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Recriminalizing Delinquency
Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform
Av Simon I. Singer, Alfred Blumstein m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
781 kr
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Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles from …
Delinquent Networks
Youth Co-Offending in Stockholm
Av Jerzy Sarnecki, Alfred Blumstein
Häftad, 2005
796 kr
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This book presents a study of co-offering relations among youths under twenty-one suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991-5. In total, the study includes just over 22,000 individuals suspected of around 29,000 offences. Jerzy Sarnecki employs the methods of network analysis which …
What Works in Corrections
Reducing the Criminal Activities of Offenders and Deliquents
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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What Works in Corrections, first published in 2006, examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies, treatment and rehabilitation programs on the recidivism of offenders and delinquents. The book reviews different strategies for reducing recidivism and describes how the …
Companions in Crime
The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct
Av Mark Warr, Alfred Blumstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
458 kr
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Criminologists often allude to 'peer influence' in explanations of crime and delinquency, but the meaning of that concept rarely receives careful attention. Companions in Crime organizes the extensive literature on peer influence and group delinquency into a coherent form for the first time. …
Situational Prison Control
Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions
Häftad, 2002
667 kr
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This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime prevention in community settings, Richard Wortley argues that the same principles can be used to help reduce the levels of assault, rape, …
Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour
Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study
Av Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
618 kr
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Why are females rarely antisocial and males antisocial so often? This key question is addressed in a fresh approach to sex differences in the causes, course and consequences of antisocial behaviour. The book presents findings from a landmark investigation of 1,000 males and females studied from …
Delinquent-Prone Communities
Av Don Weatherburn, Bronwyn Lind
Häftad, 2006
553 kr
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Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the motivation to offend. But there are a number of …
Early Prevention of Adult Antisocial Behaviour
Av David P. Farrington, Jeremy W. Coid
Häftad, 2007
911 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive summary of how well adult crime, antisocial behaviour and antisocial personality disorder can be prevented by interventions applied early in life. It reviews important childhood risk and protective factors for these adult outcomes and the alternative strategies of …
The Framework of Judicial Sentencing
A Study in Legal Decision Making
Häftad, 2006
748 kr
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Austin Lovegrove examines the sentencing of offenders appearing on multiple offences and how judges, having fixed a prison sentence for each offence, determine an overall sentence for each offender. Analysing judges' verbal protocols for sentencing problems and sentences for fictitious cases, he is …
Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered
The Stockholm Metropolitan Project
Av Sheilagh Hodgins, Carl-Gunnar Janson
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians and law makers - assessing and managing the …
Delinquency and Crime
Current Theories
Inbunden, 1996
1430 kr
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Why is crime persistent over generations, within families and within certain individuals? Is crime the manifestation of an inherited latent trait or the result of a failure of socialization and norm-setting processes? Why do youths commit crimes? Delinquency and Crime contains essays by nine …
Delinquency and Crime
Current Theories
Häftad, 1996
699 kr
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Why is crime persistent over generations, within families and within certain individuals? Is crime the manifestation of an inherited latent trait or the result of a failure of socialization and norm-setting processes? Why do youths commit crimes? Delinquency and Crime contains essays by nine …
Lengthening the Arm of the Law
Enhancing Police Resources in the Twenty-First Century
Av Julie Ayling, Peter Grabosky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
732 kr
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Relentless fiscal pressures faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift with a …
Mean Streets
Youth Crime and Homelessness
Av John Hagan, Bill McCarthy m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1563 kr
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Mean Streets is a field study of young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. This book includes the personal narratives and explanatory accounts, in their own words, of some of the more than four hundred young people who participated in the …
Errors of Justice
Nature, Sources and Remedies
Av Brian Forst, Alfred Blumstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
699 kr
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In this book, Brian Forst takes a fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy, examining the prospect of assessing policies based on their impact on errors of justice: the error of failing to bring offenders to justice, on the one hand, and the error of imposing costs on innocent …
Marking Time in the Golden State
Women's Imprisonment in California
Av Candace Kruttschnitt, Rosemary Gartner m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
487 kr
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In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history. In this 2005 book, the authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California …
Third Party Policing
Av Lorraine Mazerolle, Janet Ransley
Häftad, 2006
781 kr
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Third party policing represents a major shift in contemporary crime control practices. As the lines blur between criminal and civil law, responsibility for crime control no longer rests with state agencies but is shared between a wide range of organisations, institutions or individuals. The first …
The Virtual Prison
Community Custody and the Evolution of Imprisonment
Häftad, 2004
569 kr
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The last twenty-five years have seen dramatic rises in the prison populations of most industrialised nations. Unable to keep up with increased numbers of convicted offenders, governments and criminal justice systems have been seeking new ways to control and punish offenders. One sanction adopted in …
Rethinking Homicide
Exploring the Structure and Process Underlying Deadly Situations
Av Terance D. Miethe, Wendy C. Regoeczi
Häftad, 2004
748 kr
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Using multiple data sources and methods, this book involves a micro-historical analysis of the nature of change and stability in homicide situations over time. It focuses on the homicide situation as the unit of analysis, and explores similarities and differences in the context of homicide for …
Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying
Av Hedieh Nasheri, Alfred Blumstein
Häftad, 2004
667 kr
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This 2005 book provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime in the burgeoning information society. Bringing together views from leading national and international authorities, Hedieh Nasheri explains the historical and theoretical background surrounding issues of …
Understanding Police Use of Force
Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity
Av Geoffrey P. Alpert, Roger G. Dunham
Häftad, 2004
406 kr
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Whenever police officers come into contact with citizens there is a chance that the encounter will digress to one in which force is used on a suspect. Fortunately, most police activities do not involve the use of force. But those that do reflect important patterns of interaction between the officer …
Life in the Gang
Family, Friends, and Violence
Av Scott H. Decker, Barrik van Winkle
Häftad, 1996
605 kr
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This study is based on three years of field work with 99 active gang members and 24 family members. The book describes the attractiveness of gangs, the process of joining, their chaotic and loose organisation, and their members' predominant activities - mostly hanging out, drinking, and using …
Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered
The Stockholm Metropolitan Project
Av Sheilagh Hodgins, Carl-Gunnar Janson
Inbunden, 2002
1563 kr
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In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians and law makers - assessing and managing the …
Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control
Av Sally S. Simpson, Alfred Blumstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1067 kr
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Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them to compliant status? In this book Sally Simpson examines whether the shift towards the use of criminal law, with its emphasis on punishment and …
The Criminal Recidivism Process
Av Edward Zamble, Vernon L. Quinsey m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1529 kr
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This book addresses how and why criminal offenders repeat their actions after being released from prison. It is part of an attempt to explain criminal behavior within the context of a contemporary psychological understanding of behavior, rather than more traditional theories of crime. Over 300 …
The Framework of Judicial Sentencing
A Study in Legal Decision Making
Inbunden, 1997
1928 kr
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Austin Lovegrove examines the sentencing of offenders appearing on multiple offences and how judges, having fixed a prison sentence for each offence, determine an overall sentence for each offender. Analysing judges' verbal protocols for sentencing problems and sentences for fictitious cases, he is …
Violence and Childhood in the Inner City
Av Joan Ed McCord, Joan McCord
Häftad, 1997
667 kr
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The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become …
Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control
Av Sally S. Simpson, Alfred Blumstein
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them to compliant status? In this book Sally Simpson examines whether the shift towards the use of criminal law, with its emphasis on punishment and …
Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State
How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons
Av Malcolm M. Feeley, Edward L. Rubin
Inbunden, 1998
2149 kr
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Between 1965 and 1990, federal judges in almost all of the states handed down sweeping rulings that affected virtually every prison and jail in the United States. Without a doubt judges were the most important prison reformers during this period. This book provides an account of this process, and …
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
Av Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
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667 kr
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This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in criminal records to age 40. The analysis …
