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Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
ISBN: 9780822332466 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated discussions of criminology in Europe and the Americas from the 1880s into the early twentieth century. His book, " La donna delinquente," originally published in Italian in 1893, was the first and most influential book ever written on women and crime. This comprehensive new translation gives readers a full view of his landmark work.
Lombroso's research took him to police stations, prisons, and madhouses where he studied the tattoos, cranial capacities, and sexual... Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of the field of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated discussions of criminology i...
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137,09 |
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Corruption in Corporate Culture, 21
ISBN: 9780822365709 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues that there has been a serious breakdown in the systems designed to ensure fair dealings in the self-governing and self-policing worlds of US business and finance. Addressing several high-profile scandals, this work examines both the short- and the long-term ramifications of corporate corruption.
Argues that there has been a serious breakdown in the systems designed to ensure fair dealings in the self-governing and self-policing worlds of US bu...
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44,03 |
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Handbook of Criminal Justice Administration
ISBN: 9780824704186 / Angielski / Twarda / 501 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work addresses perspectives on the judicial, correctional and law enforcement components of the criminal justice system, including history, ethics, prevention, intervention, due process, marginalized populations, international consequences and demands for professionalism. It also examines critical variations in the criminal justice systems of countries worldwide.
This work addresses perspectives on the judicial, correctional and law enforcement components of the criminal justice system, including history, ethic...
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1591,76 |
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Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780824822804 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-five years after independence, Papua New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, a young and expanding population, a stagnant economy, corruption, and rising crime. The state has not only failed to contain these problems but has become progressively implicated in their persistence. Escalating levels of violence and lawlessness are seen by many as the most serious challenge facing the young country. This book examines these problems of order in light of Papua New Guinea's remarkable social diversity and the impact of rapid and... Twenty-five years after independence, Papua New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, a young and ex... |
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127,29 |
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Fatherhood Arrested
ISBN: 9780826514059 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime and young fatherhood have generally been viewed as separate social problems. Increasingly, researchers are finding that these problems are closely related and highly concentrated in low-income communities. Fatherhood Arrested is an in-depth study of these issues and the difficulties of parenting while in prison and on parole.
By taking us inside the prison system, Nurse shows how its structure actively shapes an inmate's relationship with his children. For example, visitation is sometimes restricted to blood relatives and wives. Because relationships between unmarried men and... Crime and young fatherhood have generally been viewed as separate social problems. Increasingly, researchers are finding that these problems are close...
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221,82 |
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Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners
ISBN: 9780826515681 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving backwards from the murders thirty-one men committed, through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, David Adams sought to understand what motivated these men to kill. The patterns he found reveal that the murders were neither impulsive crimes of passion nor were they indiscriminate. Why Do They Kill? is the first book to profile different types of wife killers, and to examine the courtship patterns of abusive men. The author shows that wife murders are not, for the most part, "crimes of passion," but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the...
Moving backwards from the murders thirty-one men committed, through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, David Adams sough...
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545,52 |
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Why Do They Kill?: Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners
ISBN: 9780826515698 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving backwards from the murders thirty-one men committed, through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, David Adams sought to understand what motivated these men to kill. The patterns he found reveal that the murders were neither impulsive crimes of passion nor were they indiscriminate. Why Do They Kill? is the first book to profile different types of wife killers, and to examine the courtship patterns of abusive men. The author shows that wife murders are not, for the most part, "crimes of passion," but culminations of lifelong predisposing factors of the...
Moving backwards from the murders thirty-one men committed, through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, David Adams sough...
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221,82 |
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Who Are the Guilty?: A Study of Education and Crime
ISBN: 9780837158075 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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360,89 |
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The Habitual Criminal
ISBN: 9780837166018 / Angielski / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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283,55 |
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Family Relationships and Delinquent Behavior
ISBN: 9780837169675 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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283,55 |
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The Soviet Secret Police.
ISBN: 9780837178523 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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381,51 |
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Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America
ISBN: 9780842026215 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, "Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America" reconstructs the way in which different Latin American societies have viewed, described, defined, and reacted to criminal behavior. Crime in Latin America is explored in terms of gender, race, class, and criminological theory.
The highly readable essays in this book explore how Catholic notions of sin, natural law, the divine rights of absolutist monarchs, liberal rights of man, positivism, and social Darwinism received a sympathetic, even enthusiastic, endorsement from policy... The only reader currently available on criminality in Latin America, "Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America" reconstructs the way in which diffe...
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195,91 |
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Civic Repentance
ISBN: 9780847692354 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by scholars of diverse backgrounds explores the notion of repentance in culture, focusing on individuals who have been excluded from society as a result of violating its laws. What must these individuals do to gain redemption and be readmitted?
This collection of essays by scholars of diverse backgrounds explores the notion of repentance in culture, focusing on individuals who have been exclu...
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186,11 |
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Homicide: A Sociological Explanation
ISBN: 9780847694723 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we explain such high levels of lethal violence in the world's leading democracy? Echoing Durkheim's Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America's murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets,...
The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we expl...
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519,16 |
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Homicide: A Sociological Explanation
ISBN: 9780847694730 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we explain such high levels of lethal violence in the world's leading democracy? Echoing Durkheim's Suicide, this book focuses on one important phenomenon to explain larger currents in American society. Leonard Beeghley examines the historical and cross-national dimensions of homicides and evaluates previous attempts to explain it. He finds the sources of America's murder rate in the greater availability of guns, the expansion of illegal drug markets,...
The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we expl...
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176,32 |
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What Is Crime?: Controversies Over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
ISBN: 9780847698073 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic human rights of their citizens, and who then polices governments? In What Is Crime? the first book-length treatment of the topic, contributors...
For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that ca...
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230,19 |
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Serial Offenders : Current Thought, Recent Findings
ISBN: 9780849322365 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although serial offenders have been a recognized problem in society for centuries, only recently have the complexities of these individuals come to light. Serial Offenders: Current Thought, Recent Findings presents current and inclusive information on serial offending in a clear and straightforward manner.Citing numerous case examples, this book will provide forensic psychologists and psychologists, as well as criminologists, social workers and corrections officials with relevant and informative data.Author Louis B. Schlesinger presents current thinking on serial offenders in the first of...
Although serial offenders have been a recognized problem in society for centuries, only recently have the complexities of these individuals come to li...
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759,15 |
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Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering
ISBN: 9780849328060 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intended for those interested in learning about the basic concepts of international crime and money laundering, this is: an explanation of money laundering terms and phrases; an overview of relevant federal agencies, transnational criminal organizations and basic investigative techniques; a study of the intricacies of wire transfers and cyberbanking; and an exploration of the phenomenon of the Web.
Intended for those interested in learning about the basic concepts of international crime and money laundering, this is: an explanation of money laund...
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1077,50 |
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Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill
ISBN: 9780849393662 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity.
Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of neonaticide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. Expanding on the first edition, published as Endangered Children:... From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavo...
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587,73 |
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Gender Issues, Sex Offenses, and Criminal Justice: Current Trends
ISBN: 9780866563574 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a powerful look at gender issues in the criminal justice system, particularly as gender is related to sex offenses and the system s response to those offenses. Experts examine inmate sexual aggression, gender disparity in bail setting, racial patterns of rape, the female offender s adjustment to prison life, the psychological profile of female first offenders, and the self-image of juvenile prostitutes."
Here is a powerful look at gender issues in the criminal justice system, particularly as gender is related to sex offenses and the system s response t...
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205,65 |
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