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The Price of Sex
ISBN: 9781843920885 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a society we are buying more sex than ever before. Adult sex shops now take their place amongst retailers in the high street and lap dancing clubs compete for an increased share of the leisure economy; hotel chains offer sexually explicit films as part of their standard service, the party selling of adult toys to women in their homes has become a mainstream activity; and at the traditional end of the sexual service economy, prostitution has experienced new growth. Along with this has come new legal measures and attempts to regulate the sexual leisure economy, and far more comprehensive...
As a society we are buying more sex than ever before. Adult sex shops now take their place amongst retailers in the high street and lap dancing clubs ...
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661,20 |
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Crime Science
ISBN: 9781843920908 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime science is a multi-disciplinary new discipline that has the aim of understanding better how to prevent and detect crime, drawing on criminology, economics, psychology, mathematics, geography, architecture and other fields to examine crime patterns and to develop solutions to these problems. It provides an integrated approach to crime which its proponents believe will improve detection of crime, reduce the impact of crime and in due course result in less crime in society. This book provides an introduction to crime science, setting out its essentials; it provides a major statement of the...
Crime science is a multi-disciplinary new discipline that has the aim of understanding better how to prevent and detect crime, drawing on criminology,...
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538,76 |
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Policing: Key Readings
ISBN: 9781843920922 / Angielski / Twarda / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Policing has developed as an increasingly important and popular subject of study at colleges and universities in western societies, either as a subject in its own right or as part of broader courses in the field of criminology and criminal justice. At the same time police forces themselves have become increasingly professionalized and engaged with academic and theoretical debates on the nature of policing. Both students and practitioners have needed ready access to the growing body of literature and writing on policing. There now exists a body of work much of it North American, some of it...
Policing has developed as an increasingly important and popular subject of study at colleges and universities in western societies, either as a subjec...
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979,55 |
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Juvenile Justice Reform and Restorative Justice
ISBN: 9781843920953 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1990s restorative justice emerged as an international movement for criminal justice reform, and a number of countries adopted policies encouraging or requiring the use of restorative justice practices as an alternative or in addition to adversarial court proceedings. By 2001, almost every state in the US had begun to experiment with restorative justice practices. This book, based on a large-scale research project funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides an overview of the restorative justice conferencing programs currently in...
During the 1990s restorative justice emerged as an international movement for criminal justice reform, and a number of countries adopted policies enco...
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759,15 |
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Surviving Russian Prisons
ISBN: 9781843921035 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal practices in the contemporary Russian prison system. Surviving Russian Prisons focuses in particular on the reality of work and labor within Russian prisons, exploring its changing function. From being...
What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer ...
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710,17 |
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Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context
ISBN: 9781843921080 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond. Chapters in the book present a variety of approaches, ranging from global discussions of key issues and developments to an exploration of local case studies and their relationship to these...
This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire duri...
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538,76 |
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The New Punitiveness
ISBN: 9781843921103 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a new punitiveness in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to understand these developments, bringing together leading authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new penal trends, to compare the development of differing patterns of punishment across different types of societies, and to provide a range of theoretical analyses and commentaries to help understand their significance. As well as increases in imprisonment this book also addresses a...
Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a new punitiveness in penal...
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538,76 |
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Forensic Psychologists Casebook : Psychological profiling and criminal investigation
ISBN: 9781843921134 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how forensic psychology contributes to police investigations, providing practical information about the type of reports provided by psychologists and behavioral advisors, and set within a broader theoretical context. It asks the question 'What do practitioners actually do when they provide advice for the police and the courts and how do they do it?' The contributors to the book are all experts in the field of offender profiling and behavioral investigative advice. The chapters provide valuable insights into particular case details, the ethical and legal consequences of...
This book demonstrates how forensic psychology contributes to police investigations, providing practical information about the type of reports provide...
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979,55 |
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Questioning Crime and Criminology
ISBN: 9781843921271 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a text for criminology students designed to take them to the heart of the contradictions, confusions and blurred boundaries around the subject of crimeabout what crime is, about social regulation and control, and about social responsibility. It focuses on the key questions and issues underpinning them in contemporary definitions, representations and explanations of crime. It questions the platitudes and clichs surrounding public discussion of crime, by acknowledging the individual, social and political frameworks within which we explore crime and criminality. Questioning Crime and...
This is a text for criminology students designed to take them to the heart of the contradictions, confusions and blurred boundaries around the subject...
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538,76 |
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New Directions in Restorative Justice
ISBN: 9781843921332 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Directions in Restorative Justice addresses a number of key themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on papers originally presented at the 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is concerned with several new areas of practice within restorative justice, with sections on restorative justice and youth, aboriginal justice and restorative justice, victimization and restorative justice, and evaluating restorative justice. Contributors to the book are drawn from leading experts in the field from the UK, US, Europe, Canada,...
New Directions in Restorative Justice addresses a number of key themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on papers originally pres...
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747,55 |
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Handbook of Restorative Justice
ISBN: 9781843921516 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the field of criminology and justice studies. In the last decade, it has become a central topic in debates about the future of criminal justice. Hundreds of restorative justice schemes are being developed around the world, and they are attracting more and more attention from criminal justice academics, professionals, and policy-makers. The subject has reached a stage where a comprehensive, reliable, and accessible overview of the international...
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the fie...
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710,17 |
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Young People and Offending
ISBN: 9781843921554 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between education and youth crime has long been recognized in terms of social policy and public opinion, but the full extent of this and its implications have been largely neglected and unexplored. Educationalists on the one hand and crim
The relationship between education and youth crime has long been recognized in terms of social policy and public opinion, but the full extent of this ...
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710,17 |
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Expanding the Criminological Imagination
ISBN: 9781843921578 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. The books starting point is criminology's failure to adequately investigate genocide, western state terrorism, safety crime, environmental crimes, state crimes against children, and many other harmful acts. It establishes the conceptual and practical foundations for a new generation of studies in criminology, and sets a new agenda for critical criminology. Each...
This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critic...
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747,55 |
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Out of Order
ISBN: 9781843921639 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 1999. Women political prisoners were engaged in a campaign to obtain formal recognition as political prisoners, and then to retain this status after it was revoked. Their lengthy involvement in a prison conflict of international significance was notable as much because of its longevity as the radical aspects of their prison protests, which included hunger strikes, dirty-protests and campaigns against institutional abuses. Out of... This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 199... |
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514,26 |
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Fraud
ISBN: 9781843921738 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fraud remains one of the most important crimes, causing billions in losses each year. Thousands of people are employed to try to prevent it, but it has remained largely neglected in literature. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the main issues involved in fraudits definition, costs, the nature of the offenders involved in committing fraud, and the issues involved in fraud investigation. It is written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, and covers fraud in the widest sense, including benefit fraud, tax evasion, credit card fraud, and paying particular attention to...
Fraud remains one of the most important crimes, causing billions in losses each year. Thousands of people are employed to try to prevent it, but it ha...
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930,57 |
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Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety
ISBN: 9781843921752 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the general public. For many practitioners reducing fear of crime has become almost as important an issue as reducing crime itself. The identification of fear of crime as a serious policy problem has given rise to a massive amount of research activity, political discussion and intellectual debate. Despite this activity, actually reducing levels of fear of crime has proved difficult. Even in recent years... Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, poli... |
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710,17 |
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Theorizing Surveillance
ISBN: 9781843921929 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practices in contemporary society. Surveillance studies is a relatively new multi-disciplinary enterprise that aims to understand who watches who, how the watched participate in and sometimes question their surveillance, why surveillance occurs, and with what effects. This book brings together some of the world's leading surveillance scholars to discuss the "why" question. The field has been dominated, since the groundbreaking work of Michel Foucault, by the idea of the panopticon and this book explores why this metaphor has been...
This book is about explaining surveillance processes and practices in contemporary society. Surveillance studies is a relatively new multi-disciplinar...
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759,15 |
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Narratives of Neglect: Community, Regeneration and the Governance of Security
ISBN: 9781843921950 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it addresses the local governance of security and the ways in which the community engaged with attempts to improve the 'quality of life' of its residents and to attract wealthier new residents in the future. It explores in particular the meaning of notions of 'social capital' and 'partnerships' which often take little account of local power dynamics, seeking rather to find ways of mobilizing... This book tells the story of the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regenera... |
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661,20 |
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Crime Online
ISBN: 9781843921981 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a highly authoritative account and analysis of key issues within the rapidly burgeoning field of cybercrime. Drawing upon a range of internationally known experts in the fields, and representing a variety of different disciplines, Crime Online focuses on different constructions and manifestations of cybercrime and diverse responses to its regulation. It will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of crime, policing, and legislation.
This book provides a highly authoritative account and analysis of key issues within the rapidly burgeoning field of cybercrime. Drawing upon a range o...
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710,17 |
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Gender and Justice
ISBN: 9781843922001 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 21st century. Organized into sections on gender and offending behavior, gender and the criminal justice system, and new concepts and approaches, Gender and Justice will be essential for all students taking courses in criminology and criminal justice.
This book provides a key text for students seeking to understand feminist and gendered perspectives on criminology and criminal justice, bringing toge...
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710,17 |
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