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De moda gracias a series como CSI, la investigación forense se dedica a escudriñar en lo más microscópico para dar respuesta a determinados sucesos. Esta especialidad, de nombre poco atractivo, llev……続きを見る

Understanding prisons and the policies surrounding them is of fundamental importance to students and practitioners of criminology and related fields. This concise and accessible guide offers a compe……続きを見る

O livro apresenta os aspectos essenciais da Lei Anticorrupção brasileira, seus conceitos fundamentais. Informa os principais elementos e pilares sobre os quais se sustenta a norma anticorrupção bras……続きを見る

Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is an edited collection focused on current challenges, innovations and positive achievements in gender integration in policing in different sub……続きを見る

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women’s desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective. The book is b……続きを見る

In The Margin's 2024 Social Justice Recommendation List In The Incarceration of Native American Women, Carma Corcoran examines the rising number of Native American women being incarcerated in Indian……続きを見る

This book explores how prison life is normalized in different countries, with a critical and detailed look at ‘Scandinavian exceptionalism’ ー the idea that Scandinavian prisons have exceptionally h……続きを見る

Within corrections, women have made notable impacts in policy, cultural changes, and leadership, yet they have received little attention and study. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, this b……続きを見る

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical references for the construction of a transformative just……続きを見る

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK. The majority of deaths in prison cus……続きを見る

The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefro……続きを見る

Although the right to trial by jury is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, in recent years both criminal and civil juries have been criticized as incompetent, biased, and irresponsible. For example,……続きを見る

After 13 years of struggling in the music business, Robert Reilly found himself broke and on the edge of despair. The specter of success in the music business had become a monster about to ruin his ……続きを見る

This book examines how those with disabilities, and in particular, the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, are impacted by the influence language and culture in policing, criminal law, and corrections. Freque……続きを見る

The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person’s life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the……続きを見る

This work assesses the various meanings attached to calls for police reform in the public discourse on social media, providing readers with a greater appreciation of the assumptions, empirical claim……続きを見る

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 leav……続きを見る

An original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions togetherーwritten by a leading authority on bail r……続きを見る

• First holistic account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice. • Co-produced by academics, practitioners and service users. As such, it provides a unique and overarching discussion of the ……続きを見る

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are interested to know more about this dynamic and rewarding……続きを見る

This book speaks to those interested in topics related to punitiveness and public attitudes to crime and punishment. Punitiveness has been the focus of increasing criminological attention in recent ……続きを見る

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It describes the terrorism as a by-product of……続きを見る

What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison? This book summarizes contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion in correctional contexts, enabling a scientific understanding o……続きを見る

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of these reforms and explains why they……続きを見る

Taking an innovative approach, this book looks at how U.S. presidents and their administrations' policies from the late 1960s to 2017 have led to rampant over-imprisonment and a public policy catast……続きを見る

Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual disability. First, the fa……続きを見る

A useful research resource and handy reference, this book discusses the many important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners at correctional facilities. It ……続きを見る

"If I do not write, who will? What I am living with here does not allow me to wait until others fully wake up to the serious harm prisons cause." Falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life in……続きを見る

With a foreword by Bruce Western Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR The most comprehensive critique of probation and paroleーand a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both……続きを見る

This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system. This systemーmade up of numerous producers, processors, distributors, and retailers of fo……続きを見る