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Book SynopsisThis volume assembles hundreds of cases and studies to provide the most accurate and comprehensive picture of the status of pornography in the criminal justice system. Presenting high-level research in an accessible and organized manner, it explores a range of topics, including investigating and prosecuting a case, arguments favoring and opposing decriminalization of pornography, and relationships between pornography, mental disorders, and crime. It also examines criminal justice responses and international laws, policies, attitudes, and definitions of pornography in comparison to those of the United States.Trade Review"… an exceptionally comprehensive survey of many different dimensions of pornography. … the author identifies various court rulings, case outcomes, and such matters as police investigations, federal and state punishments, criminal justice personnel as perpetrators, and evidentiary standards on the topic. Altogether, this book provides a starting point for more in-depth exploration of various aspects of pornography. References are quite extensive and useful. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."—D. O. Friedrichs, University of ScrantonTable of ContentsPhilosophical and Jurisprudential Underpinnings. Pornography in the U. S. Criminal Justice System. Obscenity. Pornography Production and the U. S. Criminal Justice System. Children, Pornography, and the Law. Pornography and Viewers’ Crime. Relationship Between Pornography and Trafficking. Commonalities and Comorbidities Within Child Pornography. Prosecution. Illegal Pornography, Cyberspace, and Technology. The Pornography Business and Crime. Family Law and Pornography. Public Pornography. Unintended Pornography. Bestiality. Simulations. Fantasies and Free Speech. Punishments for Pornography. Crooked Members of the Criminal Justice System. Evidence. Pornography Addiction, Retribution, and Rehabilitation. International and Comparative. The Future. Index.

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Book SynopsisJust as people are captivated by murder mysteries, detective stories, and legal shows, they are also compulsively interested in the history of criminal justice. Looking Back in Crime: What Happened on This Day in Criminal Justice History? features a treasure trove of important dates and significant events in criminal justice history.Offering hundreds of facts with particular relevance to criminal justice, this unique textbook is written in a manner that is accessible to students and anyone else interested in the history of criminal justice. It presents at least one significant event for every day of the year; in some instances, there are several facts presented for the same date.Among the comprehensive listing of events there are famous and not-so-famous crimes; the development of law enforcement; criminal trials; passages of criminal laws; Supreme Court decisions; important dates related to prisons, punishment, and corrections; forensic milestones aTable of ContentsIntroduction. January. February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides broad exposure to a variety of policing reforms that have not received adequate attention. It includes information and examples from different countries regarding efforts to change aspects of policing that are problematic or involve changes in the way crimes are committed. Some of the efforts to improve the police are relatively recent (i.e., using social media) and some areas of policing that seem to require frequent attention (i.e., working with the public).Table of ContentsSection I: Police Officer Education1. Benefits and Challenges of Academic Police EducationKATJA M. HALLENBERG2. Indian Police Training Institutions, Universities, and Other Stakeholder Partnerships: Toward a Matrix Model for Better PolicingSONY KUNJAPPAN3. Downsizing to a College-Educated Police ForceGREGORY E. WALSHSection II: Policing and the Public4. Correlates of Citizen Trust in the Ghanaian Police: A Regional StudyFRANCIS D. BOATENG5. Staging "White Maleness" with Cops: A Diversity Training Case AnalysisDEBORAH S. DEMEESTER & DONALD R. LAMAGDELEINE6. Reengineering the Delivery of Police Services: The Decision to Change Utilizing a Problem-Solving ModelRICHARD C. LUMB & JOHN B. ROGERS7. Factors That Predict Citizen Support for Aggressive PolicingTIMOTHY A. LAVERY, AMIE M. SCHUCK, MEGAN A. ALDERDEN, RACHEL M. JOHNSTON, DENNIS P. ROSENBAUM, & CODY D. STEPHENS8. Opposing Perspectives of Policing in Pakistan and Implications for ReformMARK SHAWSection III: Past and Contemporary Changes in Policing9. Assessing the Current Status of Women in Policing: The Presence of the PastVENESSA GARCIA10. Police Downsizing and Change Processes in Northern Ireland: Retired Police Officers' Views on the Implementation of the Patten Report on PolicingPAUL KENNETH GILBERT, CHRISTOPHER ALAN LEWIS, & CONOR MC GUCKIN11. Reflections on Police Corruption: Faltering Developments in Regulating Police Conduct in AustraliaBERNADINE TUCKER & ANN-CLAIRE LARSEN12. Policing Terrorism: The Significance of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force ProgramCHRISTOPHER W. ORTIZ13. Police Web Presence: Engaging with the Digital FrontierMICHAEL F. AIELLO & VIKAS K. GUMBHIR14. The Role of Facebook in Policing: Linking Law Enforcement and the CommunityMICHELLE KILBURN, LAURA KRIEGER, CRYSTAL CECIL, & LUKE MORAVEC15. A Dynamical Spider Web of Change: The Process of Changing Policy in Law EnforcementMICHELE MUNI16. ConclusionSCOTT W. PHILLIPS

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring. It fills the gap in the research as to how police agencies have reacted to the environmental and fiscal changes since the 1980s. The book examines the strategies employed and the effect on police and their delivery of service.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part One. Defining Methods for Improving Public Services. Defining Methods for Improving Police Services. The Theory of Government Reform and Theory of Modern Police Reform. Historical Approaches used to Improve Police Service Delivery. Late 20th Century Strategies used to Improve Service Delivery. Part Two. Strategies Employed to Improve Service Delivery in the United States. Strategies Employed to Improve Service Delivery in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Part Three. Case Studies. Police Scotland: The Merging of Eight Police Forces. New Zealand Police: The Strategies Employed to Improve Service Delivery. UK or USA Case Study. Conclusions. References.

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Book SynopsisBased on peer-reviewed articles from the Second International Conference of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology, Interpersonal Criminology investigates the roots of crime and victimization, rather than dissecting criminal behavior after the fact. The book divides crime by type, covering crimes against women, crimes against children and youths, culture conflict and victimization of groups, and interpersonal cybercrimes.Perfect for criminal justice practitioners and advanced human rights, criminology, and victimology students, Interpersonal Criminology explores the complexities of crime and interpersonal events in both established and emerging fields of criminology, including those concerning women and minorities.Table of ContentsForeword xiAcknowledgments xiii Introduction xvEditor xxiiiContributors xxvSection IINTERPERSONAL CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN Gender-Based Street Harassment: An International Perspective 3 JANICE JOSEPH Marital Rape: A Socially and Legally Warranted Crime in India 17 AKANSHA SINGH Homelessness: A Consequence of Abuse of Women in Brisbane, Australia 29 HELENA MENIH AND CATRIN SMITH Market Women and Their Crime Reporting Practices in Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria 41 JOHNSON OLUWOLE AYODELE Discrimination and Victimization of Women at the Workplace in Serbia: Prevalence and Characteristics 55 VESNA NIKOLIĆ-RISTANOVIĆ, SANJA ĆOPIĆ, AND BEJAN ŠAĆIRI Fear of Crime among Women in Tiruchirappalli, India: A Spatial Examination of Transit Spaces 73 C. HANNAH, G. SUBBAIYAN, AND T. SRINIVAS vii viii Contents Section II INTERPERSONAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN AND YOUTH Restorative Practices for Juveniles in Hawai’i, United States 87 LORENN WALKER Prevention of Interpersonal Crimes and Violence among Children and Youth through Virtue Education: A Roadmap 97 JOHN CHRISTOPHER AND JOHAN DE TAVERNIER Underage Commercial Sex and Criminal Prosecutions in Singapore: Who Are the Real Victims? 111 S. CHANDRA MOHAN Section III CULTURE CONFLICT AND VICTIMIZATION OF GROUPS Policing Domestic Violence in South Africa 125 DORAVAL GOVENDER Domestic Violence Legislation and Its Application in Serbia: The Impact of Gender of the Offender and Other Factors 141 VESNA NIKOLIĆ-RISTANOVIĆ AND LJILJANA STEVKOVIĆ Labeling of Denotified Tribes: Revisiting the Ramoshis in Maharashtra, India 163 DATTATREYA BHANDALKAR Sex Trafficking in Gujarat, India: Case Studies of Women Victims Turned Offenders 177 PAVITHRAN NAMBIAR AND SUHAS P. NAMBIAR How Can Victimology Become Positive? 191 NATTI RONELContents ixSection IVINTERPERSONAL CYBER CRIMES15. Generation Y and Online Victimization in Nigeria: How Vulnerable Are Younger Internet Users? 203PHILIP NDUBUEZE16. Sexting among Teens: Are They Victims or Offenders? 215DEBARATI HALDER AND K. JAISHANKAR17. Cyber and Mobile Phone Bullying Victimization among Youth in Singapore: An Exploration of Correlates 233THOMAS J. HOLT, GRACE CHEE, AND ESTHER NG18. Assessment of Cyber Criminology: Obstacles, Challenges, and Promising Paths of the New Science of Cyber Crime 247BRIE DIAMOND AND MICHAEL BACHMANNEpilogue 257NATTI RONELIndex 259

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the different types of police misconduct including the use of excessive force. It also explores what types of officers become involved in illegal misconduct, steps jurisdictions may take to prevent such problems, and discusses who should police the police. Also included is a historical analysis of police misconduct, discussions on the legal restrictions designed to prevent police misconduct, and steps that the jurisdiction may take to limit their liability. Ancillary material is available with course adoption.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction to the study of police misconduct. Historical analysis of police misconduct. Excessive use of force. Permissible use of force. Other types of misconduct. Police corruption in multi-nations forces. Legal restrictions to prevent misconduct. Psychological reviews of bad cops. Civil liability for police misconduct. Reacting with the media in possible misconduct situations. Citizen review boards and external oversight. Who polices the police? Recruiting and training as preventive measures. Glossary.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the latest scholarly research on the practice of public corruption. The authors explore the causes and methods of fraud-related crime, as well as how it can be detected. The book also investigates the best strategies to prevent corruption, as well as convention punishments for those convicted. Intended for criminal justice students and practitioners, Public Corruption: Regional and National Perspectives on Procurement Fraud is a valuable resource for all stages of fraud investigation.  Table of ContentsPublic CorruptionRegional and National Perspectives on Procurement FraudIntroduction. Petter Gottschalk and Perry StanislasPART I Theoretical PerspectivesChapter 1. Convenience Theory of White-Collar Crime. Petter GottschalkChapter 2. Neutralization Theory of Public Corruption. Petter GottschalkChapter 3. Public Service Motivation Theory. Michael Benson and Petter GottschalkPART II EuropeChapter 4. Public and Police Corruption in Eastern Europe. James F. AlbrechtChapter 5. Whistleblowers in Corruption Detection in Norway. Petter GottschalkChapter 6. Corruption the Noble Way. Norway. Harald RøstvikPART III Other NationsChapter 7. Governance and Public Corruption in Nigeria. Oyesoji AremuChapter 8. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Pakistan. Fasihuddin, Imran Ahmad Sajid, Farhat UllahChapter 9. Government Corruption and Authoritarian Rule in Turkey. Hasan Arslan, Aydogan Vatandas

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Book SynopsisMany cities, towns, and municipalities across the United States have criminal organizations operating within their jurisdictions. This book gives the investigator a guide to probing, evaluating, and analyzing local criminal organizations, with the goal of disrupting and dismantling criminal operations. Subjects covered include investigative field techniques, identification of enterprise vulnerabilities, and an in-depth look into FBI task forces. Intended for law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals, Criminal Enterprise Investigation provides readers with a critical how to guide to overcoming criminal enterprise in their communities. Features: Provides step-by-step guide to dismantling criminal organizations Includes real-life examples of successful investigations Covers a wide range of criminal groups, including domestic terrorists, drug cartels, gangs, white-collar criminals, and robbery and extoTrade Review"Overall, the book achieves exactly what the author hoped to accomplish. It provides guidance on establishing a multi-agency task force, as well as investigative steps to use for dismantling a criminal enterprise." - Michael Rogan, PCI, senior investigator with Charter Communications Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction - How to Identify, Disrupt, and Dismantle an Enterprise Section I: BEGIN Chapter 2: BackgroundChapter 3: Identify the ProblemChapter 4: Build Law Enforcement Working GroupChapter 5: Basic TrainingChapter 6: Engage the Community. Section II: INTELLIGENCE Chapter 7: Define EnterpriseChapter 8: Develop an Organizational ChartChapter 9: Research Criminal ActivityChapter 10: Informants and SourcesChapter 11: FinancesChapter 12: Vulnerabilities. Section III: ACTION Chapter 13: Formalize Task ForceChapter 14: Target Leaders and their SuccessorsChapter 15: DisruptionChapter 16: DismantlementChapter 17: Warnings/Cautions

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Book SynopsisWhile much has been written about instinct shooting with long guns, very little had been published on doing so with a handgun until this publication. Written by a pioneering author of the concept, Instinct Combat Shooting: Defensive Handgunning for Police, now in its fourth edition, is not about winning target shooting competitions, but purports surviving real-life firefights by examining testimonies of shootout survivors and carefully analyzing firefights that prove shooting instinctively is not only crucially fast, but also equally accurate.The book defines instinctive combat shooting as: The act of operating a handgun by focusing on the target, as opposed to the sights, and instinctively coordinating the hand and mind to cause the handgun to discharge at a time and point that ensures interception of the projectile with the target.The concepts behind instinct combat shooting discussed in this book are now being integrated into some Table of ContentsHistorical Background. Hardware. Safety Measures/Lead Poisoning. Refresher on Firearm Handling and Basics. Mental Acuity. Instinct Combat Shooting. In Other Words. Tactical. Moving Targets. Personal Experience. Course of Fire. Dispelling Myths. Summary. Postscript.

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Book SynopsisThere are few things is our society that provoke such raw emotions as that of child abuse. Most people, justifiably so, are outraged when they hear of allegations of abuse, and their anger is intensified as they learn of what seems to be an inappropriate criminal justice response. However, the debate on child abuse usually happens though visceral emotions rather than facts. Taking emotions out of a child abuse debate is much easier said than done, but it is of utmost importance to identify the facts. When the reader has a better understanding of the scope of child abuse, they can become more objective but still maintain their passion about ways to protect this vulnerable and targeted population. Child Abuse, Child Exploitation, and Criminal Justice Responses is unique in that it offers the reader contributing facts based not only through scholarly research, but practical experience working in field, from this wonderful collaboration of criminal investigator and forensic nurse. Thus providing much personal insight and demonstrating how these two areas of expertise can join forces to achieve the objective of working as a team to facilitate safeguarding children. The authors also presents the research on this complex yet worthy topic by identifying the unique challenges of investigating these offenses while ultimately bringing the perpetrators to justice, and presenting the research from various perspectives of child abuse including both national and international issues and responses.

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Book SynopsisThere are few things is our society that provoke such raw emotions as that of child abuse. Most people, justifiably so, are outraged when they hear of allegations of abuse, and their anger is intensified as they learn of what seems to be an inappropriate criminal justice response. However, the debate on child abuse usually happens though visceral emotions rather than facts. Taking emotions out of a child abuse debate is much easier said than done, but it is of utmost importance to identify the facts. When the reader has a better understanding of the scope of child abuse, they can become more objective but still maintain their passion about ways to protect this vulnerable and targeted population. Child Abuse, Child Exploitation, and Criminal Justice Responses is unique in that it offers the reader contributing facts based not only through scholarly research, but practical experience working in field, from this wonderful collaboration of criminal investigator and forensic nurse. Thus providing much personal insight and demonstrating how these two areas of expertise can join forces to achieve the objective of working as a team to facilitate safeguarding children. The authors also presents the research on this complex yet worthy topic by identifying the unique challenges of investigating these offenses while ultimately bringing the perpetrators to justice, and presenting the research from various perspectives of child abuse including both national and international issues and responses.

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Book SynopsisAfter a summer of violent protests in 2020-sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks-a dangerously false narrative gained mainstream acceptance: Criminal justice in the United States is overly punitive and racially oppressive. But, the harshest and loudest condemnations of incarceration, policing, and prosecution are often shallow and at odds with the available data. And the significant harms caused by this false narrative are borne by those who can least afford them: black and brown people who are disproportionately the victims of serious crimes.In Criminal (In)Justice, Rafael A. Mangual offers a more balanced understanding of American criminal justice, and cautions against discarding traditional crime control measures. A powerful combination of research, data-driven policy journalism, and the author's lived experiences, this book explains what many reform advocates get wrong, and illustrates how the misguided commitment to leniency places America's most vulnerable communities at risk. The stakes of this moment are incredibly high. Ongoing debates over criminal justice reform have the potential to transform our society for a generation-for better or for worse. Grappling with the data-and the sometimes harsh realities they reflect-is the surest way to minimize the all-too-common injustices plaguing neighborhoods that can least afford them.

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Book SynopsisThis is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended, all at night, in the basement of a local morgue and flower shop. Autopsy reports claimed organs had been observed and weighed when, in reality, they had been surgically removed from the body years before. But Hayne was the only game in town. He also often brought in local dentist and self-styled "bite mark specialist" Dr. Michael West, who would discover marks on victim's bodies, at times invisible to the naked eye, and then match those marks to law enforcement's lead suspect.This leads to the second tragic tale: that of Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks, two black men each convicted in separate cases of the brutal rape and murder of young girls. Dr. Hayne's autopsy and Dr. West's bite mark matching formed the bases for the convictions. Combined the two men served over 30 years in Mississippi's notorious penitentiary - Parchman Farm - before being exonerated in 2008. Brooks' and Brewer's wrongful convictions lie at the intersection of both the most pressing problem facing this country's criminal justice system - structural injustice built on the historic foundation of race and class as well as with the much more contemporary but equally egregious problem of invalid forensic science. The old problem is inextricably bound up with and exacerbates the new. In Dr. Death and the Country Dentist, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington write a true story of Southern gothic horror--of two innocent men wrongly convicted of vicious crimes and the legally condoned failures that allowed it to happen. Balko and Carrington will shine a light on the institutional and professional failures that allowed this tragic, astonishing story to happen, identify where it may have happened elsewhere, and show how to prevent it from happening again

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Book SynopsisPursuing justice is daunting. It plays out in a variety of contexts - like the environment, employment, the criminal justice system - and raises tough issues like racism, gender discrimination and poverty. But ultimately the aim of studying justice is to achieve it.This book is about justice in Canada: its definition, its boundaries, its contradictions and its nuances. It is also about the mechanisms and practices that enable the pursuit of justice. It problematizes the notion of justice while defining and pursuing the illusive notion of justice in Canadian society.This second edition features updated content from the popular first edition as well as new content about social justice and racism, the experiences of racialized persons with police, settler colonialism and issues of justice for gender and sexual minorities - all from a Canadian perspective. Additionally, each chapter contains objectives of the chapter, case studies and discussion questions.

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Book SynopsisWhen the crowd gathered to see the hangman launching teenager Robert Smith into eternity on a wet Tuesday in 1868, it was the last time this public spectacle would be witnessed in Scotland. Smith's crime was heinous, his public punishment brutal. And, finally, it was the end of a tragic public theatre which had drawn eager, baying crowds for more than a thousand years. Launched Into Eternity is a fascinating account of crime and public punishment in Scotland. From bloody Viking penalties to the execution of William Wallace, and from witch hunts and public drownings to the horrific execution in 1820 of three Scots Radicals whose crime was to campaign for a fairer deal for the downtrodden, this is an astonishing and macabre story. But it is perhaps less surprising when you consider that by 1800, judges had the authority to hand out the death penalty for more than 200 separate offences. Times have undoubtedly changed for the better, but the shadows of our history offer a fascinating insight into the brutality of life and the public punishments of the past. But if their deaths were cruel, Launched Into Eternity tells of women decried by jealous neighbours as witches being burned alive, publicly drowned, having ears and noses cut off and a vast range of other tragic cases where the justice of the time was delivered in the most brutal ways.The sheer scale of this can be seen in the fact that by 1800 Judges had authority to hand out the death penalty for more than 200 offences, some as trivial as poking about in a rabbit warren, stealing a shilling, begging, poaching, picking pockets, spending time with gipsies and stealing a horse, sheep or goat. Times have undoubtedly changed for the better, but the shadows of our past offer a fascinating insight into the brutality of life and the punishments of the past.

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Book SynopsisCovid-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, societies and economies in previously unimaginable ways--but gangsters and profiteers have adapted. They have found new routes for illegal commodities, from narcotics to people. Shortages, lockdowns and public attitudes have brought the underworld and upperworld closer together, as criminals strive to meet needs, maximise opportunities and fill governance vacuums. Unscrupulous fraudsters are touting fake remedies to desperate people: counterfeit drugs, and trafficked wildlife used in traditional medicine. Social distancing and restrictions have seen online transactions and cyber-ops replacing or supplementing physical shipments, opening opportunities for scammers and hackers. Heavy-handed state responses have created new illicit markets by prohibiting the sale of particular goods and services, while some elites have capitalised on the pandemic for personal or political gain. Covid has cast a long shadow over the rule of law. Criminal Contagion uncovers its extraordinary impacts on the global illicit economy, and their long-term implications.Trade Review'[Criminal Contagion] provides a chilling revelation as to the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has enabled the international underworld to thrive.' -- Geographical Magazine

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the defence of 'honour' and 'provocation' in different countries of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. This timely volume is distinctive in approach and content, highlighting activist and practice-orientated academic perspectives from both the South and the North.The authors give voice to the struggle to locate 'crimes of honour' firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The first of its kind, this book serves as a resource in addressing 'honour crimes' and, more broadly, violence against women, and will be of interest to a multi-disciplinary academic audience as well as to lawyers, policy-makers and activists.Trade Review'This book must find its way to the shelves of every concerned lawyer, activist and citizen.' Nandini Sundar, Delhi University 'An extremely timely and insightful book.' Yakin Ertrk, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women 'This book is by far the best recent work on the issue and is indispensable reading.' Philip Alston, director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law 'This is an excellent contribution to debates about crimes of honour, violence against women, and the politics of culture.' Annelies Moors, ISIM chair at the University of Amsterdam 'Thoughtful and thought provoking, the volume is an indispensable tool for anyone seriously committed to eradicating violence against women in all communities.' Pragna Patel, Southall Black Sisters, LondonTable of Contents Preface: Violence Against Women and 'Crimes of Honour' - Radhika Coomeraswamy Introduction: Honour, Rights and Wrongs - Lynn Welchman and Sara Hossain 1. The United Nations and International Advocacy on 'Crimes of Honour' - Jane Connors 2. Crimes of Honour': Value and Meaning - Purna Sen 3. The Role of 'Community Discourse' in Combatting 'Crimes of Honour': Preliminary Assessment and Prospects - Abdullahi An-Na`im 4. 'Honour Killings' and the Law in Pakistan - Sohail Warraich 5. Women Murder in Lebanon: 'Crimes of 'Honour' between Reality and the Law - The Lebanese Council to Eliminate Violence Against Women. 6. Crimes of Honour as Violence Against Women in Egypt: An Analysis and Future Prospects - The Centre for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance 7. Researching Women's Victimization in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis - Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian 8. Culture, National Minority and the State: Working against 'the Crime of Family Honour' among the Palestinian Community in Israel - Aida Touma-Sliman 9. Changing the rules? Developments on 'crimes of honour' in Jordan - Reem Abu Hassan and Lynn Welchman 10. Honour-based Violence among the Kurds: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan - Nazand Begikhani Killing 11. 'Crimes of Honour' in the Italian Penal Code: an Analysis of History and Reform - Maria Gabriella Bettiga 12. 'Legitimate Defence of Honour': A Critical study of legislation and case law in Latin America - Silvia Pimental, Val‚ria Pandjiarjian and Juliana Belloque. 13. Women's Struggles Against 'Honour Crimes' in the UK - Hannana Siddiqui 14. Forced Marriage in Bangladesh: Of Consent and Contradiction - Dina Siddiqi 15. From Fathers to Husbands: Of Love, Death and Marriage in North India - Uma Chakravarty 16. Tackling Forced Marriages in the Nordic Countries: Between Women's Rights and Immigration Control - Anja Bredal Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide provides an accessible introduction to the philosophy of restorative justice and its practical application in a wide range of settings, showing how it can help both victims and offenders when harm has been done.Drawing on many years' experience of working in victim support, probation, mediation and restorative practices, Marian Liebmann uses pertinent case examples to illustrate how restorative justice can be used effectively to work with crime and its effects. Also included are sections on confronting bullying in schools, dealing with sexual and racial violence, tackling antisocial behaviour and community reconciliation after war. Whether in the context of families, schools, communities, criminal justice or prisons, the author argues that restorative justice is a `seamless philosophy' which can be applied flexibly to meet diverse needs. Liebmann provides an international outlook, examining how restorative justice is practised around the world, including traditional Maori and Aboriginal approaches.Restorative Justice: How It Works is a key reference for magistrates, social workers, probation officers, Youth Offending Team workers, police, teachers and health professionals, as well as the lay reader.Trade ReviewIn recent years,the idea of restorative justice increasingly is on the minds of individuals and societies interested in approaches to justice that focus on restoring victims and communities rather than punishing offenders. Thus, the arrival of Liebmann's recent book on the topic represents a welcome opportunity for a summation of the history and future of the movement both in the United Kingdom, where the author is based, and abroad. Restorative Justice: How it Works aims to be broad in scope and examines restorative justice approaches in diverse contexts, including family,school,community,criminal justice, and prison environments. The Author views her book as having relevance to practitioners as well as to students and others affected by restorative justice, such as teachers and lawyers'. -- PsycCritquesIt is a joy to read a carefully considered and crafted book by an author who is a leader in their field. This is all the more so when you are being led from a state of uncertain ignorance in the subject, through to that satisfying feeling of being able to know that by the end you have some grip on the topic...Art therapy is one of Marian's passions, and her expertise and appreciation of its transformative power leaps from these pages...By placing people, and not processes, at the centre of justice and demonstrating the effect that art can have on those involved, the restorative approach brings a human element to crime and its effects. And there can be few books better that this one to guide the inquiring mind through that landscape of pain and redemption. -- Anne Peaker Centre for ArtsMarian Liebmann, already well known in the field of restorative justice (RJ), here surveys modern RJ, from its origins in Canada more than 30 years ago up to 2007. Her experience in teaching, victim support, mediation and RJ itself enables her to give this broad overview, including not only the criminal law sense of the phrase but also restorative processes or practices in many other contexts. -- Around EuropeMarian Liebmann, already well-known in the field of restorative justice (RJ) here surveys modern RJ, from its origins in Canada more than 30 years ago up to 2007. Her experience in teaching, victim support, mediation and RJ itself enables her to give this broad overview, including not only the criminal law sense of the phrase but also restorative processes or practices in many other contexts. -- The FriendMarian Liebmann's book is an excellent introduction to the field, giving a clear insight into what RJ is and how it works. This is an uplifting book. In times when we are constantly assailed on all sides by dreadful news of crimes and wars, it is heartening to learn to initiatives that bring reconciliation and reparation, and which are shown to be working. Very readable and clearly written book extremely useful. I strongly recommend this book as an excellent introduction to a topic of ever-groing importance. -- Coventry University Law JournalThe book is easy to read; it is easy to pick up and put down and pick up again to read where I left off. It's a great browsing book and at no time did I feel lost in "academic-speak." -- Carrie J Reid, PhD(Cand), RCATThe considerable achievement of this book that it covers a broad international field and explains in detail how restorative justice practice works in different context. Marian Liebmann's book is for practitioners of restorative justice, for those coming to the practice for the first time and for many professionals who need to know about it as it increasingly impinges on their work. -- Prison Service JournalThe strength of this book is in its ability to present a considerable amount of information providing a good overview of the development of restorative justice. The book benefits from the provision of examples and methods of practice which further highlight the key debates within restorative justice. One of the key debates is how restorative justice fits within a jurisdiction which views criminal justice as a 'system' rather than a 'process', and in which cultures are entrenched to the extent that there are barriers to utilising some of the benefits of restorative justice. The book would be a very useful addition to any reading list for students of restorative justice, for practitioners and policy makers. -- The Howard JournalThis comprehensive guide provides an accessible introduction to the philosophy of restorative justice and its practical application in a wide range of settings, showing how it can help both victims and offenders when harm has been done… Restorative Justice: How It Works is a key reference for magistrates, social workers, probation officers, Youth Offending Team workers, police, teachers and health professionals, as well as the lay reader. -- Practice LinksThis is an optimistic book which I am glad to have read. -- Quakers In Criminal Justice NewsletterThis is an uplifting book. In times when we are constantly assailed on all sides by dreadful news of crimes and wars, it is heartening to read about initiatives that bring reconciliation and reparation, and which are shown to be working. Those who are new to this subject will find this very readable and clearly written book extremely useful. The wealth of examples adds to the interest of the book as well as giving a deeper understanding of the processes involved in RJ, its challenges and potential. The final section which lists useful resources - books, websites and organisations - will be especially valuable to anyone seeking to enter this rewarding field. I strongly recommend this book as an excellent introduction to a topic of ever-growing importance. -- Solicitors JournalWhat is restorative justice (RJ)? This book is an excellent way to start to find out what it is, and 'what it can do'. This is an uplifting book. In times when we are constantly assailed on all sides by dreadful news of crimes and wars, it is heartending to learn of initiatives that bring reconciliation and reparation, and which are shown to be working. Those who are new to this subject will find this very readable and clearly written book extremely useful. The wealth of examples adds to the interest of the book as well as giving a deeper understanding of the process involved in RJ, its challenges and potential. The final section which lists useful resources - books, web sites and organizations - will be expecially valuable to anyone seeking to enter this rewarding field. I strongly recommend this book as an excellent introduction to a topic of ever-growing importance. -- Justice of the PeaceWhat is restorative justice? This book is an excellent way to start to find out what it is, and what it can do… Those who are new to this subject will find this very readable and clearly written book extremely useful. The wealth of examples adds to the interest of the book as well as giving a deeper understanding of the processes involved in RJ, its challenges and potential. The final section which lists useful resources - books, web sites and organizations - will be especially valuable to anyone seeking to enter this rewarding field. I strongly recommend this book as an excellent introduction to a topic of ever-growing importance. -- Justice of the Peace JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. What is Restorative Justice? 2. A Brief History of Restorative Justice. 3. Restorative Approaches Involving Victims and Offenders Separately. 4. Models of Restorative Justice Involving Victims and Offenders Together. 5. Restorative Approaches for the Early Years of Life 6. Restorative Approaches in Schools 7. Restorative Justice with Victims and Young Offenders in the UK. 8. Restorative Justice with Victims and Adult Offenders in the UK. 9. Restorative Justice in Prisons 1: Prisoners Making Amends.10. Restorative Justice in Prisons 2: Relationships in the Prison Community. 11. Restorative Justice Around the World. 12. Restorative Justice in Complex and Sensitive Cases. 13. Issues in Restorative Justice. 14. Research: A Selection. 15. Restorative Justice after Large-Scale Violence or Oppression. 16. Arts Approaches to Restorative Justice. Postscript: Growing Points. Appendix 1. Restorative Justice Consortium: Principles of Restorative Processes December (2004). Appendix 2. United Nations: Basic Principles on the Use of Restorative Justice Programmes in Criminal Matters (2002). Appendix 3. Glossary. Appendix 4. Further Reading/Resources in Restorative Justice. Appendix 5. Organisations and websites. Appendix 6. Index of case studies. Subject Index. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisDevelopments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community.Three different aspects of working with offenders are covered: developments in policy; assessment, supervision and intervention; and issues and needs. Contributions from experts in the field discuss issues such as community `punishment', case management, accreditation and resettlement. The continuing concern with promoting evidence-based solutions to crime is addressed, and this book will assist professionals working with offenders with making focused interventions supported by research.This book will be essential reading for students of social work and probation and criminology, probation officers and social workers.Trade ReviewThis book consists of a series of useful essays by 20 high-powered contributors, which on the one hand amount to an indictment of current government policies and criminal justice practice, and on the other offer details of several hopeful initiatives which may bear fruit in the future... The book considers the fascinating subject of crimogenic needs - what is it exactly that makes the offender commit the offence? Real motives are not always the ostensible ones. -- Quaker in criminal justice, Adrian SmithTable of Contents1. Introduction and Overview. Gill McIvor, Lancaster University, and Peter Raynor, University of Wales, Swansea. Part 1: Developments in Policy. 2. New Labour's Youth Justice: A Critical Assessment of the First Two Terms. Barry Goldson, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool. 3. Youth Justice: Developments in Scotland for the Twenty-First Century. Bill Whyte, University if Edinburgh. 4. Adult Offenders: Policy Developments in England and Wales. Sam Lewis, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds. 5. Developments in Probation in Scotland. Gill McIvor, Lancaster University, and Fergus McNeil, University of Glasgow. 6. Youth and Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland. Tim Chapman, Independent Consultant, Youth Justice, and David O'Mahoney, Durham University. 7. Accreditation. Sue Rex, National Offender Management Service, and Peter Raynor, University of Wales, Swansea. Part 2: Assessment, Supervision and Intervention. 8. Risk and Need Assessment. Jim Bonta, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Canada, and Stephen Wormith, University of Saskatchewan. 9. Programmes for Probationers. James McGuire, University of Liverpool. 10. Case Managing Offenders within a Motivational Framework. Frank Porporino and Elizabeth Fabiano, T3 Associates. 11. Pro-Social Modelling. Chris Trotter, Monash University, Melbourne. 12. Giving Up and Giving Back: Desistance, Generativity and Social Work with Offenders. Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow and Shadd Maruna, Queen's University, Belfast. 13. Restorative justice. Gwen Robinson, School of Law, University of Sheffield. 14. Paying Back - Unpaid Work by Offenders. Gill McIvor, Lancaster University. Part 3: Issues and Needs. 15. Developments in Work with Drug Using Offenders. Iain Crow, University of Sheffield. 16. Dealing with Diversity. Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. 17. The Resettlement of Prisoners in England and Wales: Learning from History and Research. Maurice Vanstone, Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Wales, Swansea. 18. Postcript: Opportunities and Threats. Peter Raynor, University of Wales, Swansea. The Contributors. Subject index. Author index.

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Book SynopsisThis pocket-sized guide can be taken conveniently to meetings, interviews and visits, to be used as a quick reference point for information about the practical application of restorative justice.The book covers every stage of the process, from how a facilitator should prepare for taking on a new case, through initial contacts with victim and offender and facilitating meetings, to recording and evaluating a case. While acknowledging throughout the different possible ways of proceeding, the authors provide example prompts for steps such as writing to a victim for the first time, talking to the victim and offender ahead of their meeting, and initiating meetings. They use jargon-free language and provide helpful task checklists for speed and ease of reference.This is an invaluable companion for youth offending team workers, probation officers, prison staff, police, referral order volunteers, mediators and any professional needing to know about restorative justice.Trade ReviewThis is truly a pocket-sized guide, which means that it is convenient to carry with you wherever you go. It is a quick reference tool that facilitates instant access to pertinent information about the day-to-day practice of restorative justice (RJ). It takes the reader on a journey through the RJ process, from first encounter with the concept, to the restorative "meeting" and on to the final destination of recording and evaluation. -- British Journal of Forensic PracticeI wish this book had been available when I trained as a restorative justice facilitator. It is so reassuring to refer to and can easily be carried as a aide-memoire. Designed as a guide to arranging and facilitating meetings, it is full of clear advice, obviously born of experience. -- The Howard JournalThis book's thorough approach to restorative justice is much needed and indeed it fulfils its objective. Thorough in it's advice, the book also accomplishes the purpose of being balanced. It pays as much attention to the perpetrator as it does the victim and is equally useful to everyone involved in the process. It accomplishes this through its dedication to placing steady emphasis on the different parties and also through the simplicity of its language. As manuals go it could not be any easier to read. The Pocket Guide to Restorative Justice covers every stage of the process to form a valuable guide for anyone involved in the restorative justice process. -- FrontlineRestorative justice puts the emphasis on repairing the harm caused, holding offenders to account before their victims. It is not a soft option. It is tough for an offender to continue denying the consequences of their actions when they sit across the table from their victim. This explains why restorative justice is effective in cutting re-offending. Such face-to-face meetings can also help the victim. -- Cherie Booth QCAt best restorative justice can be truly transformative for all involved which is why I believe we need to expand its role in our criminal justice system. But for restorative justice to work well also needs the involvement of highly skilled and trained staff together with good standards and clear guidance. This invaluable pocket guide from two leaders in the field will help ensure the highest quality of restorative practice. -- Cherie Booth QCA highly useful companion for youth offending team workers, probation officers, prison staff, police, referral order volunteers, mediators and any professional needing to know about RJ. -- Child RightAlthough this is a guide for practitioners, it could also work as an introduction to someone contemplating working with is wonderfully innovative approach to justice. Essential for the briefcase if you have any dealing with your justice, prison work, care homes or schools. -- The FriendTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Getting Started. 3. Contacting the Offender. 4. Contacting the Victim. 5. Assessment. 6. Agreement to Meet. 7. Preparing for the Meeting. 8. During the Meeting - Issues. 9. The Restorative Meeting. 10. Shuttle Mediation. 11. Referral Orders and Panels. 12. Recording and Evaluation. Appendix. Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisCyberspace opens up infinitely new possibilities to the deviant imagination. With access to the Internet and sufficient know-how you can, if you are so inclined, buy a bride, cruise gay bars, go on a global shopping spree with someone else's credit card, break into a bank's security system, plan a demonstration in another country and hack into the Pentagon − all on the same day. In more than any other medium, time and place are transcended, undermining the traditional relationship between physical context and social situation. This book crosses the boundaries of sociological, criminological and cultural discourse in order to explore the implications of these massive transformations in information and communication technologies for the growth of criminal and deviant identities and behaviour on the Internet. This is a book not about computers, nor about legal controversies over the regulation of cyberspace, but about people and the new patterns of human identity, behaviour and association that are emerging as a result of the communications revolution.Table of Contents1. Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality 2. Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace 3. Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet 4. The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety 5. Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net 6. What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet 7. Cyberstalking: an international perspective 8. Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hacking 9. Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements 10. Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms

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Book SynopsisThis is the first modern book on policing in Scotland and aims to provide an up-to-date and authoritative account of recent developments, taking full account of the impact of devolution and the work of the Scottish assembly. A concern throughout is to look at Scottish policing within a broader UK and comparative context, assessing both differences and similarities with policing south of the border. Contributors to the book are drawn from both academics and practitioners and include chapters on the history and development of policing in Scotland, its structure and organisation, Scottish devolution and policing, the role of policing within the wider Scottish criminal justice system, crime and policing, community policing in Scotland, policing drugs, policing and youth justice, human rights legislation and Scottish policing, and the management of Scottish policing.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Policing Scotland 2. The Organisation of Scottish Policing 3. Scottish Policing - A Historical Perspective 4. Devolution, Accountability and Scottish Policing 5. Change and Leadership in Scottish Policing: A Chief Constable's View 6. Policing Crime and Disorder in Scotland 7. Policing the Scottish Community 8. Policing Drugs in Scotland 9. Policing Youth in Scotland: A Police Perspective 10. Scottish Criminal Justice and the Police 11. Police Powers and Human Rights in Scotland 12. Semper Vigilo: The Future of Scottish Policing

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Book SynopsisIn 1997 the newly modernized Labour party swept into power promising a radical overhaul of the youth justice system. The creation of inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) for the delivery of youth justice services were the cornerstone of the new approach. These new YOTs were designed to tackle an 'excuse culture' that was allegedto pervade the youth justice system and aimed to encourage the emergence of a shared culture among youth justice practitioners from different agencies. The transformation of the youth justice system brought about a period of intense disruption for the practitioners working within it. The nature and purpose of contemporary youth justice work was called into question and wider issues of occupational identity and culture became of crucial importance. Through a detailed ethnographic study of the formation of a YOT this book explores a previously neglected area of organisational cultures in criminal justice. It examines the nature of occupational culture and professional identity through the lived experience of youth justice professionals in this time of transition and change.It shows how profound and complex of the effects of organisational change are, and the fundamental challenges it raises for practitioners' sense of professional identity and vocation. Transforming Youth Justice makes a highly significant contribution not only to the way that professional cultures are understood in criminal justice, but to an understanding of the often dissonant relationship between policy and practice.Trade ReviewDuring the lead up to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 there was much debate over the impact that such sweeping legislation would have on the landscape of youth justice. Anna SouhamiaaC--a s book outlines an extremely detailed ethnographic study from within a Youth Justice Team prior to, andleading up to, the move into a Youth Offending Team. It offers a valuable insight into the implementation and impacts of the 1998 reforms upon youth justice practitioners and their resulting struggles with occupational identity. The first part of the book documents the political basis and the origins for the transformation of the youth justice system, with Souhami arguing that whilst reforms were intended to unite the youth justice professionthey in fact brought uncertainty and a struggle for identity. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the team at the point of its initial transition. They address the concept of occupational identity, highlighting the distinctions and boundaries between the Youth Justice Team and other social work services. Chapter 3 explores the beliefs, values and aims that underpin youth justice practice andhow the youth justice worker aaC--EuidentityaaC--a resulted in an aaC--Euus and themaaC--a (p. 63) mentality promoting conflict with other agencies. The specificities of the relationship between the youth justice team and the police are the focus of Chapter 4 which relatesthe concerns and anxieties expressed by staff with the arrival of the new Police Officer. Souhami argues that the apparent divisions between the Youth Justice Team and other agenciesaaC--Eumasked the inherent ambiguity of key elements of their professional identityaaC--a (p.64). Notwithstanding this questioning of a shared identity among youth justice workers, it is clear that concerns regarding the imposition of a justice approach were rifeand that practitioners had grave reservations with regard to the tensions this would engender for their professional identity aaC--" grounded in welfare principlesaaC--" and their traditional inclination to utilize social work approaches to workwith children and young people. Part 2 of the book explores the experiences of the team as existing and new members from partner agencies respond to a context of continued uncertainty and change. Chapter 5 highlights the feelings ofexclusion and marginalization felt by partner agencies as they join the teamand documents their struggles to develop an occupational identity within anestablished social work culture. Chapter 6 focuses on the organizational change within the team and the practitionersaaC--a resistance to such change during a time when they perceived their occupational identity to be under threat. Reflecting on the wider context and relationships with local and central government, Chapter 7 examines how the YOTaaC--a s management team attempted to weather the uncertainly and change within the team and once again highlights the continued resistance on the part of youth justice professionals to change and its implications for their occupational identity. While these chapters provide valuable insights into the fast-moving and challenging contextof youth justice they were perhaps too narrowly focused on the imposition of group-work, and some expansion of this analysis into other areas of practice would have proved useful. Part 3 completes the study of transition examining the official launch of the Youth Offending Team. Chapter 8 reflects on local and national developments and the array of new court orders which followed in the wake of the 1998 Act. It outlines how such developments led the team to developa team identity and establish clarity around its boundaries, duties and aims.However, Souhami argues that this did not result in the development of a shared identity, but rather she suggests that as a result of multi-agency working aaC--Euthe crucial aspect of the YOT identity paradoxically was the incorporation of differenceaaC--a (p. 175). The final chapter draws together the bookaaC--a s key themesand arguments relating to the role of multi-agency working, an understanding of organizational identity and wider political influences. Souhami argues that the changes set in motion by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, coupled with the lack of clarity which at times surrounded them, led practitioners to question their professional identities, a situation that was further exacerbated by the emphasis on multi-agency working. Thus Souhami argues that occupational identity of youth justice professionals must be understood within the wider context of external, as well as internal, controls, policies and practices. Overall, Souhami provides a fascinating and thorough insight into the experiences of one Youth Justice TeamaaC--a s struggle with occupational identity during a time of intense pressure and uncertainty. It will prove an interesting and valuable source for youth justice practitioners, researchers and students alike. Reviewed by: James Warr, Youth Offending Flintshire Youth Offending Team, UK.Table of Contents1. Transforming youth justice 2. Occupational cultures and criminal justice Part 1: The Youth Justice Team 3. Experiences and problems of team membership 4. Working in youth justice: social work and ambiguity 5. An unrepresentative representative: being a police officer on a YOT Part 2: Ambiguity and change 6. Joining the team: problems of identity and membership 7. Experiencing change: identity, resistance and fragmentation 8. Managing ambiguity and change: power and creativity Part 3: A Youth Offending Team 9. Culture and identity in the new youth justice 10. Understanding culture and change Appendix Researching a Youth Offending Team

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Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families, and explores new evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research. It addresses a number of key challenges, arguing that by broadening the research questions and exploring contributions from a wider range of disciplines our understanding of both the pathways into and out of crime and the type of interventions that might work will be greatly enhanced.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pathways and prevention: A difficult marriage? Part One: Understanding Pathways Into and Out of Crime Introduction 1. Societal access routes and developmental pathways: putting social structure and young people's voice into the analysis of pathways into and out of crime 2. Taking the developmental pathways approach to understanding and preventing antisocial behaviour 3. Adding social contexts to developmental analyses of crime prevention 4. Risk factors and pathways into and out of crime, misleading, misinterpreted or mythic? From generative metaphor to professional myth 5. Young people, pathways and crime: beyond risk factors 6. Social exclusion, youth transitions and criminal careers: five critical reflections on 'risk' 7. What mediates the macro-level effects of economic stress on crime? 8. Repeat sexual victimisation amongst an offender sample: implications for pathways and prevention 9. A life-course perspective on bullying Part Two: Prevention Theory, Policy and Practice Introduction 10. Why early in life is not enough: timing and sustainability in early intervention and prevention 11. The pervasive impact of poverty on children: tackling family adversity and promoting child development through the Pathways to Prevention Project 12. Research-practice-policy intersections in the Pathways to Prevention Project: reflections on theory and experience 13. Leisure as a context for youth development and delinquency prevention 14. The challenges of turning developmental theory into meaningful policy and practice 15. Quality of childcare and the impact on children's social skills in disadvantaged areas of Australia 16. Policies in the UK to promote the well being of children and young people

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts to subject them to a centrally-imposed performance management regime, through to the emergence of a strong neighbourhoods agenda, combined with the imposition of a largely enforcement-oriented attack on anti-social behaviour. It also explores Labour's attempts to address the causes of crime through a policy agenda that has crystallised around themes of social exclusion, social capital, community cohesion and civil renewal; and that operates through an architecture that aspires to be joined up centrally and locally, and neighbourhood-based. The main focus of the book is upon the unfolding of Labour's 'third way' political project from the centre downwards, but the limitations of this project are exposed through an exploration of a number of key themes. These include Labour's dependence upon the different translations of local practitioners, with whom it engages in a discursive politics of crime reduction versus community safety, and through whom the conceptual and practical weaknesses of evidence-based practice, performance management and joined-up government are revealed.Trade Review'Daniel Gilling's text provides us with the definitive criminological analysis of New Labour's national project on community safety and crime prevention over the last decade. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style, it will become a classic case study of the contradictions of this UK government's ambitious if flawed governmental experiment in local crime control. Gilling's careful and penetrating diagnosis of government rhetoric and policy is measured, provocative and ultimately profoundly disturbing. 'Must read' for students, teachers, researchers and, you'd hope, practitioners and policy makers in the UK and beyond.' - Professor Gordon Hughes, Cardiff UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Labour's political project 3. Imposing the crime reduction agenda 4. From crime reduction to community safety? 5. Getting tough: anti-social behaviour and the politics of enforcement 6. Going soft? Tackling the causes of Labour's crime problem 7. Losing control: from politics into practice 8. Leaving its mark: Labour and the new landscape of local crime control

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years. For example, the 'Paying the Price' consultation exercise on sex work in 2004, and recent legislation around sex crimes, including the Sex Offences Act (2003). This is a multi-disciplinary, social scientific, pro-feminist collection, which draws upon practice, empirical research, documentary analysis and overviews of research in the areas of sex work and sexual violence. Within Sex as Crime there are two distinct sub-sections: 'Sex for Sale' and 'Sex as Violence', but the broader and overriding link of sex as crime remains a paramount theme that spans the collection. Chapters include discussions of the impact of new regulations on street sex workers, and of street sex work on community residents, the use of the internet by men who pay for sex and men who sell it, sexual violence and identity, sex crimes against children and protecting children online and working with sex offenders. Other chapters explore reasons for such offending behaviour.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Problematising Sex: Introducing Sex as Crime Part 1: Sex for Sale Introduction: Sex for Sale 1. Reinventing the Wheel: Contemporary Contours of Prostitution Regulation 2. What's Criminal about Female Indoor Sex Work?3. Intimacy, Pleasure and the Men who Pay for Sex 4. Sex, Violence and Work: Transgressing Binaries and the Vital Role of Services to Sex Workers in Public Policy Reform 5. The Bar Dancer and the Trafficked Migrant: Globalisation and Subaltern Existence 6. 'Getting Paid for Sex is my Kick': A Qualitative Study of Male Sex Workers 7. Cosmopolitanism and Trafficking of Human Beings for Forced Labour 8. The Sexual Intentions of Male Sex Workers: An International Study of Escorts Who Advertise on the Web 9. From the Oblivious to the Vigilante: The Views, Experiences and Responses of Residents Living in Areas of Street Sex Work Part 2: Sex as Violence Introduction: Sex as Violence 10. Why do 'Young People' go Missing in 'Child Prostitution' Reform?11. Yes Minister, 'Sex Violence Policy has Failed': It's Time for Sex, Violence and Crime in a Postmodern Frame 12. War and Sex Crime 13. Contradictions and Paradoxes: International Patterns of, and Responses to, Reported Rape Cases 14. Attachment Styles, Emotional Loneliness and Sexual Offending 15. Understanding Women who Commit Sex Offences 16. Sexual Offenders and Public Protection in an Uncertain Age 17. Protecting Children Online: Towards a Safer Internet 18. The 'Paedophile-in-the-community' Protests: Press Reporting and Public Responses

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comparative analysis of the potential of restorative justice approaches to dealing with mass victimization in the context of large-scale violent conflicts focusing on case studies from Kosovo, Israel-Palestine and Congo, incorporating contributions from leading authorities in these areas. One of the main objectives of the book is to examine if, how and to what extent restorative justice is applicable in various different cultural, social and historical contexts, and what common themes can be identified within the different regions under analysis. The book will also provide a critical analysis of the UN Basic Principles on the use of restorative justice programmes in criminal matters as applied to the context of large scale violence.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Part I – Introduction 1 Challenging restorative justice – State-based conflict, mass victimisation and the changing nature of warfare, Holger-C. Rohne, Jana Arsovska and Ivo Aertsen 2 Dealing with violent conflicts and mass victimisation. A human dignity approach, Finn Tschudi Part II – Case studies Section 1 The Kosovo conflict 3 Prologue to the Kosovo drama: origin, causes and consequences of a violent ethno-political conflict, Jana Arsovska, Marta Valiñas and Borbala Fellegi 4 Criminal judicial qualification and prosecution in the Racak case according to national and international legislation - Albanian perspective, Haki Demolli 5 Criminological views and informal responses to the Racak massacre according to the Albanian customary law and principles of international law - Albanian perspective, Rexhep Gashi 6 Potential for the use of informal mechanisms and responses to the Kosovo conflict - Serbian perspective, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic 7 A restorative approach for dealing with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict – Opportunities and Limits, Marta Valiñas and Jana Arsovska Section 2 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict 8 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the second intifada – A cycle of violence, Holger-C. Rohne 9 Courting the Intifada: discussing legal perspectives, Khalid Ghanayim 10 Israeli-Jewish cultural aspects of an event of violence: between biblical codes and Zionist ideology - Israeli perspective, Michal Alberstein 11 Cultural aspects in responding to violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Palestinian perspective, George Irani 12 Opportunities and limits for applying restorative justice in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Holger-C. Rohne Section 3 – The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo 13 The conflict in the DRC: a story of failed transitions and interlocking conflicts, Tyrone Savage and Kris Vanspauwen 14 Decayed, decimated, usurped and inadequate: the challenge of finding justice through formal mechanisms in the Congo, Tyrone Savage and Olivier Kambala 15 Between peace and justice: informal mechanisms in the DRC, Theodore Kamwimbi 16 Restorative justice and truth-seeking in the DRC. Much closing for peace, little opening for justice, Kris Vanspauwen and Tyrone Savage Part III – Conclusion 17 Racak, Mahane Yehuda and Nyabyondo: restorative justice between the formal and the informal, Ivo Aertsen 18 From micro to macro, from individual to state: restorative justice and multi-level diplomacy in divided societies, Jana Arsovska, Marta Valiñas and Kris Vanspauwen Index

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Book SynopsisThe separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas. Protecting the Public? explores the tension between the rights of individuals detained under criminal and mental health law and the responsibility for public protection in the little-known world of executive discretion over mentally disordered offenders. It is based on extensive and unique empirical research conducted at the UK Home Office, with legal and clinical practitioners, with civil society organisations and by reference to comparative jurisdictions. Central questions considered include: executive, judicial and tribunal decision-making; mental health and criminal law reform regarding serious or high-risk offenders; the influence of human rights law on policy and practice; and the role of civil society, particularly victim interest groups, in public policy. Through its analysis of decisions to release 'high-risk' offenders, this book goes to the heart of the public protection agenda – examining how 'the public' is constructed and what protection is provided by the exercise of executive discretion. This book will be of interest to academic and other researchers, students, policy-makers, law reformers, commentators and anyone interested in the field of criminal justice, mental health law and public policy.Trade Review'...recommended to anyone who would like a single source introduction to the topic of restricted patients.'-John Hughes, Director of Interventions, Hertfordshire Probation Trust'This is a very relevant and up-to-date book for those interested in the way managerial procedures inform practice within the field of mental health....It is informative and the primary data used provide an insider's view to a heavily-guarded and protected area of public policy.'-Manos Daskalou, University of Northampton, in the British Journal of Community Justice vol 9'...Boyd-Caine’s incisive analysis demonstrates that this system is emblematic of the increasing dominance of the risk agenda in contemporary penal policy.''There is no area which Boyd-Caine overlooks as she scrutinizes topics as complex as the fallibility of forensic psychiatry and its inadvertent collusion with the notion that mental disorder in itself is a risk factor. The exhaustive analysis offered is rich and satisfying in the justice it does to this far-from-straightforward policy area.''For those seeking an insight into the machinations that govern the restricted patient system, this book provides the answer. Further, Boyd-Caine’s grounded and principled exploration of this area goes a long way to provide evidence that the notion of public protection, in its current guise, is both nebulous and profoundly problematic in the false binaries it creates.'-Eleanor Fellowes, Probation Officer, London Probation Trust in Probation Journal, vol 58 no 4Table of Contents1. Executive Discretion and the Rule of Law 2. Care and Control 3. The Operation of Executive Discretion 4. Relationships in the System of Executive Discretion 5. Constructing 'The Public' 6. Human Rights and the Restricted Patient System 7. Patient Rights and Public Protection

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Book SynopsisAntisocial and criminal behaviour involving children and young people have been a cause of heightened public concern in England and Wales for more than a quarter of a century. It has been the subject of numerous policy papers, research studies and academic assessments as well as extensive newspaper, radio and television coverage. This has set the context for an ever expanding volume of legislation seeking to amend and improve society's official response.Yet despite a massive injection of resources into the youth justice system the results achieved have been unimpressive, reoffending remains a persistent problem and the general public appears to have little confidence in the youth justice system. The time is ripe therefore for a new look at the problem of youth offending and government and society's response to this. This book accompanies the Report of the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour, published 2010. In it leading authorities in the field, from a variety of different disciplines, review youth crime and different responses to it, focussing particularly on England and Wales but also analysing for comparative purposes the nature of responses in other parts of the world, especially Canada. It will be essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, students and others with an interest in addressing one of today's most intractable social problems.Trade Review'This volume constitutes a source of reference material on a wide range of concerns about the youth justice system. It makes a powerful case for the need for reform and aims to provide readers with the evidence and analysis to inform the design of a new, more just and constructive system of youth justice, particularly in England and Wales.' '...this book is wide ranging, and likely to be of interest to many different readers as a source of debate and as a signpost to a wealth of research and theory. It reinforces the message that we all have much to learn from experiences outside our own national boundaries.'-Bernadette Wilkinson, KWP, Independent Trainer and Consultant in Criminal Justice, in EuroVista Journal vol 2 issue 1 2012Table of Contents1. The Need for a Fresh Start 2. Changing Patterns of Youth 3. Time Trends in Youth Crime and in Justice System Responses 4. Responses to Youth Crime 5. Responses to Anti-social Behaviour 6. Causes of Offending and Anti-social Behaviour 7. Preventing Youth Crime: evidence and opportunities 8. Families and Parenting 9. Models of Youth Justice 10. Youth Justice Reform in Canada: reducing use of courts and custody without increasing youth crime 11. Public Opinion, Politics, and the Response to Youth Crime 12. Key reforms: principles, costs, benefits, politics

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated and expanded second edition of Policing Scotland takes account of recent developments in Scottish policing and criminal justice against the backdrop of a dynamic political landscape and looming fiscal constraints in public services. The book offers contributions from both academics and practitioners, and not only shows police at work in contemporary Scotland, but also gives some insight into those areas where policing is carried out by non-police people and organisations.It seeks to identify what it is about Scottish policing that is distinctly Scottish, the main characteristics of modern policing in Scotland, how these have developed over the recent past, and what they have become today. In answering these questions, the book analyses policing in Scotland in the context of the new and emerging ideas about the nature, purposes and methods of policing that are developing elsewhere in the world, and seeks to determine how far Scottish policing is maintaining its own traditions, or simply becoming a localised example of wider global trends.The second edition of this popular text introduces new chapters on crime investigation, police unionism, ethnic minorities, policing violence and forensic science, as well as incorporating a major new theme which seeks to explain how those responsible for policing Scotland set about dealing with current issues such as terrorism and organised crime. This book makes a significant contribution to the current debate on policing in Scotland, and as such is an essential text for academics and those interested in policing issues.Trade ReviewSCOTTISH HERALD Policing in Scotland should be all for one and one for all0 comments Published on 17 Jul 2010 As The Herald has reported this week, belt-tightening in the Scottish police forces has resulted in chief constables foregoing their bonuses and a freeze on recruitment being implemented.Future cuts in police budgets will, in all probability, lead to radical changes to policing in Scotland. Recent discussions in police circles have not ruled out restructuring of the eight police forces or even amalgamation into a national police service. What has been missing, however, is a meaningful and open argument of the pros and cons of structural change to policing in Scotland. A number of reasons for such change exist. First, the demands made on Scottish policing in recent years have stretched resources beyond what is comfortable, even with a marked increase in resources. Additions to the policing mandate continue with regularity, in the form of anti-terrorism measures, expanding the war on drugs, and dealing with serious organised crime networks, sex offending and computer crime, to name but some of the new responsibilities. If the police in Scotland are going to respond effectively to these issues, approp ­riate structures will have to be put in place that recognise the boundaries of crime are more likely to be national and international. Secondly, there are about 17,400 police officers and 7,500 police staff in Scotland to provide a police service for a population of five million people. Improved uniformity in training, experience, conditions of service and career structures is called for. The largest force, Strathclyde Police, has the capacity and the scale to operate in a way that brings such uniformity to half of the country. However, there is a requirement in changing times for a more flexible workforce and greater freedom of movement of personnel across Scotland to produce more integrated working and introduce a wider range of experience; the aim being to provide a more equal delivery of service to the public in all parts of the country. Without formal restructuring, the current force boundaries get in the way of such initiatives. Thirdly, because Strathclyde is responsible for at least 50% of Scotland’s policing needs, there is an obvious inequality when a single police force has a massive responsibility while the other half of Scotland is policed by no fewer than seven forces. At operational level, a divisional commander in Strathclyde has more than 1,000 personnel under his or her command, more than the total numbers in each of the three smallest forces. Yet each of these is managed by a full hierarchy of chief, deputy and assistant chief constables. Further, a range of operational specialisms is available within such a large force which cannot be provided in a smaller force. A national structure is more likely to ensure that resources are directed towards operations wherever needed.Fourthly, because of new legislation, Scottish policing is now more accountable by statute at both a national and strategic level and to local, multi-agency partnerships. In certain respects, the local political context of governance and accountability in which the police have traditionally operated is being overtaken by a national framework led by a Scottish minister charged with overseeing policing and a Scottish Parliament enacting legislation and debating issues that influence policing. This demands a police response at a more national level. Fifthly, there is a strong case for arguing that, in reality, Scotland is already very close to having a national police service, headed by a corporate board of eight chief executives under the title of Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos). Examples of national forms of police working include the National Police Board, Scottish Police Authorities Con ­veners’ Forum, Scottish Police Services Authority, National Violence Reduction Unit, Scottish Policing Performance Framework, Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and the Scottish Police Information and Co-ordination Centre. There will also be the new National Command and Control System. What, in Scottish policing, is now not national? The model of eight territorial police forces assisted by a small number of common service organisations is over-simplistic. The actual model shows a system of eight police forces delivering policing at a local level, but in co-operation with, and strongly constrained by, a multi-level and wide-ranging series of national influences. What Scotland has, to all intents and purposes, is a national police service in embryo, at such an advanced stage of development that it might only require a limited amount of financial resource and a degree of political will to create it. For many people, there are genuine anxieties about the risk of losing local democratic control but the example of Strathclyde does not suggest that a bigger scale necessarily means a weakening of local community policing. In addition, any re-structuring legislation could allow for adequate statutory protection of local policing reflecting local needs within a national framework. For the public, local policing would remain what it always has been: police officers working on local streets from a local police station led by a local commander. As for force headquarters and most of the activities that go on there, they have never figured high on the public’s radar. Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Finland and, most recently, Denmark have successfully combined national and local policing within a single organisational system. The global economic situation is so firmly rooted in every nation that politicians and communities alike will have difficult choices to make. Policing is not only expensive, with costs continuing to rise; it is also growing in complexity and global reach. Organisational structures will come under greater pressure to sustain the present level of service and to do so at less cost to the public purse. Perhaps the crisis in public finance, allied to the recession, will stimulate new thinking on police structures. The issue of principle is less about the politics and cost of restructuring but more about how more efficient and effective a restructured police service would be for the people of Scotland. The present situation is unco-ordinated, unclear, complicated and in need of transparency. Reorganisation, it is argued, would provide opportunities to introduce a more straightforward structure in which all the different policing agencies would find a home, and the various accountabilities to which policing is rightly subject would be more clearly defined. It would be a policing system easier to organise, coordinate, manage, oversee and audit in a manner that is capable of winning public confidence. In all probability, it would lead to a more efficient and effective police service for Scotland. Dr Daniel Donnelly and Dr Kenneth Scott (director) are in the Centre for Criminal Justice and Police Studies, Hamilton Campus, University of the West of Scotland. The second edition of their book Policing Scotland will be published next month.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Policing Scotland Part 1: Overview 2. Structure and Organisation of Scottish Policing 3. Scottish Policing - A Historical Perspective 4. Governance, Accountabilities and Scottish Policing 5. Managing the police resource in Scotland 6. Police Unionism in Scotland Part 2: Key Areas of Policing in Scotland 7. Policing Crime and Disorder in Scotland 8. Policing the Scottish Community 9. Young People and the Police in Scotland 10. The Police and Ethnic Monorities in Scotland 11. Crime Investigation in Scotland Part 3: Scottish Policing Contexts 12. Police Powers and Human Rights in Scotland 13.The Police and Criminal Justice in Scotland 14. Forensic Science and Policing in Scotland 15. Violence, Culture and Policing in Scotland 16. The Role of the Police in Modern Scotland - Myths and Realities Conclusions 17. Semper Vigilo: The Future of Policing in Scotland

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Book SynopsisJealousy, revenge and lust are among the oldest motives for murder. When passions run high, spurned lovers can act without a thought for the consequence. All it takes is a kitchen knife, a heavy object from the mantelpiece or a gun from the bedside cabinet..."Crimes of Passion" chronicles over 150 emotionally charged cases in which the heart ruled the head, invariably with fatal consequence. Some are spur-of-the-moment rages from betrayed partners that have elicited sympathy from judge and jury; others are more carefully planned acts of revenge and spite that have shown and received no mercy. "Crimes of Passion" covers cases form all over the world including Thompson and Bywaters, Snyder and Gray, Ruth Ellis, Howard Jacobson, Lorena Bobbitt, Susan Smith, Jane Andrews, Bertrand Cantat and Scott Peterson. The result is a chilling and compelling insight into the tortured minds of some of crime's most infamous characters.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1921-2005, Index.

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Book SynopsisThere cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland and the Highlands, while the factories, shipyards and mills buzzed with innovation. However, underneath the hustle and bustle was a different world, as an incredibly diverse criminal class worked for their own profit - with a total disregard for the law. The highways and byways were infested with robbers; garrotters jumped on the unwary; drunken brawls disfigured the evening streets; prostitutes lured foolish men into dark corners; conmen connived clever schemes; and murder was nearly commonplace. This was a dark and dangerous world, with a volatile population and the constant threat of riots. Holding back the tide of lawlessness was Britain's first professional police force, established in Glasgow in 1800. Their task of policing the city was daunting as they faced everything from petty crime to murder, the notorious Paisley Union Bank robbery to a string of jewellery thefts in the city centre. Glasgow: The Real Mean City is a fascinating account of the century-long struggle of the forces of law and order as they battled to bring peace to a troubled city.

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Book SynopsisIn analyzing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics since the late 1980s. During the closing decades of the Soviet regime, the daily struggle against shortages of goods and services precipitated a rapid increase in the black market and other underground practices, visible to all, but still deemed illegal. How did Soviet police officers and judges select the cases they dealt with on a daily basis? And how were the funds and manpower dedicated to combating 'economic crime' actually deployed? Law enforcement agencies also had to deal with the aftermath of Mikhail Gorbachev's liberal economic reforms. Russia's economy underwent far-reaching change, its judicial framework proved obsolete to combat the new challenges and its police woke up to the possibility of privatising or selling their professional knowhow. Drawing on first hand research and interviews with criminals and police officers, this scrupulous study investigates the changing nature of criminal law and policing before and after the fall of the Soviet state.

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Book SynopsisOscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1.The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those international donors who spearheaded development in poppy-growing provinces like Helmand, Nangarhar and Kandahar.Mansfield's book examines why drug control - particularly opium bans - have been imposed in Afghanistan; he documents the actors involved; and he scrutinises how prohibition served divergent and competing interests. Drawing on almost two decades of fieldwork in rural areas, he explains how these bans affected farming communities, and how prohibition endured in some areas while in others opium production bans undermined livelihoods and destabilised the political order, fuelling violence and rural rebellion.Above all this book challenges how we have come to understand political power in rural Afghanistan. Far from being the passive recipients of violence by state and non-state actors, Mansfield highlights the role that rural communities have played in shaping the political terrain, including establishing the conditions under which they could persist with opium production.

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Book SynopsisDespite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa. But why the new upsurge? The popular narrative blames a meeting of two evils - criminal poaching and terrorism. But the answer is not that simple.Since ancient times, large-scale killing of elephants for their tusks has been driven by demand beyond Africa's range states from the Egyptian pharaohs through the industrialising West to the new wealthy business class of China. Elephant hunting in Africa is also governed by human-elephant conflict, traditional hunting practices and the impact of colonial exploitation and criminalisation.Ivory follows this complex history of the tusk trade in Africa, and explains why it is corruption, crime and politics, rather than insurgency, that we should worry about. In this ground-breaking work, Somerville argues that regulation - not prohibition - of the ivory trade is the best way to stop uncontrolled poaching.Trade Review'Part historical overview, part polemic and call for policy change, [Keith's] book is dedicated not only to those who gave or risk their lives to conserve elephants but also to "those who have the courage to question the ruling orthodoxy" that burnings and bans save elephants. The author's own appetite for questioning - from the "flexible meanings" of the word "poaching" to the high ideals and more nuanced realities of NGOs' work - makes for informative reading.' * Times Higher Education *'[A] meticulously documented record of an economic activity that has spanned millennia . . . Somerville has made a valuable contribution towards documenting the history of the ivory trade.' -- The Times Literary Supplement'Combating elephant poaching in Africa has become an international priority, attracting Hilary Clinton, Jackie Chan and Prince Harry to its cause. Drawing on decades of experience as a seasoned journalist, Keith Somerville eloquently writes about the politics of ivory poaching in Africa and shows why we should care.' * Dr Alex Vines OBE, Head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House and Senior Lecturer at Coventry University *'Keith Somerville has written a pioneering study in the field of wildlife conservation. Based on a formidable list of sources, the argument is well constructed and superbly expressed. The text will prove an invaluable guide to both scholars and those engaged in the struggle to preserve an asset of incomparable value.' * Professor Jack Spence OBE, Kings College London *'This is an urgently-needed book that strips away the myths around the fast-changing scene of ivory poaching. For this task there is nobody better than Keith Somerville, who has kept a beady eye on Africa for many years.' * Jasper Humphreys, Director of External Relations, The Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and the Non Human Sphere, Department of War Studies, King's College, London *'Somerville's analysis of the booming ivory trade under colonial rule is masterly: more firearms, more organized trading, and greater demand for ivory in the West meant escalated killing. He shows the more pernicious, lasting effect to be the alienation of indigenous people from control over wildlife, which happened when British game officials banned Africans from hunting while encouraging white trophy pursuers.' * Robert Eagan, Library Journal *'[A] devastating and majestic history of the supply chain from Africa. […] Somerville has produced the best academic account to date of the history of the supply side of this catastrophic trade.' * Joanna Lewis, Africa at LSE blog *'This excellent book clearly captures the reasons for killing elephants in Africa, and the perils we face in trying to save them. The historical and political dimensions of the phenomenon are often under-stated, but here corruption is shown to be at the heart of the ivory trade, and human conflicts have provided the arena in which large-scale corruption takes place.' * Lucy Vigne, ivory and rhino horn researcher *'This thoroughly researched volume delves into intricate detail regarding the historical and current status of elephants and ivory trading. An excellent addition to an advanced course or seminar on conservation biology, sustainable use, or wildlife policy.' -- CHOICE

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Book SynopsisThe role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers. But, as Milka Kahn and Anne Veron reveal in this absorbing book, women have always been at the heart of Italy's criminal organisations, as the guarantors of mafia culture. While the men are behind bars or on the run, it is left to their wives and mothers to uphold and pass on the 'family values'. Once widowed, they push their sons to vendetta; they are increasingly becoming mafia chiefs in their own right. Yet many also decide to risk their lives and break with 'the Family', collaborating with the authorities and renouncing mafia society in search of a normal life. So who are these women? Are they pure Madonnas, or dangerous Godmothers? Women of Honour paints a complex and fascinating portrait through extremely rare interviews with the women themselves, who have overcome a culture of silence to share their extraordinary lives.Trade Review'Kahn and Véron have trawled newspapers and legal documents and interviewed dozens of women to provide vivid stories of tough-minded female bosses, ruling without mercy.' -- Times Literary Supplement'These fascinating stories of courage, collaboration and criminal mastery offer new insight into the changing role of women in mafia culture.' * Clare Longrigg, author of Mafia Women *'Engrossing. Kahn and Véron take us into a world in which women play an important role but in which — with few exceptions — their identities, their private lives and sex lives all belong to their menfolk; a world in which rebellion leads inexorably to either life on a witness protection programme, or death.' * John Hooper, author of The Italians *

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Book SynopsisA Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be effective in combating child sexual abuse.This book explains this pioneering approach to managing the behaviour of sex offenders in the community. It provides an overview of sexual abuse, sex offenders and their management, and the Circles approach. The authors set out the development of Circles since they were first started in Canada, the principles of Circles and how they work in practice, and evidence and evaluation of their effectiveness. The use of Circles is brought to life by testimonies from four sex offenders and four volunteers who tell, often movingly, why they joined a Circle, their experiences, and the effects upon them.This unique book, on a ground-breaking approach to managing sex offenders, will be of great interest to professionals across social care and the criminal justice system, including prison and probation services, the police, social workers, counsellors and all those working with sex offenders, including volunteers.Trade Review... written by three authors perfectly placed to comment on this important and growing contribution to the risk management of sex offenders... Overall, this is a valuable book. Although, as stated by the authors, it is not an academic contribution, it will nevertheless be useful for students at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is thus described as a text for those who either know very little about sex offenders or who want to find out more, or who particularly want to know more about Circles. Notwithstanding this, as stated above, Chapter 5 and the empiricalresearch contained within it should be of interest to all academics and practitioners involved in the treatment and management of community-based sex offenders, and for this reason the book is highly recommended. -- Restorative Justice: An International Journal(...) the child sex offender accounts were well judged and sensitively portrayed, and would certainly provide a non-sensationalist and balanced glimpse of the emotionally complex world of the child sex offender which would be instructive to all professionals developing their understanding in this area of work. -- The British Journal of PsychiatryHanvey et al have produced a gem of a book, which successfully explains and explores one approach to sexual offending that is appearing to succeed in genuinely addressing these quandaries effectively...I would recommend this book to all and sundry, indeed it would offer the wider world an antidote to the portrayal of monsters that is the stuff of the tabloid journalism. More specifically though, this has book has an immense amount to offer both those already engaged in working with sexual offending and its consequences, and to those students of psychology and social science. -- Euro VistaIt is a must read for anyone working (or planning to work) within the criminal justice system and allied fields, as well as for students across a wide range of disciplines from criminology to theology. -- The British Journal of Forensic Practiceessential reading for those working in statutory agencies considering or already involved in a circle, and for potential circles volunteers. Would-be core members themselves, if they were to read the book, might already start to see themselves differently. -- Probation JournalAs a circles volunteer myself, I would say that this book provides an accurate account of the work of circles, as seen from a number of viewpoints. What I read in the book matches precisely my own experience! I would see it as essential reading for those working in statutory agencies considering or already involved in a circle, and for potential circles volunteers. Would-be core members themselves, if they were to read the book, might already start to see themselves differently. -- Probation JournalThe book explicitly targets the interested lay person as its primary audience, and in doing so, achieves an easy conversational style and a refreshing absence of jargon throughout. Certainly, the intelligent public and the non-specialist professional (perhaps police or local authority staff) will find both the COSA model and this book interesting and informative... My own view is that the child sex offender accounts were well judged and sensitively portrayed, and would certainly provide a non-sensationalist and balanced glimpse of the emotionally complex world of the child sex offender which would be instructive to all professionals developing their understanding in this area of work. -- British Journal of PsychiatryThey have created a hugely accessible book, in which we are provided with some contextual background for Circles "evolution, explicit narratives of those involved, evaluation considerations of Circles" contribution and an exploration of media portrayals of sexual offending... I would recommend this book to all and sundry, indeed it would offer the wider world an antidote to the portrayal of monsters that is the stuff of the tabloid journalism... Such a successfully retelling of one of the more alternative and effective interventions in a world currently obsessed with offender and care management, can only help to readdress and inform a balance of perspectives. -- Euro Vista: Probation & Community Justice JournalThe book will appeal chiefly to those who have a professional interest in the supervision of sexual offender; but it also provides a fascinating read for anyone interested in safeguarding children and adults at risk of sexual aggression... The book's positive message is that whilst sexual offending takes place within the community and causes much harm, the community can respond and successfully manage sexual offenders. This is a highly readable, informative and welcome addition to the literature on sex offending, safeguarding and public policy. -- Therapy TodayIt is a must read for anyone working (or planning to work) within the criminal justice system and allied fields, as well as for students across a wide range of disciplines from criminology to theology. -- British Journal of Forensic PracticeThis book offers an unusual and interesting perspective on work with one of the most unpopular of all offender groups. It should be of interest to all those who work with offenders in the community. -- Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, UKThis book is written by three authors perfectly placed to comment on this important contribution to the risk management of sex offenders... I think this is a good book... probably better served as a resource for those who either know very little about sex offenders or who particularly want to know more about Circles... if you a pondering whether or not to become a Circles volunteer then this should be core reading. -- Prison Service JournalThe book's strength lies in (...) the largely-unedited stories of eight Circles' participants gathered through in-depth interviews, four with men convicted of sex offences against children, four with community volunteers. The probing interviews offer insightful, frequently unheard, perspectives, particularly when it comes to the former offenders themselves... in addition to their interviews, the authors provide a useful summary of academic research, including recidivism studies, on the model's effectiveness... This is an engaging, informative book, suited to academics, policy makers, practitioners, as well as current and potential community volunteers interested in constructive responses to sexual offending. -- Emma Hughes, Associate professor, California State University * The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Beginning of the Circle: A History of Circles of Support and Accountability. 2. A Man Like Others? What We Know About Sex Offenders. 3. Managing the Problem: Working with People Convicted of Sexual Offences. 4. Within the Circle: The Realities of Practice. 5. The Men's Stories and the Volunteers' Stories. 6. But Does it Work? Evaluation and Evidence. 7. Publish and Damn: The Media and Sex Offending. Endnotes. References. About the Authors. Subject Index. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world. This ground-breaking work explores how criminology can apply longstanding, traditional crime prevention techniques to the digital realm. It provides an overview of the key principles, concepts and research literature associated with crime prevention, and discusses the interventions most commonly applied to crime problems. The authors review the theoretical underpinnings of these and analyses evidence for their efficacy. Cybercrime Prevention is split into three sections which examine primary prevention, secondary prevention and tertiary prevention. It provides a thorough discussion of what works and what does not, and offers a formulaic account of how traditional crime prevention interventions can be reimagined to apply to the digital realm. Trade Review Table of ContentsSeries Editor PrefaceCHAPTER 1: SETTING THE SCENEIntroductionApproaches to crime preventionFactors associated with cyber-dependent offendingParameters of the reviewOverview of the bookReferencesPART I: PRIMARY FORMS OF PREVENTIONCHAPTER 2: SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTIONIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for the interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesCHAPTER 3: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIESIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesPART II: SECONDARY FORMS OF PREVENTIONCHAPTER 4: EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPSIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesCHAPTER 5: MENTORING PROGRAMSIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for the interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesCHAPTER 6: TARGETED WARNINGS AND POLICE CAUTIONSIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for the interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesPART III: TERTIARY FORMS OF PREVENTIONCHAPTER 7: POSITIVE DIVERSIONSIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesCHAPTER 8: RESTORATIVE JUSTICEIntroductionTheoretical underpinnings of the interventionCurrent applicationsEvidence base for interventionFuture applications and adaptations to digital contextsReferencesCHAPTER 9: DESIGNING AND EVALUATING CRIME PREVENTION SOLUTIONS FOR THE DIGITAL AGENavigating the cybercrime intervention minefieldSelecting the appropriate study designSourcing the best possible dataBeing attentive to ethical issuesAcknowledging generalisability concernsCharting a path forward for researchers and practitionersReferences

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Book SynopsisPolicing and firearms: it is a crucial relationship. Should police be routinely armed? If so, what restrictions should be imposed on the use of firearms? Where police are not routinely armed, there is still a need for specialist armed police: how do these units operate, and are they effective?This ground-breaking edited book explores the nexus between policing and firearms with a genuinely international focus. Contributors from Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada explore the issues from a range of perspectives, including human rights, militarization, police legitimacy, and the risks police firearms pose to the community and to police themselves.This thought-provoking collection is an indispensable resource for law enforcement policymakers and students of policing and criminal justice.Table of Contents1. Introduction Richard Evans & Clare Farmer Part 1: Policing, Firearms and Human Rights 2. Unarmed Police: Myths, Rights and Realities 3. Are the Brazilian Police Forces lethal weapons? 4. The Routine Arming of the Police in Britain, the Right to Life and the Security Theory of John Locke and Benedict de Spinoza 5. Armed responses and Critical Shots: Learning lessons from Police involved shootings in England and Wales Part 2: Policing, Firearms and Militarization 6. ‘Gung-ho’? An examination of the move to militarise policing in Australia 7. Direct and indirect militarization of public security in Mexico and gun use during arrests 8. The myth of ‘routinely unarmed’ policing 9. Racism down the Barrel of the Colonial Gun Part 3: Policing, Firearms and Risk 10. Access to firearms – A risk factor for police suicide? 11. How do police die in Venezuela? A comprehensive analysis of the death by homicide of State security force/policing officials 12. Pathways to preventing fatal police-involved shootings of people in mental health crisis 13. ‘Facing death gave him new life’: On-screen police gun violence and Weapon Product Placement Part 4: Policing, Firearms and Legitimacy 14. Predictors of public reactions to armed police: Findings from the UK 15. Armed police in an unarmed country: Legitimacy and self-legitimacy of English firearms officers 16. Public Acceptance of Police Use of Deadly Force: An Exploratory Study 17. Connecting officer appearance with officer safety: A survey of police officers’ perceptions of uniforms and accoutrements

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. A Faith-Based Spiritual Theory.- Chapter 2.  Method.- Chapter 3. The Pyramid Model and the Basic Premises .- Chapter 4. The Causes of Criminality.- Chapter 5. The Social Response Punishment and Rehabilitation.- Chapter 6. Positive Spiritual Jewish Criminology.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Domestic Violence Defined.- Chapter 3. The Rise of Social Media Platforms.- Chapter 4. Misinformation Regarding Domestic Violence.- Chapter 5. Overall Misinformation on Intimate Partner Violence on Social Media Platforms.- Chapter 6. Police Communication on IPV.- Chapter 7. Courts Personnel and IPV Communication.- Chapter 8. Corrections Personnel and IPV Communication.- Chapter 9. Therapists/Counselors and IPV Communication.- Chapter 10. Academics and Intimate Partner Violence Communication.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.

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