Corpus of Corporate Fraud News6. Think Tanks, News Sources and Neo-liberal News Discourse: Off-shoring Power and Influence7. Friends in High Places: Sexual Abuse, Power and the Corruptions of Jimmy Savile8. From Chopping Trees to Destroying Capitalism: A Social Etymology of Hacking9. The Loyalist Community of Northern Ireland: From Cultural Defenders to Subcultural Offenders? A Cultural Criminology Exploration10. Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process11. Save the Troll! UK Social Media Legislation and the Attack on Freedom of Speech

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Book SynopsisThis edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods. The accessibility, variety and wealth of data available online presents substantial opportunities for researchers from different disciplines to study cybercrimes and, more generally, human behavior in cyberspace. The unique and dynamic characteristics of cyberspace often demand cross-disciplinary and cross-national research endeavors, but disciplinary, cultural and legal differences can hinder the ability of researchers to collaborate. This work also provides a review of the ethics associated with the use of online data sources across the globe. The authors are drawn from multiple disciplines and nations, providing unique insights into the value and challenges evident in online data use for cybercrime scholarship. It is a key text for researchers at the upper undergraduate level and above.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Part I – Anita Lavorgna and Thomas J. Holt.- 2. Epistemologies of cyberspace: notes for interdisciplinary research, Anita Lavorgna.- 3. The how and why of cybercrime: the EU as a case study of the role of ideas, interests and institutions as drivers of a security-governance approach, Benjamin Farrand and Helena Carrapico.- 4. Programming the criminologist: developing cyber skills to investigate cybercrime, Ruth McAlister and Fabian Campbell-West.- 5. Profiling and predictions. Challenges in cybercrime research datafication, Bart Custers.- 6. Data-driven technologies in Justice Systems: Intersections of power, data configurations, and knowledge production, Pamela Ugwudike.- 7. Introduction to Part II, Anita Lavorgna and Thomas J. Holt.- 8. The challenges of empirically comparing cybercriminals and traditional offenders, Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg.- 9. Breaking the walls of silence: analyzing criminal investigations to improve our understanding of cybercrime – E. Rutger Leukfeldt and Edward R. Kleemans.- 10. Using digital open source and crowdsourced data in studies of deviance and crime, Rajeev V. Gundur, Mark Berry and Dean Taodang.- 11. Developing open-source databases from online sources to study online and offline phenomena, Emily Ann Greene-Colozzi, Joshua D. Freilich and Steven M. Chermak.- 12. Too much data? Opportunities and challenges of large datasets and cybercrime, Jack Hughes, Yi Ting Chua and Alice Hutchings.- 13. Use of Artificial Intelligence to support cybercrime research, Stuart E. Middleton.- 14. Honeypots for cybercrime research, Robert C. Perkins and C. Jordan Howell.- 15. Social and semantic online networks, Elena Pavan.- 16. Digital ethnography in cybercrime research: some notes from the virtual field, Nicholas Gibbs and Alexandra Hall.- 17. The meme is the method: examining the power of the image within extremist propaganda, Ashton Kingdon.- 18. Introduction to Part III, Anita Lavorgna and Thomas J. Holt.- 19. Researching cybercrime in the European Union: asking the right ethics questions, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo and Fernando Miró-Llinares.- 20. Ethical approaches to studying cybercrime: considerations, practice and experience in the United Kingdom, Brian Pickering, Silke Roth and Craig Webber.- 21. Conducting ethical research with online populations in the United States, Kacy Amory and George Burruss.- 22. Investigating the ethical boundaries for online research in Brazil, Felipe Cardoso Moreira de Oliveira.- 23. Ethics and internet-based cybercrime research in Australia, James Martin.- 24. Researching crime and deviance in Southeast Asia: challenges and ethics when using online data, Lennon Yao-Chung Chang and Souvik Mukherjee.- 25. The ethics of web crawling and web scraping in cybercrime research: navigating issues of consent, privacy and other potential harms associated with automated data collection, Russell Brewer, Bryce Westlake, Tahlia Hart and Omar Arauza.- 26. Does the institution have a plan for that? Researcher safety and the ethics of institutional responsibility, Ashley A. Mattheis and Ashton Kingdon.- 27 Engaging with incels: reflexivity, identity and the female cybercrime ethnographic researcher, Lisa Sugiura.- 28. Personal reflections on researching fraud: challenges surrounding the ethics of “doing”, Cassandra Cross.- 29. At the intersection of digital research and sexual violence: insights on gaining informed consent from vulnerable participants, Tully O’Neil.- 30. Concluding thoughts, Anita Lavorgna and Thomas J. Holt.

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Book SynopsisThis book represents a comprehensive collection of theoretical and empirical work at the nexus of clinical and forensic psychology written by world-renowned experts in the field. It is among the first books in the field to focus entirely on clinical psychological science applied to the understanding and treatment of offending. Part I addresses the main theoretical and clinical models used to explain and predict antisocial behavior, spanning biological, cognitive, experimental, individual differences, and interpersonal perspectives. Part II focuses on forms of psychopathology associated with an increased tendency to offend, with the emphasis on describing the clinical constructs most relevant for forensic psychology. Each chapter describes the clinical characteristics of one form of psychopathology, their assessment, their links with antisocial behavior, and treatment considerations. Part III focuses on different types of offense or offender groups as starting points. This perspective has relevance since many criminal justice and forensic mental health systems allocate offenders to interventions based on their index offense (or history of offenses). Finally, Part IV addresses the application of clinical psychology in the service of assessment and treatment in forensic settings. It includes the state of the art on diagnostic and risk assessment, as well as both widely used and recently developed interventions. This book is an excellent resource for students at both Bachelor’s and Master’s level, while also representing a comprehensive handbook for experienced researchers and practitioners.Table of ContentsSeries Editors PrefaceEditors Preface1. History of forensic psychology (Jacqueline Helfgott & Joslyn Wallenborn)PART 1: UNDERPINNINGS OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR2. Antisocial behavior prevention: Towards a developmental biopsychosocial perspective (René Carbonneau & Richard Tremblay)3. Cardiovascular Psychophysiology and Antisocial Behavior (Presley McGarry & Jill Portnoy)4. Moral-Cognitive Delay and Distortions(John Gibbs)5. Emotion and Emotion regulation (Carlo Garofalo)6. Basic personality traits perspective (Donald Lynam & Josh Miller)7. Callous-unemotional traits and empathy (Sophie Alshukri, Kerry Lewis, and Luna Centifanti)8. Narratives Roles of Criminal Actions (David Canter & Donna Youngs)9. Attachment theory and offending (Gwen Adshead & Estella Moore)10. Influences of peer relationships and romantic partners on antisocial behavior (Jelle Sijtsema)PART 2: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR11. Antisocial personality disorder (Jessica Yakeley)12. Borderline personality disorder Among Justice-involved Populations (Madison Smith, Rachelle Kromash, Shania Siebert, Genevieve Allison, & Kelly Moore)13. Narcissistic personality disorder and Deviant Behavior (Tiffany Russel, Samantha Holdren, & Elsa Ronningstam) 14. Schizophrenia Spectrum, other Psychotic Disorders and Violence (Zhaorong Song, Rhiannon Corcoran, & Steven Gillespie)15. Psychopathy (Matt DeLisi)16. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Offending (Suzan Young & Kelly Cocallis)17. Substance use, abuse and disorder within forensic psychiatry (Malin Hildebrand Karlén)18. Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (John Taylor)PART 3: OFFENDING BEHAVIORS19. Forms and Functions of Aggression (Morsal Yusoufzai & Jill Lobbestael)20. Juvenile offenders (Michael Vaughn, Leslie Sattler, & Katherine Holzer)21. Adult Perpetrated Firesetting (Nichola Tyler & Magali-Fleur Bernoux)22. Adult male contact sexual offenders: Challenges in classification and theoretical perspectives (Mirthe Noteborn)23. Homicide and Mental Disorder (Pauline Aarten & Marieke Liem)24. Domestic violence: Intimate partner violence, Child maltreatment, and Co-occurrence (Sara Nichols & Amy Slep)PART 4: RISK ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT25. Violence Risk Assessment: Research and Practice (Corine De Ruijter & Martin Hildebrand)26. Using the MMPI-3 in forensic assessment (Martin Sellbom, Dustin Wygant, Anthony Tarescavage, & Yossef Ben-Porath)27. The Good Lives Model: A Strength-Based Approach to Rehabilitating Offenders (Mary Barnao)28. Culpability and accountability: The insanity defense (Gerben Meynen & Johannes Bijlsma)29. Common psychological treatments used to address criminal behavior (Michael Daffern, Nina Papalia, Emily Stevenson, & Stuart Thomas)30. Forensic Schema Therapy and SafePath: Individual- and Milieu-Therapy Approaches for Complex Personality Disorders and Externalizing Behavior Problems (David Bernstein, Marjolein van Wijk-Herbrink, & Truus Kersten)31. Ethical issues in forensic psychology (Gwen Adshead & Estella Moore)Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "art crimes", with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application. Criminologists and sociologists are poorly represented in academic discourse on art and culture related crimes. However, to understand topics like theft, security, trafficking, forgery, vandalism, offender motivation, the efficacy of and results of policy interventions, and the effects art crimes have on communities, we must develop the theoretical and methodological models we use for analyses. The readership of this book is expected to include academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of criminology, sociology, law, and heritage studies who have an interest in art and heritage crime.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Methods.- Transiting Through the Antiquities Market.- Exploring Taste Formation and Performance in the Illicit Trade of Human Remains on Instagram.- #antiquitiesdealers.- Evaluating the transformative potential of Photovoice for research into the global illicit trade in cultural objects.- A New Method of Forensic Archaeology.- Part II: Theory.- Cuneiform exceptionalism?.- Crime, Material and Meaning in Art World Desirescapes.- Authentically Exotic and Authentically Beautiful.- “Blitzkrieg Against Black Magic”.- Art Crime and the Myth of Violence.- Part III: Data Applications.- Small Museums, Big Problems.- Guardians in the Antiquities Market.- More Than Just Money.- Offender Motivations and Expectations of Data in Antiquities Looting.- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Clock.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses the Critical Race Theory (‘CRT’) tool of ‘outsider’ or ‘counter’ storytelling to illuminate the practices that have been used by generations of Aboriginal women to create an outlaw culture and to resist their invisibility to law. Legal scholars are yet to use storytelling to bring the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women to the centre of legal scholarship and yet this book demonstrates how this can be done by way of a new methodology that combines elements of CRT with speculative biography. In one chapter, the author tells the imagined story of Eliza Woree who featured prominently in the backdrop to the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Dempsey v Rigg (1914) but whose voice was erased from the judgements. This accessible book adds a new and innovative dimension to the use of CRT to examine the nexus between race and settler colonialism. It speaks to those interested in Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies.Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: CRT and Settler Colonial Societies.- Chapter Three: Aboriginal Women’s Outlaw Culture.- Chapter Four: The Story of Eliza Woree.- Chapter Five: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies. Table of Contents​ 1. Introduction 2. Interpersonal Violence 3. Sexual Violence 4. Sex Work and the Night-time Economy 5. Street Crime, Gangs and Drugs 6. Crimes of the Powerful 7. Policing and the Courts 8. Prison and Community Penalties 9. Extreme Punishment and Abolitionist Futures

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Book SynopsisThis book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus. Drawing on global, empirical data, it explores and exposes the social harms induced by lockdowns, many of which are 'hidden', including joblessness, mental health problems and an intensification of societal inequalities and divisions. It offers data-driven case studies on harms such as domestic violence, child abuse, the distress of being ordered to stay at home, and the numerous harms associated with the new wealth industries. It explores why some people weren't compliant with lockdown restrictions and examines the already vulnerable social groups who were disproportionally affected by lockdown including those who were locked in (care home residents), locked up (prisoners), and locked out (migrant workers, refugees). The book closes with a brief discussion on what the future might look like as we enter a post-Covid world, drawing on cutting-edge social theory. Table of ContentsForeword: Emeritus Professor Robert DingwallChapter 1 - Conceptualising Covid-19 times: Post-politics and social harm Chapter 2 - To lockdown or not to lockdown? That is the question Chapter 3 - Illness and death in the Covid epoch Chapter 4 - Lockdown Inequalities: Covid-19 LosersChapter 5 - Pandemic Winners: Unlocking the Wealth IndustriesChapter 6 - Locked down: Western society Chapter 7 - Locked in: The elderly and vulnerableChapter 8 - Locked up: Prisoners, youth detainees and asylum seekersChapter 9 - Locked out: Migrant workers, refugees, stateless citizens and the homelessChapter 10 - The Dichotomy of Lockdowns: Covid compliance and restriction refusal Chapter 11 - The ideological residue from Lockdowns Chapter 12 - Endgames Index

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides students of US Politics with an informed scholarly analysis of recent developments in the American political environment, using historical background to contextualize contemporary issues. As the ninth edition, this book reviews a time of political controversy in the United States, touching on topics such as gender, economic policy, gun control, immigration, the media, healthcare, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the widespread social protests against police brutality. The book looks both backwards to Trump's presidency and forward to Biden's. Ultimately, the editors and contributors evaluate the significance of these events on the future of American politics, providing a perspective that is at once broad and meticulous.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction :the editorsChapter 2: The elections of 2020Chapter 3: Race Chapter 4: Women gender and cultural conflictsChapter 5: Political PartiesChapter 6: Interest groupsChapter 7: The mediaChapter 8: The PresidencyChapter 9: CongressChapter 10: The Supreme Court and the Constitution Chapter 11: BureaucracyChapter 12: FederalismChapter 13: ImmigrationChapter 14: Economic PolicyChapter 15: HealthChapter 16: Gun ControlChapter 17: Social PolicyChapter 18: Foreign PolicyChapter 19: Interpreting the Trump Era

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods. It draws on data from rape and sexual assault trials in 2019 which is used to examine the current status of newly emerging issues such as the use of digital evidence and the impacts of increasing policy attention on rape trials. Drawing on the concept of master narratives, the book provides an examination of rape myths and broader cultural narratives focussing on the intersections of gender and class and it also touches on the intersections of age, (dis)ability and mental health. It emphasizes the importance of situating rape myth debates and sexual violence research within a broader cultural context and thus argues for widening the lens with which rape myths in the courtroom, as well as in the wider criminal justice system, are viewed in research and contemporary debates. The findings presented in this book will help further discussion at a critical time by enabling scholars, as well as practitioners and policymakers, to better understand the current mechanisms that serve to undermine and retraumatise victim-survivors in the courtroom. It seeks to inform further research as well as positive changes to policy and practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1:- Introduction.- Chapter 2:- Rape Myths in the Courtroom.- Chapter 3:- Respectability.- Chapter 4:- Honesty and excuses.- Chapter 5:- What needs to change?

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Book SynopsisNorthern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion – how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do?These interrogations are at the core of this book. It is the first critical and comprehensive review of the ways in which the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland. In particular, it examines the shortcomings of existing interpretations and, in turn, suggests alternative lines of thinking for more robust and compelling analyses of the role(s) religion might play in Northern Irish culture and politics.Through, and beyond, the case of Northern Ireland, the second objective of this book is to outline a critical agenda for the social study of religion, which has theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Finally, this work engages with epistemological issues which never have been addressed as such in the Northern Irish context: how do conflict settings affect the research undertaken on religion, when religion is an object of political and violent contentions? By analysing the scope for objective and critical thinking in such research context, this critical essay intends to contribute to a sociology of the sociology of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction_ Chapter 1.- Context_ Chapter 2.- Religion, the Great Un-equaliser_ Chapter 3.- Back to the Social_ Chapter 4.- Epistemology in the context of social conflict_ Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisPart I- SELECT ORGANIZATIONAL THEORIES. .- Chapter 1. A NEO-INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNT OF PRISONIZATION.- Chapter 2. OUT OF BOUNDS: THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL AND INSTITUTIONALIZED BOUNDED RATIONALITY ON JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING.- Chapter 3. A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICYMAKING.- Chapter 4. APPLICATION OF CONTINGENCY THEORY TO THE WORKFORCE CRISIS IN POLICING.- Chapter 5. AN ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING SIDE EFFECTS OF JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM REFORMS.- Chapter 6. AN APPLICATION OF STRUCTURATION THEORY TO CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS.- Part II- SELECT ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPTS & IDEAS.- Chapter 7. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN POLICE ORGANIZATIONS: APPLYING THE LENS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CLIMATE.- Chapter 8. TOWARD AN ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE OF DELINQUENCY PREVENTION: THE MISSING LINK FOR UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL DELINQUENCY.- Chapter 9. ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS IN CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMMING.- Chapter 10. POWER, DISCRETION, AND THE LANDSCAPE OF CONTEMPORARY PROSECUTION.- Chapter 11. ENDURING HARM AS A BY-PRODUCT OF PROSECUTORS' POWER OVER EXONEREES POST-INCARCERATION.- Chapter 12. MISCONDUCT ROUTINIZATION IN CRIMINAL LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS: AN EXPLOSIVE CLUSTER OF FEEDBACK LOOPS.- Chapter 13. BOYCOTTING THE UNIFORM CRIME REPORT: ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF COOPERATIVE FAILURES BY POLICE FOR FEDERAL CRIME REPORTING.- Chapter 14. BEYOND JUST A FEW BAD APPLES:' ORGANIZATIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT AS DEVIANT SUBCULTURES.- Chapter 15. LEADERSHIP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.- Chapter 16. CONCLUSION & FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

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Book SynopsisPart I- Contemporary Terrorism and Homeland Security Threats .- Chapter 1. Contemporary International and Domestic Terrorist and Security Threats.- Chapter 2. THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: LESSONS LEARNED IN TURKEY .- Chapter 3. Safety and Security Threats to the Transportation Sector and to Border Security.- Part II- Crisis Planning and Management .- Chapter 4. Lessons Learned from 9-11: Effective Crisis Management and Planning in New York City.- Chapter 5. A Comparison of the Police Critical Incident Management Systems in New Zealand and the United States.- Chapter 6. The Role of Public Safety Organizations in Controlling Treatment Costs throughout and after Major Crises.- Part III- Counter-terrorism Strategies. .- Chapter 7. Evaluating Policing Priorities in the United Kingdom: A Narrative Overview focusing on Counter-terrorism, Crime Control and Community Policing Strategies.- Chapter 8. Examining Counter-Terrorism Strategies in Nigeria.- Chapter 9. The Evolution of the New York City Police Department Counter-terrorism Strategy following 9-11.- Part IV- Demonstration and Riot Control. .- Chapter 10. Evaluating Tactics for Public Order Policing in the United Kingdom: Examining the Police Deployment at Orgreave during the Miners' Strike of 1984.- Chapter 11. Police Strategic Response to Civil Disturbance in Asia: Case Studies in Taiwan and Hong Kong.- Chapter 12. Law Enforcement Involvement and Response to Transnational Repression.- Part V- Cumulative and Post-traumatic Stress. .- Chapter 13. Perceiving Danger: The Impact of Societal Stressors on Police Line of Duty Deaths.- Chapter 14. Examining Workplace Stress in the New Zealand Police.- Chapter 15. Understanding Post Traumatic and Cumulative Stress in Contemporary Policing.- Part VI- Afterword .- Chapter 16. Afterword: Examining Contemporary Challenges in Crisis Management and Policing.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 The Roots and Ramifications of Criminology's Progressive Ethos: Navigating Theory, Practice, and Politics.- Chapter 2 A narrative review of the debate on the so-called international crime drop.- Chapter 3 Digitalization, social change and crime trends: a literature review to build a conjecture.- Chapter 4 Crime Opportunities, Lockdowns, and online video Games: the digital leisure hypothesis (and more on the impact of digitalisation on crime trends).- Chapter 5 Observing, Measuring, and Researching Cybercrime: A scoping review of systematic reviews since 2000.

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Book Synopsispart i. introduction.- 1. femi(ni)cide, forensic crisis, and justice: the need for a victimological standard in forensic contexts.- part ii. general issues on femi(ni)cide, forensic investigation, and due diligence.- 2. femicide' and feminicide': history, typologies, contexts, and complexities.- 3. child femicide.- 4. feminicidal violence and the nullity of unlawful evidence.- 5. due diligence standards: the forensic investigation on femi[ni]cide.- part iii. criminalistics and forensic medicine.- 6. crime scene and feminicide: crime scene investigation and processing standards.- 7. the contribution of forensic entomology to the investigation of violent crimes: historical framework and situation in mexico.- 8. feminicide: identification through skeletal remains.- 9. the role of forensic medical examiner towards feminicide.- 10. necropsy protocol for feminicide in pregnant women and perinatology of the embryo and fetus.- . epilogue.

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Book Synopsispart i. social and behavioral forensic investigation in femi(ni)cide.- 1. investigative and forensic interview: estandards of practice in feminicide contexts.- 2. forensic discussion and formulation: ecological-intersectional perspectives in victimology and criminology to understand feminicide.- 3. forensic psychopathological aspects of femicidal offenders: an analysis of insanity and imputability.- 4. criminal motivations in femicide.- 5. motivations for juvenile offending behaviour and femicide.- 6. criminal profiling in femicide.- 7. forensic psychological evaluation of survivors of feminicide, a dignified forensic intervention for victims.- 8. forensic victimology and context analysis: the ecological-intersectional dimensions model on the victimization context.- 9. the use of applied victimology to increase solvability for femicide.- part 2. final reflections: truth, memory and justice for victims and survivors of femi(ni)cide.- 10. truth, memory, therapeutical and social justice: towards a victimology about' victims, for' victims and along with' victims aof femi(ni)cide.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. POLICE LEGITIMACY.- Chapter 3. SELF-LEGITIMACY.- Chapter 4. PROCEDURAL JUSTICE TRAINING IN POLICING A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE RESEARCH EVIDENCE.- Chapter 5. LEGITIMACY TRAINING FOR COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICERS: LESSONS FROM A CLUSTER RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL.- Chapter 6. THE EFFECT OF LEGITIMACY TRAINING ON AUDIENCE LEGITIMACY.- Chapter 7. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS.- Chapter 8. REFERENCES.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- What is Major Incident Command?.- Major Incidents.- Critical Incidents.- Public Order Incidents.- Decision-Making In a Crisis.- Future Directions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. An Introduction.- Chapter 2. The History of the PCC Office and New Opportunities for Evidence .- Chapter 3. Supporting PCCs and their Offices to Engage with Data – the Role of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners.- Chapter 4. A transition From Evidence-Based Policing Towards Something New.- Chapter 5. Measuring the Things That Matter – the Power of Performance.- Chapter 6. Charting the Growth of Evidence-Based Over-sight – From Policing Plans to Public Scrutiny .- Chapter 7. Hiding in Plain Sight – The Systematic Coding of Police Data and Insights into Vulnerability.- Chapter 8. Systems Under Scrutiny: The Role of Evidence and Advocacy in Driving Change for Victims.- Chapter 9. MOPAC’s Tools to Capture the Voice of Londoners.- Chapter 10. Trust and Confidence: Learning (and Lessons) from London.- Chapter 11. Exploring the Decline in Victim Satisfaction Within London – Analytics to Oversight .- Chapter 12. Embedding and Stretching a Systematic Approach to Evaluation in the PCC and Beyond.- Chapter 13. Evaluating Technological Innovation Through the Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement: From Local Proof of Concept Pilot to National Rollout.- Chapter 14. Implementation Continued – Evaluating the Lighthouse, the Largest CSA/E Service in the UK.- Chapter 15. Innovation in Impact Evaluation – Devising a Novel Quasi-Experimental Approach to Understanding the Impact of the London Gangs Matrix .- Chapter 16. Police Research Inside/Outside the Academy: The Institute for Global City Policing .- Chapter 17. Infusing Cutting-edge Computing Algorithms with Crime Data for Policy Evidence through Partnership with King’s College London.- Chapter 18. The Collaborative Path to Evidence-Based Policing.- Chapter 19. Cost of Living and Crime in London: Lessons from an Empirical and Collaborative Study.- Chapter 20. Final Thoughts.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Recipient of Reform.- Chapter 2: A Historical Perspective on the Conditions of California Jails.- Chapter 3: A Collision Course with CDC(R).- Chapter 4: Shifting the Burden.- Chapter 5: Shifting Jail Inmate Politics.- Chapter 6: Deaths in Claifornia County Jails.- Chapter 7: On Reforms and Catch Basins.- Chapter 8: The Unintened.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 Analysis and Documentation of Violence from the Psychosocial Perspective: The Particular Case of Severe Human Rights Violations.- Chapter 2 Psychosocial-Centered Instruments for the Documentation of the Impact of Victimization: A Forensic Methodological Proposal.- Chapter 3 De-Idealizing the Ideal Victim: Epistemic Injustice, Symbolic Violence, and Narrative Victimology.- Chapter 4 Geo-Spatial Analysis of the Femi-Disappearance in the Municipality of San Luis Potosi during 2017–2024.- Chapter 5 Victimological Model of Chemical Violence and Acid Attacks on Women.- Chapter 6 Reframing Harm: Pornography, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence and Zemiological Principles for Social Transformation.- Chapter 7 From Home to Heart: Adolescent Violence in the Home as a Turning Point in Intimate Partner Violence Trajectories.- Chapter 8 Substance Use, Criminal Behavior, and Adolescence: Insights from Public Health.- Chapter 9 The Accumulation of Childhood Maltreatment, Developmental Trauma and Victimology.- Chapter 10 Measuring and Addressing Childhood and Youth Victimization from the School Context.- Chapter 11 Building Safe Environments: Professional Training Initiatives in Spain for the Prevention of Violence Against Children.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Victimology.- Chapter 2. VICTIMOLOGY THEORIES: FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING VICTIMISATION.- Chapter 3. Victim profiling under financial crimes.- Chapter 4. The Criminal Protection of Domestic Violence Victims Substantively and Procedurally from the Perspective of Omani Law.- Chapter 5. CYBERCRIME AND INTERNET BANKING: UNDERSTANDING VULNERABILITIES, VICTIMIZATION, AND STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCED SAFETY.- Chapter 6. Navigating Consumer Victimization in E-Commerce Grocery Platforms: Challenges, Impacts, and Protective Strategies.- Chapter 7. Human Trafficking.- Chapter 8. Offender-Victim Mediation, Criminal Prosecution, and Civil Litigation in Child Sexual Abuse Cases.- Chapter 9. Digital Danger: The Rising Victimization of Children in Cyberspace.- Chapter 10. Integrating Forensic Victimology in the Aarushi Talwar Case and Wrongful Convictions.- Chapter 11. The Role of Forensic Science in Disaster Management: Advancing Preparedness and Resilience.- Chapter 12. Balancing Justice and Ethics: Legal and Ethical Paradigms in Forensic Victimology.- Chapter 13. Alchemy of Empathy: Mediation as a Catalyst in the Landscape of Victimological Restoration.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Setting the scene.- Chapter 3. The changing landscape of crimes and harms.- Chapter 4. Feeling the heat.- Chapter 5. Policing civil disobedience.- Chapter 6. Policing disasters.- Chapter 7. Green organisational reset .- Chapter 8. Resilience and adaptive policing .- Chapter 9. Eco-cops.- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.  Young People as Victims, Offenders and Victim-Offenders.- Chapter 3. Experience with Crime in the Online and Offline Domains.- Chapter 4. Repeat and Serious Offending.- Chapter 5. Thinking about Theory and Practice.

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Book SynopsisThis brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach engagement with citizens across a range of different types of interventions to embrace the principles of procedural justice, including: · problem-oriented policing · patrol · restorative justice · reassurance policing · and community policing.Through these examples, the authors also examine some of the barriers for implementing procedurally just ways of interacting with citizens, and offer practical suggestions for reform. This work will be of interest for researchers in criminology and criminal justice focused on policing as well as policymakers.Table of Contents​Introduction.- Effective Approaches Using the Principles of Procedural Justice.- Use of Research Evidence.- Barriers to Implementation.- Mechanisms that Help Translation.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisDas Handbuch behandelt umfassend die Delikte gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung, wie sie im 13. Abschnitt des Strafgesetzbuches normiert sind. Der Autor erläutert die Sexualstraftaten unter Berücksichtigung der Rechtsprechung und anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele. Das Nachschlagewerk richtet sich an alle, die in der Rechtspflege tätig sind. Es liefert Argumentations- und Entscheidungshilfen, einschlägige Rechtsprechung sowie Literatur können schnell aufgefunden werden.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “... Handbuch Sexualstraftaten wird befassten Verfahrensbeteiligten eine Grundlage zum materiellen Recht geboten. Auf der man sodann weitere Kenntnisse erwerben kann ... Die Gestaltung des Handbuchs ist übersichtlich ... Der Fließtext ist zwar gut gegliedert, ... Vielen Beispielsfälle aus der Rechtsprechung hätten graphisch markanter in den Blickpunkt gerückt werden können ... Die Fußnoten sind reichhaltig ebenso die enthaltenen Verzeichnisse ... im Vergleich zu allgemeinen Lehrbüchern zum Besonderen Teil bietet dieses Handbuch ein deutliches Plus an Informationen und Detailgenauigkeit ...“ (in: Die Rezensenten dierezensenten.blogspot.de, 14-December-2012)Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Allgemeine Grundlagen.- Delikte gegen die sexuelle Freiheit.- Missbrauch institutioneller Abhängigkeit.- Delikte gegen die sexuelle Entwicklung.- Exibitionismus und Erregung öffentlichen Ärgernisses.- Prostitutionsdelikte.- Die strafrechtlichen Pornographieverbote.

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