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Transforming Youth Justice: Occupational Identity and Cultural Change
ISBN: 9781843921936 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1997 the newly modernized Labour party swept into power promising a radical overhaul of the youth justice system. The creation of inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) for the delivery of youth justice services were the cornerstone of the new approach. These new YOTs were designed to tackle an 'excuse culture' that was allegedto pervade the youth justice system and aimed to encourage the emergence of a shared culture among youth justice practitioners from different agencies. The transformation of the youth justice system brought about a period of intense disruption for the...
In 1997 the newly modernized Labour party swept into power promising a radical overhaul of the youth justice system. The creation of inter-agency Yout...
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734,66 |
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Theorizing Surveillance
ISBN: 9781843921912 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together some of the world's leading surveillance scholars to discuss the "why" question. This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practices in contemporary society. It explores the theoretical questions in a way that is grounded in
Brings together some of the world's leading surveillance scholars to discuss the "why" question. This book is about explaining surveillance processes ...
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Social Policy, Crime and Punishment : Essays in Memory of Jane Morgan
ISBN: 9780708312582 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contents of this text on social policy, crime and punishment include: crime in the South Wales police district; researching the child victims; justice and responsibility; and race relations in prisons.
The contents of this text on social policy, crime and punishment include: crime in the South Wales police district; researching the child victims; jus...
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Crime Surveys and Victims of Crime
ISBN: 9780708313640 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This full length study provides a basic account of the rationale and content of victimization surveys; it examines the value of crime/victim surveys and deals with the shortcomings of official statistics gathered by the police. Unlike police figures, victimization surveys are able to study the effects of crime and the social variables which are associated with a high risk of victimization. Crime patterns, repoorting trends, the use and abuse of statistics, attitudes towards the police, fear of crime, and lessons for crime prevention are all examined within this text. Both nationwide and...
This full length study provides a basic account of the rationale and content of victimization surveys; it examines the value of crime/victim surveys a...
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Global War on Terrorism: Assessing the American Response
ISBN: 9781594542282 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Schools and the Problem of Crime
ISBN: 9781843921783 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What causes young people to offend? This book examines the causes of offending in the school context among 3103 male and female Year 10 pupils in 20 state schools in Cardiff. It envisages that future crime prevention strategies can be better informed through gaining an understanding of the factors that cause young people to offend.
What causes young people to offend? This book examines the causes of offending in the school context among 3103 male and female Year 10 pupils in 20 s...
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Adolescent Crime
ISBN: 9781843921776 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines young people's involvement in crime as both victims and offenders. This book offers an understanding of adolescent crime by studying the relationship between individual characteristics and lifestyles, and their joint influence on adolescent involv
Examines young people's involvement in crime as both victims and offenders. This book offers an understanding of adolescent crime by studying the rela...
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710,17 |
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Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security
ISBN: 9780415403399 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The perceived threat of 'transnational organised crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy-makers and social scientists over the last decade. This book considers the origins of this crime, how it has been defined and measured, and the appropriateness of governments' policy responses. The contributors argue that while serious harm is often caused by transnational criminal activity - for example, trafficking in human beings - the construction of that criminal activity as an external threat obscures the origins of these crimes in the markets for illicit... The perceived threat of 'transnational organised crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy-makers and social sci... |
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Pathways and Crime Prevention
ISBN: 9781843922018 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families, and explores new evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research. It addresses a number of key challenges, arguing that by broadening the research questions and exploring contributions from a wider range of disciplines our understanding of both the pathways into and out of crime and the type of interventions that might work will be greatly enhanced.
This book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young pe...
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235,04 |
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Crime Online
ISBN: 9781843921974 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an account and an analysis of key issues within the field of cybercrime. This book focuses on different constructions and manifestations of cybercrime and diverse responses to its regulation. It is a useful reading for anybody with an interest in
Provides an account and an analysis of key issues within the field of cybercrime. This book focuses on different constructions and manifestations of c...
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Gender and Justice
ISBN: 9781843921998 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Questions about gender, justice and crime are constantly in the public arena, whether they focus on young women getting drunk or taking drugs, or the rising numbers of women going to prison or committing violent crimes, or reports of macho behaviour on the part of men in the military, law enforcement or professional sport. This book provides a key text for students seeking to understand feminist and gendered perspectives on criminology and criminal justice, bringing together the most innovative research and work which has taken the study of the relationship between gender and justice into the...
Questions about gender, justice and crime are constantly in the public arena, whether they focus on young women getting drunk or taking drugs, or the ...
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Young Men in Prison
ISBN: 9781843922032 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how young men between the ages of 18 and 21 make the transition to prison life, and how they adapt practically, socially, and psychologically. Based on extensive research in the UKs Feltham Young Offenders Institution, this book examines in particular the role of social support, both inside and outside prison, in relation to their adaptation, along with the constructs of trust, locus of control, and safety. The book concentrates both on the successful adaptation to prison life and on the experience of individuals who have difficulties in adapting. It pays special attention...
This book examines how young men between the ages of 18 and 21 make the transition to prison life, and how they adapt practically, socially, and psych...
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734,66 |
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Careers in Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9781483379067 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifica
Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifica
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181,17 |
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Pathways and Crime Prevention
ISBN: 9781843922025 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text deals with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people and their families. It explores evidence that has been emerging from longitudinal and developmental prevention research.
This text deals with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young people an...
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538,76 |
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Policing Gangs in America
ISBN: 9780521851107 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describing the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today, the primary focus of this book is on gang unit officers and the environment in which they work. The book is broadly focused on describing how gang units respond to community gang problems, and answers such questions as: Why do police agencies organize their responses to gangs in certain ways? Who are the people who elect to police gangs? What are their jobs really like? How do their responses to the gang problem compare with other policing strategies,...
Describing the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today, the prima...
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Invisible Crimes: Their Victims and Their Regulation
ISBN: 9780333794173 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invisible Crimes is an edited volume containing a collection of articles from a distinguished panel of academics. The book explores many features of 'invisible' crimes and in doing so provides numerous examples of hidden crimes and victimisations. The book will be invaluable to students of criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It will also inspire academics from a range of disciplines to update, rewrite and offer new courses on neglected crimes and victimisations.
Invisible Crimes is an edited volume containing a collection of articles from a distinguished panel of academics. The book explores many features of '...
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402,53 |
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The Legitimization of Violence
ISBN: 9780333637449 / Angielski / Twarda / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of itself. In The Legitimization of Violence eight well-known specialists explore various types of violence, from ideological to fundamentalist movements, within a framework of comparative theory.
Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not...
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Addictive Behaviour: Molecules to Mankind: Perspectives on the Nature of Addiction
ISBN: 9780333645550 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this health-conscious age there is increasing concern about tobacco smoking and inappropriate consumption levels of alcohol. Alcoholism poses an important occupational health problem which can affect an individual's personal welfare and limit his or her efficiency at work. There is concern about the increasing availability of drugs in society, the link between drug-taking and the spread of HIV in society, and the ways in which substance misuse generates more violence within society. Both excessive alcohol consumption and drug-taking may dispose an individual to antisocial actions and lead...
In this health-conscious age there is increasing concern about tobacco smoking and inappropriate consumption levels of alcohol. Alcoholism poses an im...
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Prisons, Peace and Terrorism: Penal Policy in the Reduction of Political Violence in Northern Ireland, Italy and the Spanish Basque Country, 1968-97
ISBN: 9780333732069 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive analysis of the role that prison policy can play in the reduction of terrorism, this book examines the experience of three western Europe jurisdictions: Northern Ireland, Italy and the Spanish Basque Country. It looks at the role of the prisons both as tools for counter-insurgency and as part of a process of conflict resolution. It looks in detail at each jurisdiction and then compares the experience of the three conflicts.
A comprehensive analysis of the role that prison policy can play in the reduction of terrorism, this book examines the experience of three western Eur...
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Policing Urban Poverty
ISBN: 9780333748589 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 19th century, a core task of the police has been crime control and order maintenance, especially in poor communities. This text focuses on the policy implications of discourses on poverty and crime in America and Britain. It draws on sociological theory and extensive empirical evidence, which show that in the 1990s, senior police policy makers have been involved in a struggle with their political masters in determining the most judicious means to tackle urban poverty and crime.
Since the 19th century, a core task of the police has been crime control and order maintenance, especially in poor communities. This text focuses on t...
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266,99 |