Kriminologi: juridiska aspekter

Varför straffar vi narkotika- men inte alkoholbruk? Begås det fler mord i Sverige i dag än på 1500-talet? Hur ser sambandet mellan fattigdom och brottslighet ut? Kan man bli kriminell på grund av skador på vissa delar av hjärnan? Varför har brotts...

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I Kriminalpolitik. Brott och straff i Sverige sedan 1965 presenteras kriminalpolitikens förändring i förhållande till brottslighetens utveckling. I ett lite längre perspektiv har brottsökningen planat ut, våldsbrotten inte ökat och ungas brottslig...

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Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from among the thousands of projects submitted for the He...

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Introduktion till kriminologi är en uppskattad lärobok som i sin tredje upplaga har delats upp i två volymer. I volym I ligger fokus på kriminologins kunskaper om brottslighetens omfattning, karaktär och orsaker. I föreliggande volym II riktas i s...

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime offers an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among gender, sex, and crime in the United States and in many other countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study i...

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Following a devastating genocide in 1994, the Rwandan government elected to hold all perpetrators accountable - including children. Thousands of children were held in prisons while awaiting charges; some were later convicted. This book is about th...

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A topical and lively discussion of how the criminal justice system attempts to ensure compliance with tax responsibility, discussing the development of tax evasion offences and the relationship between evasion and evidential rules, prosecution str...

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Doping - the use of performance-enhancing substances and methods - has long been a high-profile issue in sport but in recent years it has also become an issue in wider society. This important new book examines doping as a public health issue, draw...

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Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk. It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges ...

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Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk. It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges ...

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Criminal Litigation offers a comprehensive and practical guide to the areas of criminal litigation covered on the Legal Practice Course. Making effective use of realistic case studies backed up by online documentation, the text combines theory wit...

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The Oxford Handbook of Criminology provides an authoritative collection of chapters covering the core and emerging topics studied on criminology courses. With contributions from leading academics, the Handbook is the definitive guide to the discip...

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Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk. It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges ...

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In an era of mass mobility, those who are permitted to migrate and those criminalized, controlled, and prohibited from migrating are heavily patterned by race. This volume places race at the centre of its analysis; fourteen chapters examine, quest...

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Vi känner den som ÅRHUNDRADETS RÄTTSSKANDAL, historien om Sture Bergwall (alias Thomas Quick) som åren 1994-2001 dömdes skyldig till åtta mord han inte skulle ha begått men däremot erkänt i bekännelser som var så falska att ett barn borde ha genom...

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Modern Control Theory and the Limits of the Criminal Justice develops and extends the theory of self control advanced in Gottfredson and Hirschi's classic work A General Theory of Crime. Since it was first published, their general theory has been ...

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Modern Control Theory and the Limits of the Criminal Justice develops and extends the theory of self control advanced in Gottfredson and Hirschi's classic work A General Theory of Crime. Since it was first published, their general theory has been ...

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Per Lindebergs första bok om da Costafallet - ett av den svenska kriminalhistoriens mest omdiskuterade rättsfall - utkom första gången 1999. Boken väckte en våldsam debatt - den blev hyllad, kritiserad och ifrågasatt. Den utlöste nya polisutrednin...

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Per Lindebergs första bok om da Costafallet - ett av den svenska kriminalhistoriens mest omdiskuterade rättsfall - utkom första gången 1999. Boken väckte en våldsam debatt - den blev hyllad, kritiserad och ifrågasatt. Den utlöste nya polisutrednin...

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First published in 1999, this volume brings together a unique range of previously unpublished studies that explore the psychological processes involved in interviewing, statement validation, detecting deception and the use of expert witnesses for ...

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'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah 'One of the best legal thrillers ... as elegant and gripping as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent' Daily Mail 'Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets ...

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Martha Albertson Fineman's earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the 'autonomous' subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality disc...

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The Politics of the Police offers a geographical and historical overview of the law and politics of the police. This fifth edition covers a wider range of empirical and theoretical issues, encompassing a transnational scope and reflecting the grow...

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Drawing on a comparative case study of three countriesthe U.S., the U.K. and the NetherlandsThe Myth of Mob Rule explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue.

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Rapporten följer upp de nya straffbestämmelse om olaga förföljelse i brottsbalken, som infördes den 1 oktober 2011. Bestämmelsen ska fånga upp de fall som inte uppfyller kriterierna för grov frids- respektive kvinnofridskränkning, och samtidigt ge...

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Traditional techniques for detecting deception, such as the 'lie-detector test' (or polygraph), are based upon the idea that lying is associated with stress. However, it is possible that people telling the truth will experience stress, whereas not...

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From ancient to modern times, sexualised war violence against women was tolerated if not encouraged as a means of reward, propaganda, humiliation, and terror. This was and is in defiance of international laws that have criminalised acts of sexuali...

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We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but ...

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Vold's Theoretical Criminology, first published in 1958, was the first book of its kind and is considered "the" standard text in criminological theory by just about every measure. Because of this book, "Vold" is a household name amongst criminolog...

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Alla klagar på polisen. Justitieministern har uttryckt sin besvikelse. Rikspolischefen har ägnat sig åt självspäkning. Politikerna talar i katastroftermer: Polisen presterar för dåligt! En fråga ställs gång på gång, varför går det inte att styra p...

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