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  • Big Data

    Edited by Benoit Leclerc, Jesse Cale ...
    Series series Criminology at the Edge
    The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data aregenerated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.This often refers to big data . This book explores big data in organisations operating in thecriminology and criminal justice fields.Big data entails a major disruption in the ways we think about and do things, whichcertainly ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Crime Prevention in the 21st Century

    Insightful Approaches for Crime Prevention Initiatives

    Edited by Benoit LeClerc, Ernesto U. Savona ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to guiding efforts in preventing crime. The collection is divided into seven sections that cover cutting edge approaches to crime prevention:the offenders’ perspective on crime preventioncrime script analysiscrime mapping and spatial analysissocial network analysisagent-based modellingcrime ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Pathways to Sexual Aggression

    Edited by Jean Proulx, Eric Beauregard, Patrick Lussier, Benoit Leclerc ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
    Most people who read an article in the newspaper about the brutal rape of a woman by a stranger, or the long-standing sexual abuse of a young boy by his step-father have a strong visceral reaction which is a mix of anger, fear, and incomprehension. Apart from these aversive reactions, several questions also come to people’s minds: Was this offender crazy or sexually obsessed? What is the purpose ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cognition and Crime

    Offender Decision Making and Script Analyses

    Edited by Benoit Leclerc, Richard Wortley ...
    Series series Crime Science Series
    The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purposes of crime control and prevention. More than twenty-five years later, Cognition and Crime pushes the boundaries of this field of research by bringing together international leading (or emerging) researchers in this area of script analysis into a single ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Future of Rational Choice for Crime Prevention

    Edited by Benoit Leclerc, Danielle Reynald ...
    Series series Criminology at the Edge
    The rational choice perspective (RCP) is currently the core theoretical approach underpinning situational crime prevention (SCP). To date, many crimes have been studied through the lens of RCP, which increased our understanding of these phenomena, how they are committed and how they could potentially be prevented through SCP. This book, designed with the hope of moving RCP forward for SCP purposes ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis

    Edited by Richard Wortley, Michael Townsley ...
    Series series Crime Science Series
    Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful analyses of these environmental influences are the key to the effective investigation, control, and prevention of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Forensic Psychology

    Theory, research, policy and practice

    by Yvonne Shell, Terri Cole, Jennifer Brown ...
    Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2018 - Textbook category′This fascinating book examines some of the ideological underpinnings of forensic psychological research, policy and practice. It is refreshingly reflective and a significant contribution to the field. I strongly recommend it.′- Professor Graham Towl, Durham University and formerly Chief Psychologist at the Ministry of ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • The Psychology of Criminal Investigation

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Andy Griffiths, Rebecca Milne ...
    Series series Issues in Forensic Psychology
    The contribution of psychological research to the prevention of miscarriages of justice and the development of effective investigative techniques is now established to a point where law enforcement agencies in numerous countries either employ psychologists as part of their staff, or work in cooperation with academic institutions. The application of psychology to investigation is particularly ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making

    Edited by Jean-Louis van Gelder, Henk Elffers, Danielle Reynald, Daniel Nagin ...
    Series series Crime Science Series
    Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral economists and neuroscientists have found affect (i.e., emotions, moods) and visceral factors such as sexual ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology

    Edited by Gerben J.N. Bruinsma, Shane D. Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of how the environment, local geography, and physical locations influence crime has a long history that stretches across many research traditions. These include the neighborhood effects approach developed in the 1920s, the criminology of place, and a newer approach that attends to the perception of crime in communities. Aided by new technologies and improved data-reporting in recent ... Read more

    $151.19 USD

  • After Crime and Punishment

    Edited by Shadd Maruna, Russ Immarigeon ...
    The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Trafficked Young People

    Breaking the Wall of Silence

    by Jenny J. Pearce, Patricia Hynes, Silvie Bovarnick ...
    Series series Adolescence and Society
    Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call for a more sophisticated, informed and better developed understanding of the range of issues facing ... Read more

    $45.99 USD