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Book SynopsisExploring High-risk Offender Treatment and the Role of Music Therapy explores the treatment delivered to high-risk offenders with complex needs, focusing on sex and violent offenders. The book advocates for the further use of less traditional and creative therapies, in particular, music therapy.The higher the risk, the greater the needs. Offenders with complex needs have a range of factors impacting their abilities and well-being including mental health and learning disorders. Importantly, high-risk offenders commonly present with complex needs and, therefore, require treatment that is highly responsive. Guiding this book is the existing literature and qualitative research, conducted by the author, that sought to gain the perspectives and experiences of practitioners in the field. This included 38 interviews with those that deliver treatment to high-risk offenders and music therapy. This book examines the components of high-risk offender treatment, highlighting Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: EXPLORING HIGH-RISK OFFENDER TREATMENT AND CREATIVE CORRECTIONS1. The Higher the Risk, the Greater the Needs: High-risk Offender Treatment 2. Contemporary Offender Treatment from the Practitioner’s Perspective3. Moving Towards a Creative Corrections Approach PART II: MUSIC THERAPY AS A COMPONENT OF OFFENDER TREATMENT 4. Exploring the Research: Music Therapy for Offending Behaviour5. The Practitioner’s Perspective and Experience of Music Therapy for High-risk Offenders 6. The Role of Music Therapy in High-risk Offender TreatmentAppendicesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that arise in connection with various forms of transnational crime, the authors outline the criminal justice responses adopted across different jurisdictions. Including contributions from high profile Chinese and European academics and practitioners across a variety of disciplines and methodological backgrounds, the authors address some of the hitherto underexplored issues related to transnational crime. These range from trafficking in cultural objects derived from illicit metal-detecting and metal-detecting tourism in China to the European approaches to criminalising the denial of historical truth. The central theme of the book is that useful lessons can be drawn from each other's experiences, and that a cross-fertilisation of domestic approaches to transnational crime is essential to effective cooperation.This book will be of usTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Global Governance of Transnational Crime: Implications for Justice and The Rule of Law Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Cybercrime 3. Introduction to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations in China: Institutions, Legal Framework and Practices 4. Acts of Charity and Acts of Terrorism: Regulation and Prosecution 5. On the Improvement of Criminal Legislation and Criminal Policy to Deter Cross-Border Money Laundering in China 6. Transnational Cybercrime and Cybercrime by Transnational Organisations Art Crime and Historical Memory 7. Paint It Black": "Simple" and Increasingly "Professional" Looting of Antiquities with Metal Detectors in East Asia 8. From Canvas to Ashes: Understanding the Implications of the Westfries Museum and Kunsthal Thefts for the Dutch Art World 9. Expression Crimes and the Creation and Protection of Historical Memory by Means of Criminal Law Comparative Perspectives on Corruption and Financial Crime 10. Relocating Bribery: Facilitation Payments as a Crime Against the Market? 11. Credit Card Fraud in Chinese Criminal Law 12. China’s Legal Framework and Challenges of the Freezing, Seizure And Confiscation Of Financial Crime Proceeds Environmental Crime 13. Targeting Transnational Environmental Crime Through a Multifaceted Approach: Towards an Inclusive Governance of Serious Threats to Sustainable Development 14. Preventing Illicit Waste-Exports from the Netherlands to China 15. Motivators for IUU Fishing in the Indo-Pacific

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Book SynopsisCriminal Law: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the legal aspects of criminal acts, ranging from battery to burglary and harassment to homicide.Starting with an in-depth exploration of the very concept of crime, the book considers key questions such as: How should we decide what is criminal and what isn't? What is the difference between murder and manslaughter? Could you ever be guilty of stealing your own property? What defences are available to those accused of crime?Featuring a range of case studies, from the infamous to the bizarre, the new edition has been thoroughly updated to include new material on loss of control, accessorial liability, dishonesty, causation, liability, manslaughter and sexual offences. Relevant cases, statutes and suggestions for further reading are included throughout, making Criminal Law: The Basics the ideal starting point for anyone studying this area for the first time.Table of Contents1. Basic Concepts in Criminal Law; 2. Homicide; 3. Assault; 4. Property Offences; 5. Accomplice and Inchoate Offences; 6. Defences

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Book SynopsisThe Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse.Recent high-profile reports have highlighted an urgent need for effective multi-agency work to tackle the issues of criminalisation and exploitation of children and young people in care. However, progress to date has been slow, and it is clear that there is still some way to go before effective multi-agency working becomes widespread. In response, this book draws upon the experiences and perspectives of practitioners from a sample of co-located Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs, as well as the latest research, theory and policy developments in the field. In doing so, it explores both the benefits and challenges of multi-agency working and concludes with recommendations for future policy and prTrade Review"It is ironic to say the least that local authority care, which is intended to offer vulnerable young people care and protection, too often instead has served to propel them into the criminal justice system. This book offers a lucid account of how the exploitation and criminalisation of young people in care can occur, together with the challenges for multi-agency working and recommendations for more effective approaches. Anyone working in the care and justice sectors will benefit from reading it."David Berridge, Emeritus Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies"The phrase 'out of care, into custody' is one well used to denote one of the ways in which many young people find themselves on the road to crime and victimisation. Little work tackles the 'what can be done about this' question. In this original and ground breaking work Shaw and Greenhow chart ways of both understanding and influencing the ways in which multi-agency partnerships can make a difference to the lives of these young people. Focused on recommendations for action, it a book that must be read by practitioners and academics alike."Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Liverpool University"The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care addresses a major concern for those responsible for the safety and security of children and young people in residential and foster care. It draws on original research with practitioners from various agencies involved in the care and protection of young people to highlight the complex and multi-layered nature of the risks, and the need for more effective, multi-agency responses. This is a significant, evidence-based contribution to the field, which details important lessons for policy and practice in safeguarding children and young people in care."Andrew Kendrick, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde "It is ironic to say the least that local authority care, which is intended to offer vulnerable young people care and protection, too often instead has served to propel them into the criminal justice system. This book offers a lucid account of how the exploitation and criminalisation of young people in care can occur, together with the challenges for multi-agency working and recommendations for more effective approaches. Anyone working in the care and justice sectors will benefit from reading it." - David Berridge, Emeritus Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies"The phrase 'out of care, into custody' is one well used to denote one of the ways in which many young people find themselves on the road to crime and victimisation. Little work tackles the 'what can be done about this' question. In this original and ground breaking work Shaw and Greenhow chart ways of both understanding and influencing the ways in which multi-agency partnerships can make a difference to the lives of these young people. Focused on recommendations for action, it a book that must be read by practitioners and academics alike." - Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Liverpool University."The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care addresses a major concern for those responsible for the safety and security of children and young people in residential and foster care. It draws on original research with practitioners from various agencies involved in the care and protection of young people to highlight the complex and multi-layered nature of the risks, and the need for more effective, multi-agency responses. This is a significant, evidence-based contribution to the field, which details important lessons for policy and practice in safeguarding children and young people in care." - Andrew Kendrick, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Setting the Scene; Chapter 2: Advantages and challenges of multi-agency working; Chapter 3: Theory and Methodology; Chapter 4: Criminalisation; Chapter 5: Exploitation; Chapter 6: Perspectives of MASH Team working: approaching a ‘community of practice’?; Chapter Seven: Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Book SynopsisInvisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punishment in the UK. Through case studies, court transcripts, and biographical accounts it reimagines the understanding/s of the role of history in shaping contemporary perceptions. The book: Moves beyond the confines of presenting criminological history' as monocultural Demonstrates how mainstream criminology' is complicit in obscuring hidden criminological histories'' Critically assesses the implications regarding the positioning of the black presence' within the discipline of criminology Revises current thinking around excluded, marginalized, and muted histories, when looking at crime and punishment' as a whole. The opening chapters lay the foundation for locating the historical black presence in crime and punishment, whilst offering practicalTrade Review‘Thrillingly unique and meticulously researched, Glynn provides an urgent re-imagination of criminology as we know it.’David Lammy, MP‘Glynn makes an impassioned plea to locate the historical within the contemporary and black presence within the absence. The collation of historical sources invite the reader to envision an illuminating black historical criminological imagination that offers an important disciplinary contribution.’Professor Coretta Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science‘Black people’s presence in the history of criminal justice in the UK suffers from a fate even worse than the "enormous condescension of posterity" that E. P. Thompson says was imposed on the English working class. With this book Glynn supplies a corrective as he rescues black "activists, advocates, revolutionaries, writers and artists" from the oblivion of white erasure. Out of the archives rise the voices of black people from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. Court transcripts, crime registers, slave trades, and other sources provide a presence that Glynn fashions into an important narrative. It is a narrative against condescension and oppression that points to a richer future for criminology.’Rod Earle, Senior Lecturer in Youth Justice, The Open University'Glynn argues that the discipline of criminology cannot continue to be shaped by "academic neutrality" which often involves omitting the historical experiences of Black people. Glynn shares real accounts of the brutalisation and dehumanisation that slaves were subjected to. He provides an evidence-based backdrop to the powerful points he makes about the ties of slavery to present-day systemic racism. Glynn also shares evidence of an ex-slave providing testimony in court; perhaps you were - as Glynn was - unaware that ex-slaves were permitted to testify in court. In sharing this account, Glynn highlights that the version of the history of the UK’s justice system most commonly cited is limited and excludes historic and significant Black voices. We often learn of White trailblazers or ‘elite’ Black figures active in the abolitionist movement but seem to have collective amnesia when it comes to Black activists, writers, speakers, potent forces for social progress for centuries. Glynn argues that unless we admit - academically and in society at large - that "the historical other’" continue to be reproduced in modern systems of oppression, "a continuing legacy of racialized dominance" will be perpetuated.' Mia Edwards, Policy and Communications Officer, Alliance for Youth JusticeTable of ContentsSECTION 1 Locating the Black Presence in Crime and Punishment Prologue CHAPTER 1 Towards a Black (Historical) Criminological Imagination CHAPTER 2 Researching the Black Presence in Crime and Punishment CHAPTER 3 Gathering the Information CHAPTER 4 Don’t Gaslight Me, Slavery Matters SECTION 2 Trials and Transcripts CHAPTER 5 The Case of Arthur William Hodge CHAPTER 6 The Case of John Kimber CHAPTER 7 The Case of Sir Thomas Picton CHAPTER 8 The Case of William Woodcock CHAPTER 9 The Case of John Hogan SECTION 3 Black Voices Speak CHAPTER 10 Visible Voices Provocation The Case of James Sommersett – The Negro Case Olaudah Equiano Mary Prince Ottobah Cugoano CHAPTER 11 Activists, Participants, and Rulers Provocation William Davidson – Cato Street Conspiracy William Cuffay The Chartist Movement Robert Wedderburn The Ten-Point Program Black Police Officers Robert Branford, 1817–1869: London Police Superintendent John Kent 190 Richard ‘King Dick’ Crafus CHAPTER 12 McNaughton and Black Rage Epilogue Criminologist as Historian

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Book SynopsisSince its publication, the first edition of Fingerprints and Other Ridge Skin Impressions has become a classic in the field. This second edition is completely updated, focusing on the latest technology and techniquesincluding current detection procedures, applicable processing and analysis methodsall while incorporating the expansive growth of literature on the topic since the publication of the original edition.Forensic science has been challenged in recent years as a result of errors, courts and other scientists contesting verdicts, and changes of a fundamental nature related to previous claims of infallibility and absolute individualization. As such, these factors represent a fundamental change in the way training, identifying, and reporting should be conducted. This book addresses these questions with a clear viewpoint as to where the professionand ridge skin identification in particularmust go and what efforts and research will help deveTable of ContentsFriction Ridge Skin and Prints. Friction Ridge Identification Process. Chemistry, Light, and Photography. Fingermark Detection and Enhancement. Issues Related to the Exploitation of Fingerprints and Fingermarks. Conclusions. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most current and ground-breaking research across the world of policing with contributors from over 20 countries. It is also a suitable reference or textbook in a special topics course. It consists of edited versions of the best papers presented at the IPES annual meeting in Budapest.Table of ContentsSection I: LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY1 Policing: Continuity and Change PETER C. KRATCOSKI2 Police Executive Leadership and Police Legitimacy VIPUL KUMAR3 On the Acceptability of Closer Public–Private Policing Partnerships: Views from the Public Side STEPHEN B. PERROTT AND KRYSTINA TRITES4 Reactive and Proactive Measures of Police Corruption Control: Comparative Study in Three Countries BRANISLAV SIMONOVIC, MAXIMILIAN EDELBACHER, AND BAKHIT NURGALIYEVSection II: ANALYSIS5 Using Complaints against the Police to Improve Community–Police Relations JANE GOODMAN-DELAHUNTY, MIRA TAITZ, CHANTAL SOWEMIMO-COKER, AND IDA NGUYEN6 Cybercrime, Cyberattacks, and Problems of Implementing Organizational Cybersecurity ANTHONY MINNAAR7 Intelligence Analysis: A Key Tool for Modern Police Management—The Romanian Perspective SORINA-MARIA COFAN AND AUREL-MIHAIL BĂLOISection III: SATISFACTION AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS8 Paradigm Shift in Hong Kong Public Order Policing WING KWONG YUNG AND SANDY CHAU9 Citizen Satisfaction with Police: The Effects of Income Level and Prior Victimization Experiences on Citizen Perceptions of Police ROBERT D. HANSER, CREEL S. GALLAGHER, AND ATTAPOL KUANLIANG10 Transformations in Policing—Two Decades of Experience in Community Policing in Slovenia BRANKO LOBNIKAR, GORAZD MEŠKO, AND MAJA MODIC11 Policing by Consent: Exploring the Possibilities of Functional Linkage between Local Police Station and Panchayat SONY KUNJAPPANThe International Police Executive Symposium Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the United States' systematic expulsion of undesirables and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengerswho travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains. The United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment and deportation that the world has ever known. The Deportation Express is the first history of American deportation trains: a network of prison railroad cars repurposed by the Immigration Bureau to link jails, hospitals, asylums, and workhouses across the country and allow forced removal with terrifying efficiency. With this book, historian Ethan Blue uncovers the origins of the deportation train and finds the roots of the current moment, as immigrant restriction and mass deportation once again play critical and troubling roles in contemporary politics and legislation. A century ago, deportation trains made coTrade Review"More than simply documenting migrants’ trials and tribulations, Blue highlights the increasingly constricted lines around U.S. citizenship in the 1910s. . . . The Deportation Express makes a meaningful contribution as the first book to examine the mechanics of expulsion during 'the age of rail-based removal.'" * Journal of Social History *"The Deportation Express is a breath of fresh air. It carefully combines theoretical understandings that provide insight into the inhumane practices of state control and violence, while using archival reproduction to illuminate narratives that center the human element in an inhumane system." * Journal of Arizona History *"Blue’s decision to use a series of microhistories. . . . highlights the brutal impacts of forced deportation on individuals, and the injustices inherent within the developing American State and the capitalist system it both supported and depended on. The microhistories teach us much about the racism, violence and cruelty of the early-twentieth-century American immigration system, designed to provide capital with cheap labor from foreign workers who could then be spat out over the border when they no longer had use or value." * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"The Deportation Express demonstrates how the United States emerged as a leader of global racial capitalism by this time, as well as the role that the immigration carceral state played in constructing and maintaining those hierarchies. . . . Blue’s detailed history of these early deportation trains provides an important foundation for understanding the 'twenty-first-century infrastructure of capture.'" * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Offers valuable insights on how racism and exclusionary borders take shape through physical infrastructure. These insights can help us understand the terrible costs of war, and the true wages of peace, from the standpoint of the global majority." * Public Books *"The Deportation Express is not only a true pleasure to read and a critical contribution to our understanding of state power and migration control in the early twentieth century. It is also a thoroughly moving account of the individuals and communities who experienced this power, and a model to historians seeking to craft nuanced, humanizing representations of their subjects." * American Historical Review *"The Deportation Express is a story about each of us, as participants in an ongoing national experiment, and our collective work to shape our discourse, values, and identity as a United States community." * Southern California Quarterly *"Elegantly written and amasses a monumental amount of research. . . . Ethan Blue’s book urges immigration activists and scholars to continue to embrace an abolitionist framework, tracing and disrupting the way that the immigration- and border-industrial complex are interwoven with and integral to the US settler-colonial, carceral state." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A valuable contribution to several growing fields. . . . Blue uncovers…the underlying vision of this “deportation regime” and its evolving historical entanglement with race and ethnicity in the era of U.S. immigration restriction." * California History *"The Deportation Express presents a compelling and interesting history of American immigration enforcement. . . . a critical addition to many fields of inquiry including American history and studies as well as immigration studies." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Building the Deportation State 1 • Planning the Journey Part Two: Eastbound 2 • Seattle 3 • Portland 4 • San Francisco 5 • Denver 6 • Chicago 7 • Buffalo 8 • Ellis Island Part Three: Westbound 9 • Carbondale 10 • New Orleans 11 • San Antonio 12 • El Paso 13 • Angel Island Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA critical examination of how contemporary criminal justice reforms expand rather than shrink structurally violent systems of policing, surveillance, and carceral control in the United States. Public opposition to the structural racist, gendered, and economic violence that fuels the criminal legal system is reaching a critical mass. Ignited by popular uprisings, protests, and campaigns against state violence, demands for transformational change have escalated. In response, a now deeply entrenched so-called bipartisan industry has staked its claim to the reform terrain. Representing itself as a sensible bridge across bitterly polarized political divides and party lines, the bipartisan reform industry has sought to control the nature and scope of local, state, and federal reforms. Along the way, it creates an expanding web of neoliberal public-private partnerships, with the promotion and implementation of efforts managed by billionaires, public officials, policy factories, foundationTrade Review"While scholars will find much in Carceral Con enlightening, the book is no standard academic text. Rather, it is a movement-building tool intended to assist readers in ‘critically interrogat[ing] new [reform] proposals as they arise’ and in choosing the ‘radically different way forward’ of abolition." * The Nation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: World Making and "Criminal Justice Reform" 1. Correctional Control and the Challenge of Reform 2. Follow the Money 3. Criminalization, Policing, and Profiling 4. The Slippery Slope of Pretrial Reform 5. Courts, Sentencing, and "Diversion" 6. Imprisonment and Release 7. Threshold Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhat started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books.In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to:- Lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota)- Play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California)- Catch a fish with a lasso (Tennessee) Rich''s first problem was narrowing down the huge choice of laws to just twenty-five. The second was persuading his mate Bateman to come along, to do some of the driving - and possibly provide bail money. The third was finding someone who was willing to help him break his first law: one of San Francisco''s oldest statutes, which related to oral sex. No, Bateman couldn''t help with that one.Join Rich as he attempts his one-man crime wave - almost as difficult as a one-man Mexican wave.Trade ReviewBrilliant and funny...An outrageous romp of a book that feels like it's been waiting for someone to write it forever * Sunday Sport *Smith and a friend go on a mission to break 25 of America's dumbest laws, such as falling alseep in a cheese factory and catching fish with a lasso. Hilarious * Nuts magazine *Opinion is divided in the office on this one... half of us (the girl half) has fallen in love with this student joker and think traversing America while breaking its ridiculous laws is a funny idea...The other half is full of bravado about how they did this sort of thing all the time while at university, too. Either way, it's good for a titter on a long-haul flight * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student. All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including classical and rational choice, biological, psychological, and evolutionary, social structural, social process, critical, general, and integrated approaches. Copious examples of the spirit of the theories are supplied, many with a popular culture (e.g., film and music) connection. The highly original final chapter, titled ''Putting Criminological Theory to Work,'' provides readers with an integrated theoretical model that students can apply to virtually any type of crime. The book is well suited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in criminology, criminal justice, and deviance.Trade ReviewExplaining Crime is essential reading for anyone seeking an in-depth, highly intelligible overview of major criminological theories. Hugh Barlow and David Kauzlarich have produced a text that will make students enjoy taking theory classes and help them fully engage with classical and contemporary perspectives on crime, law, and social control. -- Walter S. DeKeseredy, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; co-author of Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural AmericaTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Basics of Criminological Theory Chapter 2 Classical, Rational Choice, and Opportunity Theories Chapter 3 Biological, Psychological, and Evolutionary Theories Chapter 4 Social Structural Theories Chapter 5 Social Process Theories Chapter 6 Critical Theories Chapter 7 Integrated and General Theories Chapter 8 Epilogue: Tools for Using Criminological Theory

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Book SynopsisSmuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues as highwaymen of the coasts and Robin Hood figures. The reality could be very different. Cut-throat businessmen determined to make a profit, many smugglers were prepared to use excessive force as often as they used cunning, and the officers whose job it was to apprehend them were regularly brutally intimidated into inaction. Trevor May explains who the smugglers were, what motivated them, where they operated, and how items ranging from barrels of brandy to boxes of tea would surreptitiously be moved inland under the noses of, and sometimes even in collusion with, the authorities.Table of ContentsHeroes and Villains / The Nature of Smuggling / Enforcing the Law / A Practical Guide to Smuggling / The Smuggler at Sea / Smugglers of Note and Notoriety / From the Old Smuggler to the New / Further Reading / Places to Visit / Index

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Book SynopsisDo criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime, Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy thinking concerning the relationship between urban deprivation, crime and drug use. Chris Allen outlines an innovative constructionist phenomenological perspective to explore these relationships in a new light. He discusses how people living in deprived urban areas develop ânatural attitudesâ towards activities, such as crime and drug use, that are prevalent in the social worlds they inhabit, and shows that this produces forms of articulation such as âI donât know why I take drugsâ, âI just take themâ and âdrugs come naturally to meâ. He then draws on his constructionist phenomenology to help understand the ânatural attitudeâ towards crime and drugs that emerge from conditions of urban deprivation, as well as the non-reasoned forms of articulation that emerge from this attitude. The book argues that understanding the conditions in which drug users deviate from their ânatural attitudeâ can help effective intervention in the lives of drug users.Trade Review’This is a fine book, which demonstrably contests the main theses of the key players in the "drugs debate. The dominant policy and academic theses, whilst different, are both, according to the author, misplaced, as they fail to appreciate the habitus of the user themselves. In particular, the author’s critique of the academic community research into this area as being located within the discipline rather than the everyday lives of the users themselves is powerful.’ Dave Cowan, University of Bristol, UK ’This is a very important and extremely well constructed study. Chris Allen utilises a thorough investigation of the field and in-depth interviews with some of the UK’s most vulnerable citizens to identify the complex and nuanced factors influencing drug use and crime in the UK. In giving a voice to subjects often silenced or assumed in contemporary debates, this book presents a powerful indictment of both current policy and academic investigation, and provides an epistemology that offers a more constructive way forward in addressing the causal factors and manifestations of social exclusion.’ John Flint, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ’Crime, Drugs and Social Theory is a challenging and thought-provoking addition to the literature...[Allen’s] analysis of the different relationship that people have with recreational and problematic drug use is particularly interesting, as is his focus on the role that disturbing episodes and encounters play in the genesis of problematic drug and violent acquisitive crime.’ British Journal of Criminology ’This is a delightful attempt to dramatically extend the frame of reference of the drugs/crime debate by providing a holistic perspective to problematic drug use and recreational crime.’ Drugs and Alcohol Today 'I would see this text as a general and challenging starting point for understanding drug use. For those already working in the field, it would be a useful resource on the sociology behind druTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: on the question of being and crime; Crime, drugs and social research; Crime, drugs and social theory; Being and crime (and drugs); 'Natural attitudes' towards recreational crime and drugs; Becoming a problematic drug user; Criminological consequences of 'becoming' a problematic drug user; Confrontations with the 'soiled self'; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisOffering a fascinating account of the development of women police over the past twenty years, this book refers to the author''s extended research in India to examine how the Indian experience demonstrates a valuable alternative to the Anglo-American model; not only for traditional societies but for women police in the West as well. With reference to the establishment in 1992 of all-women units in Tamil Nadu, this unique experiment proved highly successful in enhancing the confidence and professionalism of women officers and ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of the police. At a time when policing is being rethought all over the world, not only in traditional societies, the Tamil Nadu practice illustrates important lessons for western countries that are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain women officers. Natarajan''s remarkable book is an important and original contribution to the literature on gendered policing, which to date has concentrated almost exclusiTrade Review'Guided by her deep respect for the daily challenges faced by women police in Tamil Nadu, Natarajan's brilliant, insightful research reaches far beyond India. This book is a must read for anyone interested in women in policing, no matter where they live or work.' Graeme R. Newman, University at Albany, New York, USA . 'Mangai Natarajan lays out a radical thesis in this important book. She argues that true gender equality in the police does not mean that men and women officers should do the same work. Instead it means that they should be assigned to duties best suited to their skills and interests, and to their lives outside the police force.' Ronald V Clarke, Rutgers University, USA 'Mangai Natarajan’s new book Women Police in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality is a very welcome and major contribution to the field, particularly in charting the complexities of gender equity policy in policing... Her research charted an evolution in the views of women police in traditional roles towards a preference for greater integration as their experience grew and they became more confident in their ability to carry out the full range of policing duties. She therefore makes a plausible argument for a more gradual approach to the ultimate goal of gender equity in policing depending on the specific circumstances in each policing jurisdiction.' Asian Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsPart 1 Women Police Worldwide; Chapter 1 Women Police and Societal Change; Chapter 2 Three Decades of Research on Women Police: What Has Been Learned?; Part II Women Police in a Traditional Society; Chapter 3 Women Police in India; Chapter 4 Women Police in Tamil Nadu; Part III Studies of Women Police in Tamil Nadu; Chapter 5 Tamil Nadu Women Police in the 1980s; Chapter 6 Tamil Nadu All Women Police Units'”An Assessment; Chapter 7 Women Police in the Battalions; Part IV Women Policing in a Changing Society; Chapter 8 Reconciling the Needs of the Police, Women Officers, and Tamil Nadu; Chapter 9 Prescriptions for Twenty-first Century Women Policing: Theory, Research, and Policy;

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Book SynopsisThe contributors consistently present complex material with a readable style relatively free of technical jargon. Accordingly, this outstanding reference work is highly recommended for school and public library collections, as well as academic libraries and criminal justice collections.--REFERENCE & USER SERVICES QUARTERLYThere is no comparable work. Useful for anyone doing research in the field of juvenile justice. Highly recommended.--CHOICEWhat makes this work truly usable is its wonderful indexing and exceptional bibliographies. . . . If juvenile interaction with the judicial system is a research topic at your school, this volume is one of the best sources.--LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTIONFrom boot camps to truancy, the Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice provides more than 200 up-to-date, concise, and readable entries in a single, authoritative volume. The editors, noted authors of several criminal justice books and editors of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Prisons, cover historical and contemporary theories, concepts, and real-world practices of juvenile justice in the United States. The entries address a broad range of issues and topics, such as alcohol and drug abuse, arson, the death penalty for juveniles, computer and Internet crime, gun violence, gangs, missing children, school violence, teen pregnancy, and delinquency theories. In addition, topics cover society's response to the problems of juvenile justice, punishments meted out to America's juvenile offenders, juvenile rehabilitation programs, and well-known researchers and professionals in the field. Key Features More than 200 articles, written by a stellar collection of academic theorists and real-world practitioners Complete review of the complicated juvenile legal and court system, juvenile punishment, rehabilitation efforts, and legislation Extensive entries on child and adolescent crimes, pathologies, and problems Coverage of psychological, biological, and sociological theories of delinquency, as well as historic body type theories Addresses such historical topics as the deinstitutionalization movement, the Chicago Area Project, and the Provo Experiment Profiles historic theorists and policymakers in juvenile justice Includes a special appendix on print and electronic resources on juvenile justice Comprehensive index, including a reader's guide that facilitates browsing and offers easy access to information Recommended Libraries Public, academic, school, law/legal, special, and private/corporateTrade Review“There is no comparable work. Useful for anyone doing research in the field of juvenile justice. Highly recommended.” -- CHOICE“What makes this work truly usable is its wonderful indexing and exceptional bibliographies. . . . If juvenile interaction with the judicial system is a research topic at your school, this volume is one of the best sources.” -- LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTION"The contributors consistently present complex material with a readable style relatively free of technical jargon. Accordingly, this outstanding reference work is highly recommended for school and public library collections, as well as academic libraries and criminal justice collections." -- REFERENCE & USER SERVICES QUARTERLY"This attractively produced Encyclopedia, with many well-written and informative articles, will surely be a useful resource for any party seeking basic information on a range of topics related to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice. It can be recommended for purchase by public libraries as well as college and university libraries and those serving a scholarly community with an interest in juvenile justice issues." -- David O. Friedrichs * American Reference Books Annual *"This new reference guide explores these historical trends and the nature of the juvenile justice process today. From Edwin Sutherland to Marvin Wolfgang, the research and writing of leading theorists in juvenile criminology is examined. . . . The entries emphasize the research foundations of juvenile justice theory and provide numerous suggestions for further research. Although aimed at an academic audience, this guide will also serve public libraries." -- John R.M. Lawrence, Reference Librarian * Lawrence Looks at Books *Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Appendix: Print and Electronic Resources on Juvenile Justice

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Book SynopsisAs an experienced teacher of criminological theory at graduate and undergraduate levels, Imogene Moyer grew increasingly dissatisfied with the somewhat narrow focus of the books available. In her new text, Moyer has succeeded in presenting instructors and students with a comprehensive and engaging alternative. Moyer takes a multidimensional approach to the subject by including new theorists such as W.E.B. DuBois, Pauline Tarnowsky, Frank Tannenbaum, Ruth Shonle Cavan, and Sally Simpson, often allowing the theorists' original source material to speak for them. Chapters are devoted to recently developed perspectives, particularly from women and people of color, which provide readers with a broader understanding of crime and criminal behavior. Criminological Theories is organized in a chronological order, beginning with the 18th century classical school focusing on Beccaria and Bentham and ending with the late 20th-century peacemaking perspective. In each chapter Moyer analyzes the assumptions the theorists have made about people and society and includes discussions of the cultural and historical settings in which the theories were developed, along with biographies of specific theorists and their lifetime contributions. The theme of the interrelationship theory, research, and policy runs throughout the book, with policy implications and applications frequently addressed. While it is not essential for all scholars to agree on a particular theory's value, Imogene Moyer has provided the background and insights necessary to understand and appreciate the diverse and valuable theoretical viewpoints that have contributed to criminology today.Table of Contents1. The Expansion of Criminological Theory 2. The Classical School 3. The Positivist School 4. The Functionalist Perspective 5. The Chicago School 6. The Control Theorists - Ayn Embar-Seddon 7. The Interactionist School - Cavit Cooley 8. Conflict/Radical Marxist Theories 9. Feminist Criminology 10. Peacemaking in Criminology

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Book SynopsisDetailed scholarly review of the Hillsville Massacre revealing new understanding of the event.Table of ContentsIntroduction 'The Many Untruths' Performing Hillsville Performing Hillsville 'Feelings Are Still Very Strong' 'I Wish You Had Not Thought to Come Here' Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a felony conviction living in the United States has grown significantly in the last decade, reaching into the millions. When men and women are released from prison, their journey encompasses a range of challenges that are unique to each individual, including physical and mental illnesses, substance abuse, gender identity, complicated family dynamics, the denial of rights, and the inability to voice their experiences about returning home. Although scholars focus on the obstacles former prisoners encounter and how to reduce recidivism rates, the main challenge of prisoner reentry is how multiple interdependent issues overlap in complex ways. By examining prisoner reentry from various critical perspectives, this volume depTable of ContentsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: Critical Reentry in the 21st CenturyKEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS AND CALVINJOHN SMILEYSECTION IInstitutions, Community, and Reentry1 Halfway Home: The Thin Line Between Abstinence and the Drug CrisisLIAM MARTIN2 Triaging Rehabilitation: The Retreat of State-Funded Prison ProgrammingALLISON GORGA3 The State’s Accomplices? Organizations and the Penal StateNICOLE KAUFMAN4 Idaho: A Case Study in Rural ReentryDEIRDRE CAPUTO-LEVINE5 Life Courses of Sex and Violent Offenders After Prison Release: The Interaction Between Individual- and Community-Related FactorsGUNDA WOESSNER, KIRA-SOPHIE GAUDER, AND DAVID CZUDNOCHOWSKISECTION IIHealth, Embodiment, and Reentry6 Mothers Returning Home: A Critical Intersectional Approach to ReentryREBECCA REVIERE, VERNETTA D. YOUNG, AND AKIV DAWSON7 Release From Long-Term Restrictive HousingLINDA CARSON8 Resilient Roads and the Non-Prison Model for WomenL. SUSAN WILLIAMS, EDWARD L. W. GREEN, AND KATRINA M. LEWIS9 Alcohol Use Disorder: Programs and Treatment for Offenders Reentering the CommunitySARA BUCK DOUDE AND JESSICA J. SPARKS10 Carceral Calisthenics: (Body) Building a Resilient Self and Transformative Reentry MovementALBERT DE LA TIERRASECTION IIIGender, Criminality, and Reentry11 Black Women Excluded From Protection and Criminalized for Their ExistenceKEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS12 The Gendered Challenges of Prisoner ReentryHALEY ZETTLER13 An Intersectional Criminology Analysis of Black Women’s Collective ResistanceNISHAUN T. BATTLE AND JASON M. WILLIAMS14 Gender Differences in Programmatic Needs for JuvenilesLAURIN PARKER AND KYLIE PARROTTA15 Prison Is a Place to Teach Us the Things We’ve Never Learned in LifeBREEA WILLINGHAMSECTION IVAccess, Rights, and Reentry16 “. . . Except Sex Offenders”: Registering Sexual Harm in the Age of #MeTooDAVID BOOTH17 Reentry in the Inland Empire: The Prison to College Pipeline With Project ReboundANNIKA YVETTE ANDERSON, PAUL ANDREW JONES, AND CAROLYN ANNE MCALLISTER18 The Politics of Restoring Voting Rights After IncarcerationTANEISHA N. MEANS AND ALEXANDRA HATCH19 Restoration of Voting Rights: Returning Citizensand the Florida ElectorateKENESHIA GRANT20 Perpetual Punishment: One Man’s Journey Post-IncarcerationTOMAS R. MONTALVO AND JENNIFER MARIE ORTIZSECTION VVoices, Agency, and Reentry21 Thoughts, Concerns, and the Reality of Incarcerated WomenCALVINJOHN SMILEY AND KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS22 Reflections on Reentry: Voices From the ID13 Prison Literacy ProjectHALLE M. NEIDERMAN, CHRISTOPHER P. DUM, AND THE ID13 PRISON LITERACY PROJECT23 Being Held at Rikers, Waiting to Go UpstateMARQUES M.24 Reentry, From My PerspectiveABDUL-HALIM N. SHAHID25 The Journey of a Black Man Enveloped in PovertySTEVEN PACHECO26 My First 24 Hours After Being ReleasedJOSE LUMBRERASSECTION VIActivism, Liberation, and Reentry27 Money for Freedom: Cash Bail, Incarceration, and ReentryCALVINJOHN SMILEY28 Agents of Change in Healing Our CommunitiesLIZA CHOWDHURY, JASON DAVIS, AND DEDRIC “BELOVED” HAMMOND29 Rehabilitation Is Reentry: Breathing Space, a Product of Inmate DreamsROBERT GAROT30 Making Good One Semester at a Time: Formerly Incarcerated Students (and Their Professor) Consider the Redemptive Power of Inclusive EducationJAMES M. BINNALL, IRENE SOTELO, ADRIAN VASQUEZ, AND JOE LOUIS HERNANDEZ31 “I Can’t Depend on No Reentry Program!”: Street-Identified Black Men’s Critical Reflections on Prison ReentryYASSER ARAFAT PAYNE, TARA MARIE BROWN, AND CORRY WRIGHTConclusion: What’s Next for Critical ReentryCALVINJOHN SMILEY AND KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASSIndex

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Book SynopsisThe American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we explain such high levels of lethal violence in the world''s leading democracy? Echoing Durkheim''s Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America''s murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets, greater racial discrimination, more exposure to violence, and sharper economic inequalities. He deftly blends the evidence related to each of these factors into a well-reasoned sociological analysis of the nature of American society. Features Highlights how sociology can be used to explain problems and seek solutions Distinguishes between structural and social psychological levels of analysis Provides a constrasting perspective to Messner & Rosenfeld''s widely assigned Crime and the American Dream Uses metaphors and analogies in order to make sociological ideas meaningful to students Employs an engaging writing style to place the analysis in the scholarly literature Offers clear explanations of Durkheim, Weber, Merton, and others, that show their usefulness for understanding modern lifeTrade ReviewThe book is well written, well referenced, and adequately indexed. Recommended. * CHOICE *Beeghley's book provides an impressive sociological understanding of murder. * Okeechobee News *Homocide: A Sociological Explanation is an ideal text for sociology and criminology graduate students because it offers a comprehensive review of U.S. homicide through a critical lens. The material is challenging, and Beeghley's research is thorough. -- Laurie J. Samuel, Metropolitan Police Department * Criminal Justice Review *With skillful use of analogies and an engaging writing style, Leonard Beeghley has written a book on the sociology of homicide that is highly accessible to the general public. The arguments are well reasoned and located skillfully in the scholarly literature. A first rate book. -- Steven Messner, The University at AlbanyTable of ContentsChapter 1 I. Homicide as a Routine Event Chapter 2 II. How to Understand Homicide Chapter 3 III. Homicide in Cross-National and Historical Perspective Chapter 4 IV. The American Dream and Homicide: A Critique Chapter 5 V. Social Structure and Homicide Chapter 6 VI. Is Change Possible?

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Book SynopsisBy bringing together relevant findings on the relationship between exclusion and extremism, this book is valuable for students and researchers interested in both social psychology and political sciences. Moreover, it has value for practitioners who deal with radicalization and deradicalization to apply effective measures.

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states. Moving past a binary concept of diversity that involves only race and gender, this book elaborates upon a wide variety of other forms of diversity, including sexuality, disability, mental health, gendered identity, refugees, the young and the ageing, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) peoples, with an awareness of how intersecting identities make some people more vulnerable than others. With reported statistics providing only a snapshot of the incongruent experiences of diverse minorities in contact with criminal justice systems, there is a clear need for nuanced training and accessible information regarding diversity in criminal justice. The book examines diversity in terms of both criminal justice agents and justice-involved individuals such as people in prison, those convicted of crimesTrade Review"This book is a powerfully written, engaging exploration of intersectionality and culturally safe practices. My first response, on reading was, to say, "Wow, this book has so many potential applications and I'll be recommending it to the many organisations I work with!". It is likely to be if value to new scholars, seasoned academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. In many settings, we grapple with how to ensure that our approaches are inclusive and non-discriminatory. This book provides a framework likely to enhance critical thinking that will cause reflection and meaningful change across multiple sectors, including criminal justice. Highly recommend."Dr. Tracey Price-Allan, Director of MyCorZ Consultancy Ltd, Board Member of the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA)"While it is questionable whether the criminal system can ever be culturally safe, this book makes an important contribution to critical understandings of cultural threats to marginalised people who are criminalised. It brings together a diverse field of scholars who interrogate the nature of criminalisation for oppressed peoples and make recommendations for systemic change. People in the criminalising system are often typecast as 'suspects', 'offenders' or 'inmates'. This book shines a light on their intersectional humanity and how the system intrudes on their, and our, basic human rights. Finally, this book addresses the toxic cultures within criminalising agencies that contribute to structural oppression within and outside of the agencies. This is a valuable resource for academics and students who want to learn about systemic bias and the harms it wreaks on individuals and society."Professor Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney "Understanding the underlying and implicit role diversity plays across criminal justice systems is vital in creating fair and just societies. This book provides a nuanced and in-depth analysis on working towards this shared goal and aspiration, whilst holding existing structures and systems accountable to being much better in its approach and application. Such diverse contexts and lived experiences can create cultural safe perspectives and practices as privileged across the various narratives within this edited collection." Professor Jioji Ravulo, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsPrefaceSection 1 – Understanding Culture, Diversity, ad Criminal JusticeChapter 1: Introduction to Culture, Diversity, and Criminal JusticeAlex Workman, Ranya Kaddour, and Patricia M. GriffinChapter 2: Trauma-Informed Practices: The Need for Cultural Safety in Criminal JusticeTinashe Dune, Alex Workman, Patricia M. Griffin, and Ranya KaddourSection 2 – Culturally Diverse PeopleChapter 3: Indigenous peopleKrystal Lockwood, Rachel Stringfellow, Stephen Corporal, and Sally WeidleChapter 4: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)Rashmi Pithavadian and Meghna BhatChapter 5: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Mary Hilmi, Katarzyna Olcoń, and Melissa PhillipsChapter 6: People with Disabilities, Chronic Disease, and Illness Anita Eseosa Ogbeide, Ranya Kaddour, and Lydia Kaki OcanseyChapter 7: Mental HealthBill Walsh, Jeffrey Czarnec, and Charles Tucker Jr.Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality Diverse PeopleAlex Workman, Matthew Ball, and Tinashe DuneChapter 9: WomenJane Townsley, Ellie Lenawarungu, and Samantha BurtonChapter 10: MenDarren Stocker, Charles James Kocher, Robert Lindblom, and John McGuireChapter 11: The ElderlyLacey Schaefer and Emily MoirChapter 12: The YoungAngelica Ojinnaka, Leah Maree, Annalise Zareba, and Asheka JacksonSection 3 – Toward a Culturally Safe Justice SystemChapter 13: Intersectionality: The Way Forward for Culture, Diversity, and Criminology within Criminal Justice SystemsRanya Kaddour, Alex Workman, and Patricia. M GriffinGlossary

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Book SynopsisThis book asks why crime and violence persist in Latin America at extreme levels and why the states have not been able to more effectively solve this problem that dominates the lives of many millions of Latin Americans.Informed by diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the book brings together a team of regional experts to discuss research-based explanations on some of Latin America's most pressing criminal and violent issues distressing the rule of law. First, it examines old and new forms of observing crime upon perpetrators and victimized communities. Second, it explores the geographies of urban and rural violence and the entangled politics following organized criminality. Third, it questions how the transfer of policy knowledge and expertise reshapes local security governance, and, more importantly, critically examines the problems in implementing foreign models and paradigms in the Latin American context. Finally, it exposes the everchanging scenario of policy-making and pros

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Book SynopsisTerrorism Awareness: Understanding the Threat and How You Can Protect Yourself provides readers a foundational understanding of the threats that face us every day.The goal is to introduce readers to different tactics and techniques used by terroristsâboth international and domesticâto better understand personal protection concepts and, if necessary, take actions to make themselves hard targets that terrorist organizations will want to avoid. This includes providing a background on understanding how terrorists operate, and, more specifically, how to recognize the pre-incident indicators associated with terrorist operations.Coverage includes situation awareness of the phases of terrorist operations, common attacks, surveillance and targeting tactics, kidnapping and hostage situations, bombings and blast effects, hijacking, armed assaults, and more. With such awareness, readers can be alert to common cues to avoid dangerous situations, as well as fTable of Contents1. Introduction to Terrorism 2. Terrorist Operations 3. Improvised Explosive Devices 4. Hostage Survival 5. Rapport Building Techniques 6. Detecting Terrorist Surveillance 7. Individual Protective Measures 8. Riots and Protests 9. Active Incident 10. Domestic Terrorism 11. Fire Uses as a Weapon 12. Cyber Awareness Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWriting well is an essential skill for sociologists, but few books help students learn to write well. Designed to help students produce a manuscript that is clear, concise, and compelling, Effective Writing for Sociology demonstrates and deconstructs what makes effective writing and how best to communicate scholarly ideas. The first half of the book addresses the fundamentals of good writing: writing clearly, conveying emphasis, writing concisely, and crafting effective paragraphs. The second half then looks to the three most important sections of a research report: framing an introduction, reporting results, and discussing findings. Each chapter of the book describes strategies for effective writing, illustrated with multiple examples and providing exercises where students can try their hand at implementing these strategies. The Epilogue provides tips on choosing a title as well as writing an abstract and method section; it also includes suggestions on how to master tTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue 1 Writing Clearly 2 Writing with Emphasis 3 Writing Concisely, with Some Spice 4 The Art of Fine Paragraphs 5 Framing the Introduction 6 Reporting Results 7 Discussing Your Findings Epilogue: The end of the book, but the beginning of your writing journey Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCybercrime continues to skyrocket but we are not combatting it effectively yet. We need more cybercrime investigators from all backgrounds and working in every sector to conduct effective investigations. This book is a comprehensive resource for everyone who encounters and investigates cybercrime, no matter their title, including those working on behalf of law enforcement, private organizations, regulatory agencies, or individual victims. It provides helpful background material about cybercrime''s technological and legal underpinnings, plus in-depth detail about the legal and practical aspects of conducting cybercrime investigations. Key features of this book include: Understanding cybercrime, computers, forensics, and cybersecurity Law for the cybercrime investigator, including cybercrime offenses; cyber evidence-gathering; criminal, private and regulatory law, and nation-state implications Cybercrime investigation from three key perspeTable of ContentsPart 1: Cyber Law. 1. Introduction. 2. Cybercrimes and Criminal Statutes. 3. Laws Pertaining to the Criminal Investigative Process. 4. Nation State and Terrorist Nexus. 5. Civil and Regulatory Issues Relating to Cybercrime. Part 2: The Criminal Investigation. 6. The Crime (Act). 7. Gathering Leads and Potential Evidence. 8. Following the Money. 9. Gathering Records and Evidence with an Eye towards Potential Trial. 10. Identification and Attribution of the Suspect. 11. Getting Technical. 12. Apprehending the Suspect and Follow on Actions. 13. The Criminal Investigation and Case Continues after Arrest. Part 3: The Civil Investigation. 14. Comparing the Civil Investigation to the Criminal Investigation. 15. Civil Legal Process Available. 16. E-Discovery. 17. Sharing with Law Enforcement. Part 4: Appendix. 18. Statutes. 19. Criminal Cases. 20. Civil Cases. 21. Cybercrime Investigation Organizations. 22. Cybersecurity Organizations.

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Book SynopsisThis landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.Graffiti, pristine walls, advertising posters, and municipal signage all compete on city surfaces to establish and imprint their values on our environments. It is the first time that the surfacescapes of our cities are granted the entire attention of a book as material, visual, and legal territories. The book includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses and argues for surfaces as sites of resistance against private property, neoliberal creativity, and the imposition of urban order. It also proposes a seven-point manual for a semiotics of urban surfaces, laying the ground for a new discipline: surface studies.Page after page and layer after layer, surfaces become porous and political and emerge as key spatial conditions for rethinking and re-practicing urban dwelling and spatial jusTrade Review“Sabina Andron invites us to surface – to come up for air or for light – in the ways that we think about cities. Andron’s beautifully nuanced account shows us that every surface is an archive bearing the history of its making, use, re-use, subversion or adaptation. In flipping our attention away from isolated signs, texts and images, Andron shows how spatial justice in the public city is a matter of surfaces.”Alison Young, The University of Melbourne, Australia“Andron not only provides a unique and revealing account of graffiti and street art, but instigates a whole new way of thinking about architecture and cities. By ‘interviewing’ walls as paint, signs and scripts, she reveals hidden depths of politics, justice, legislation, contestation and transgression. Anyone interested in the experience of the contemporary city should read this provocative and original book.”Iain Borden, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK“In this innovative study, Sabina Andron makes a persuasive case for the fundamental importance of what walls display to senses of publicness in cities. She beautifully evokes the visual richness and diversity of what vertical surfaces carry, as well as offering a distinctive semiotic methodology for interpreting the entangled images and texts visible on urban walls.”Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, UK“This is the book that most comprehensively engages our urban surfaces, their materials and inscriptions, drawing us as a public in motion nearer to a pluriversal we cannot do without, enabling us to experience cities in entirely new ways, beyond property and category. Surfacing a vital way for urban scholars from all disciplines to think together.”AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: the city of surfaces 11 Surface semiotics: a manual for knowing surfaces 91. The places of discourse are fundamental to the production of meaning 102. Signification takes place in localised aggregates 143. Surfaces are thick and alive 204. Dirt is a crime 245. Order is white 296. Visibility generates value 337. Text makes space, and the city makes us literate 388. Surface betrayals and restitutions 429. Conclusion, or six proposals for the significance of signs and surfaces 4510. Wall interview 482 Beyond art and crime: a critical history of graffiti and street art 581. Wall writing is a time portal 592. Graffiti is only a name 633. Every tag is collectively authored 654. The writing is not on the wall 695. Fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy 726. Gallery walls redeem urban walls 787. Street art is a different name 828. The image is not on the wall 859. Authoritarianism comes in beautiful colours 9010. Urban creativity is a well-oiled machine 9611. Street art sold my city 101Conclusion, or six proposals against institutional appropriations 1053 Law and graffiti: property, crime, and the surface commons 1161. Law is everywhere; everywhere is law 1172. Surfaces complicate property regimes 1223. The right to the city is the right to the surface 1264. Writing on walls has a long history of regulation 1305. Graffiti offends against property and order 1336. Offence is an ambiguous affair 1387. The majority decides what is proper 1418. The argument against art 147Conclusion, or five proposals for a surface commons 1494 Leake Street London: legal walls and deep surfaces 1591. Ownership is tedious 1612. Street art is just the beginning 1633. Not all legal walls are created equal 1664. Graffiti knows no boundaries 1685. 100 Days of Leake Street is not enough 1726. Tagging is pro-social 1747. Eat drink shop graffiti 180Conclusion, or five proposals for learning from Leake Street 186Conclusion: cultural heritage and the right to the surface city 190The right to the city is the right to the surface: a manifesto 197Acknowledgements 199Index 201

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Book SynopsisHandbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terrorist and insurgent groups around the world. The purpose is to create a descriptive mosaic of what is a pointedly global security challenge.The volume brings together conceptual approaches to terrorism, insurgency, and cyberterrorism with substantive and empirical analyses of individual groups, organisations, and networks. By doing so, not only does the coverage highlight the past, present, and future orientations of the most prominent groups, but it also examines and illustrates their key characteristics and how they operate, including key leaders and ideologues. Highlighting specific, individual groups, the chapters collectively present a robust and comprehensive outlook on the current geography of terrorism and insurgency groups operating in the world today.This comprehensive volume brings the collective expertise and knowledge of more than 50 academics, intelligence and security officials, and professionals together, all of whom are considered subject experts in their respective areas of research and practice. The volume is based on both desk-based and fieldwork conducted by experts in these areas, incorporating analyses of secondary literature but also the use of primary data including first-hand interviews on the various groupsâ regions of operation, their tactics, and how their ideologies motivate their actions.

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Book SynopsisClaims about a pursuit of justice weave through all periods of China''s modern history. But what do authorities mean when they refer to ''justice'' and do Chinese citizens interpret justice in the same way as their leaders? This book explores how certain ideas about justice have come to be dominant in Chinese polity and society, and how some conceptions of justice have been rendered more powerful and legitimate than others. This book''s focus on ''how'' justice works incorporates a concern about the processes that lead to the making, un-making and re-making of distinct conceptions of justice. Investigating the processes and frameworks through which certain ideas about justice have come to the political and social forefront in China today, this innovative work explains how these ideas are articulated through spoken performances and written expression by both the party-state and its citizenry.Table of ContentsPart I. Constructing the Idea of Justice: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives: 1. The expression of justice in China Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph and Elisa Nesossi; 2. State, society and the justice debate in contemporary China Joshua Rosenzweig; 3. High justice vs low justice: the legacy of confucian and legalist notions of justice Delia Lin; 4. Rawls rejected, ignored, and radicalized: debating procedural justice in China Samuli Seppänen; Part II. The Performance of State Justice: 5. Weaponising the rule of law in China Susan Trevaskes; 6. Wrongful conviction: the useful injustice? Elisa Nesossi; 7. 'Rich Sister' Wu Ying, judicial drama and justice Flora Sapio; Part III. Expressing Justice in the Public Arena: 8. Justice in the PRC: how the Chinese Communist Party has struggled with managing public opinion and the administration of criminal justice in the internet age Ira Belkin; 9. Doing justice: traditional and liberal conceptions of political morality in contemporary Chinese advocacy initiatives Eva Pils; 10. Perceived justice of migrant workers in China Xin He, Lungang Wang and Yang Su; Part IV. Justice in Action and Law: 11. In search of justice: China's elusive civil litigation reforms Margaret Woo; 12. Justice at the margins: notions of justice in the punishment of prostitution Sarah Biddulph; 13. Bringing politics back in: access to justice and labor dispute resolution in China Hualing Fu; 14. Of ceremonial columns Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph and Elisa Nesossi.

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Book SynopsisA shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling ''rock'' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the ''Horatio Alger boys'' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines -did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark sidTrade Review'In 1980s mainstream culture, Ronald Reagan celebrated unfettered capitalist enterprise as the font of national virtue, global supply chains revolutionized the production and distribution of consumer goods, 'greed was good', the tabloids celebrated the flashy self-display of Donald Trump - and the rise of crack cocaine darkly mirrored it all. With great moral passion and flashes of wit, David Farber provocatively demonstrates in this riveting chronicle that while crack, in the awful devastation it wreaked, was a business like no other, it also was a business, like any other. A must-read contribution to the history of our time.' Rick Perlstein, author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America'David Farber pulls off the historical equivalent of The Wire, but for crack instead of heroin. A master of political and social history, Farber puts the story of violent urban drug markets right where they belong: at the intersection of buccaneering capitalism, dark-slide globalization, and America's enduring divides of race and class.' David Courtwright, author of Dark Paradise and The Age of Addiction'In the late 1980s, Americans came to believe that illegal drugs were the nation's biggest problem. Crack is an essential read for anyone hoping to understand why. This lively, well-researched history of America's crack cocaine years introduces readers to entrepreneurial dealers, desperate users, and draconian drug policies. Along the way, it illuminates the era's racism, political excesses and media exaggerations, as well as the lasting damage crack and crack dealers wrought in countless neighborhoods of color.' Pam Kelley, author of Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South'A great primer for anyone who wants to know more about how crack cocaine got so big in the United States … [A]ccessible, dramatic, and with a clear sense of how the drug blew up and fizzled out. The divide between those most affected by crack, and those who crafted the official response to it is the key factor in explaining why America's war on drugs hasn't worked, and Farber does a good job of bridging the divide.' Tom Feiling, author of Cocaine Nation: How the White Trade Took Over the World and Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia 'This thoughtful, well-researched history highlights the futility of viewing drugs as strictly a matter for law enforcement while ignoring their socioeconomic context.' Publishers Weekly'[A] riveting account of the crack years in America …' Sean O'Hagan, Observer'And you put down Crack with a feeling that this exploration of a dark part of our history has given you an improved understanding of today, and maybe tomorrow … There are no heroes in David Farber's Crack. There are lasting lessons on how not to handle the next drug epidemic.' Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'… a scholarly, yet highly entertaining codex showing the solid economic stability reaped by crack dealers.' Darryl Robertson, Vibe'Crack will give readers, especially white readers, a new perspective on what went on during the crack years and how it was handled. For younger readers who didn't experience the time period firsthand, it piques interest in something that their parents lived through and have opinions on.' Amanda Salazar, Kings County Politics'In succinctly presenting a thorough look at the political, economic, and cultural contexts for the crack enterprise, Farber concludes that the players who decided to sell crack were rational actors in a culture of 'entrepreneurial greed.' In the end, we may begin to wonder how the dealer in the hood might be distinguished from the dealer in Big Pharma's executive suite.' Kim Hewitt, The Metropole'The social history of illicit drugs was lacking a thoroughly researched account on crack use in the 1980s and US historian David Farber has filled the gap with a concise, well-written and informative book that sheds light on a dark episode of contemporary American history, and further illustrates the link between racial and economic inequality and psychoactive substance abuse. The reading is at times absorbing, with some short biographies of crack dealers and users, which provide a fascinating glimpse into the underworld; ... In sum, this excellent tome will likely become the essential text for a contemporary social history of crack cocaine in the United States, and one that will hopefully spur more contributions, focusing on specific places in the country.' Chris Elcock, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsChoosing crack: an introduction; 1. First comes cocaine, then comes crack: origin stories; 2. Crack the market: commodification and commercialization; 3. Crack up: the cost of hard-core consumption; 4. Crack money: manhood in the age of greed; 5. Crackdown: the politics and laws of drug enforcement; 6. Crack's retreat: a nation's slow, painful, and partial recovery.

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