Kriminologi: juridiska aspekter

I Kriminalpolitik. Brott och straff i Sverige sedan 1965 presenteras kriminalpolitikens förändring i förhållande till brottslighetens utveckling. Även om gängrelaterade skjutningar dominerar debatten sedan mitten av ...

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Denna grundbok presenterar olika teorier inom området kriminologi, både innehållsmässigt och i tillämpad form, där vi får möta olika per¿¿s¿pektiv och tankesätt. Boken behandlar först vad en teori egentligen är, därefter presenteras några av dem: ...

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This edited collection captures the expertise of scholars from the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada to catalog the rise in visual approaches in criminology. It presents examples of visual methods, uses, and approaches in criminology; assesses the...

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A MURDER HE CAN'T FORGET. A CASE ONLY SHE CAN SOLVE. 'OUTSTANDING' IAN RANKIN Amazon Best 100 Books of The Year Barnes & Noble Best Books of The Year Top Ten Best Thrillers of the Year - Washington Post * * * * * Daisy Clayton&a...

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John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling Patricia Cornwell GET INSIDE THE MINDS OF PSYCHOPATHS WITH THE GODFATHER OF CRIMINAL PROFILING In The Killer Across the Table, legendary FBI criminal profiler and number ...

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This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines historical criminology, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its potential to enhance, revise and fundamentally challe...

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Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This updated and revised edition is designe...

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Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing. They have sparked important conversations about the proper role and extent of police in society and about balancing security, oversight, accountability, privacy, and surveillance...

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In this book is a groundbreaking analysis of root of the conflicts that lie at the intersection of race and the legal system in America. Naomi Murakawa inverts the conventional wisdom by arguing that the expansion of the federal carceral state-a s...

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Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing contemporary issues such as the globalisation of crime, ...

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This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. The book reexamines mainstream definitions of gangs, identifies myths and misconcepti...

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Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, Third Edition, is an accessible and engaging text that offers balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research methods. Filled with gritty criminal justice and criminology examples inclu...

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This book offers an applied approach to criminology suitable for prospective police officers. It covers the fundamentals of criminological knowledge, theory and research, and their relevance to policing. The book is split into two parts, the first...

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The use of biometric identification systems is rapidly increasing across the world, owing to their potential to combat terrorism, fraud, corruption and other illegal activities. However, critics of the technology complain that the creation of an e...

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The 9/11 attacks, as well as the ones in Madrid, London, Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictatorial regimes; the wars in former Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq and currently in Ukraine; the sexual...

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From John Douglasthe legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhuntercomes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial kil...

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Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for...

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This book explores the subjects of child sex abuse, flaws in the justice system, cultural support for vigilantism, prison violence, and the socio-legal philosophy of punishment. Child sex abuse leaves a scar that lasts a lifetime. Can any legal pu...

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This book explains how improvements in intelligence analysis can bene!t policing. Written by experts with experience in police higher education and professional practice, this accessible text provides students with both practical knowledge and a c...

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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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The FBI's chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that serves as a basis for the upcoming series Waco. In Stalling for Time, the FBI's chief hostage ne...

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This book places youth violence within a Routine Activity Ecological Framework. Youth violence, specifically youth exposure to community violence and youth perpetration of violent behaviors, occur within various contexts. Ahlin and Antunes situate...

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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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Specially-commissioned essays by leading international criminologists critically examine criminology's conceptual foundations, aims, methods, boundaries, and impact. Describing the current state of the discipline, this collection is essential read...

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A remarkable book.Malcolm Gladwell, San Francisco Chronicle Deaths of civilians at the hands of on-duty police are in the national spotlight as never before. How many killings by police occur annually? What circumstances provoke police to shoot to...

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This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Swedena mosque fire, hate speech and of a series ...

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The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st-century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for...

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The value of the canine nose is well-documented, and working dogs are being utilized for their olfactory skills in an increasing number of fields. Not only are dogs used by police, security, and the military, but they are also now used in forensic...

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The notion of human dignity is frequently, yet enigmatically, invoked in legal and political debates on sex work, where many people use it without much elaboration on exactly what they mean by it. Sex Work and Human Dignity: Law, Politics and Disc...

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Drawing on empirical data from women who pay for sexual services and those who provide services to women, this ground-breaking study is the first of its kind in the UK, detailing the experiences of women who pay for sex in an explicit, direct, pre...

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