Crime & criminology (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. and from Euripides to Edward Said.

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Demonstrating that animal cruelty behaviours are another form of antisocial behaviour, alongside human aggression and violence, and almost without exception are carried out by the same individuals this book offers clear recommendations for future res...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as skepticism concerning non-human experience, cultural roots of compassion, and contemporary approaches to animal ethics. At its center...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book critically analyses the role of the United Arab Emirates Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in the Suspicious Activities Reports regime. The author pays particular attention to its functions and powers in dealing with Suspicious Activities R...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime. In this thought-provoking work, Mark Wood exam...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:This book provides a novel approach to the social scientific study of violence. It argues for an 'extended' definition of violence in order to avoid subscribing to commonsensical or state propagated definitions of violence, and pays specific attentio...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über praxisrelevante rechtliche Fragen im Zusammenhang mit Compliance-Verstößen. Von Routinekontrollen bis zum Ernstfall der Ermittlungen gegen Unternehmensangehörige wird dargestellt, wie Unternehmen das Verhalten ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Autorität ist das Thema dieses Buches. Eskalationen im Polizeidienst, die offenbar im Zuge der Individualisierung eine neue Qualität erreicht haben, erfordern ein Umdenken der Polizei. Das betrifft besonders das antiquierte Autoritätsverständnis der ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Dieses Werk bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der Ballistik mit engem Bezug zur Praxis. Es beschreibt kaliberunabhängig die Grundlagen und Rechenmodelle in den vier Haupt­gebieten der Ballistik mit vielen Fakten, Hinweisen und Beispielen aus der jah...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law, providing a coherent expression of the relationships between these newly constructed concepts and thus a radically new ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Der Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, Praktiker in den sozialtherapeutischen Einrichtungen des Justizvollzugs und des Maßregelvollzugs über Standards bei der Behandlung von Straftätern und über Ergebnisse aus der Behandlungsforschung zu informieren. Dabe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book addresses the complex issue of incarceration of Latino/as and offers a comprehensive overview of such topics as deportations in historical context, a case study of latino/a resistance to prisons in the 70s, the issues of youth and and girls...