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  • Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics

    Why the UCR Diverges From the NCS

    by J.L. Peterson, Albert D. Biderman, James P. Lynch ...
    Series series Research in Criminology
    The prominence achieved by the novel measure of "households touched by crime" when it was introduced into the National Crime Survey (NCS) in 1981 was responsible for renewed attention to comparisons between the crime rates reported by the NCS and the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The new NCS measure suggested that crime was declining; this at a time of widespread awareness that the UCR Index was at ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Evil Next Door

    The Untold Stories of a Killer Undone by DNA

    by Amanda Lamb ...
    A brutal murder.An abundance of DNA evidence.A three-and-a-half year search for a killer who was always so close-yet untouchable.After the rape and murder of Raleigh, North Carolina, resident Stephanie Bennett, police had ample DNA evidence. They also had a suspect: the man next door. But for more than three years, he eluded them by refusing to hand over a DNA sample, wiping down anything he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Management Methods from the Mafia

    by Professor Giles W. Casaleggio ...
    Written by a former organized crime prosecutor, now a criminal justice professor, "Management Methods From The Mafia" is intended to inspire creative leadership alternatives by recounting the techniques employed by thirty notorious mobsters of the past. Intended primarily for future law enforcement administrators, its concepts are also applicable to other organizational fields where innovative ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Debating Difference

    Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India

    by Rochana Bajpai ...
    How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal democracies, demonstrating that argument and debate is crucial for reconciling the demands of group equality and civic unity. India offers a unique case of group-differentiated rights. Using landmark constitutional and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas

    Edited by A. Kalunta-Crumpton ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines race, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice in the Americas and moves beyond the traditional focus on North America to incorporate societies in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Privilege or Punish

    Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties

    by Dan Markel, Jennifer M Collins, Ethan J Leib ...
    This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status? And, second, how should a defendant's family status be recognized, if at all, in a criminal justice system situated within a liberal democracy committed to egalitarian principles of non-discrimination? After surveying the variety of "family ties ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Preventing Residential Burglary

    Toward More Effective Community Programs

    by James R. Gillham ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book evaluates the newest efforts and initiative aimed at preventing burglary, discusses their merits and short- comings, and suggests how improvements might be incorporated in burglary prevention programs. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Principles and Values in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

    Essays in Honour of Andrew Ashworth

    Edited by Lucia Zedner, Julian V. Roberts ...
    Celebrating the scholarship of Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, this collection brings together leading international scholars to explore questions of principle and value in criminal law and criminal justice. Internationally renowned for elaborating a body of principles and values that should underpin criminalization, the criminal process, and ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • The Gender of Reparations

    Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies while Redressing Human Rights Violations

    Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin ...
    Reparation programs seeking to provide for victims of gross and systematic human rights violations are becoming an increasingly frequent feature of transitional and post-conflict processes. Given that women represent a very large proportion of the victims of these conflicts and authoritarianism, it makes sense to examine whether reparation programs can be designed to redress women more fairly and ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • The Mother of All Crimes

    Human Rights, Criminalization and the Child Born Alive

    by Emma Cave ...
    This book considers the appropriate response of the criminal law with regard to women whose acts or omissions in pregnancy cause the death or injury of the child born alive. It compares recent developments in English law in the light of the Human Rights Act 1998, with those in America, which has seen an enormous growth in litigation over the last two decades. In England and Wales, the 'born alive ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Forensic Economics

    Assessing Personal Damages in Civil Litigation

    Edited by Frank D. Tinari ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is required not only to prove that the harm was, indeed, caused by the other party, but also to claim and demonstrate that a specified ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Exploring Green Criminology

    Toward a Green Criminological Revolution

    by Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky ...
    Series series Green Criminology
    Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglected by criminology. Others have suggested that green crimes present the most important challenge to criminology as a discipline. This book argues that criminology needs to take green harms more seriously and to be revolutionized so that it forms part of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD