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The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics
ISBN: 9780415872720 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics. Through a critical engagement with theories of risk, the book develops Furedi's understanding of a Culture of Fear to illustrate how firstly, society today is best understood to be in a permanent state of anxiety, and secondly, how this state of affairs...
Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new crimi...
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249,23 |
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The Praeger Handbook of Victimology
ISBN: 9780313359354 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Praeger Handbook of Victimology" is the first full-scale reference to encompass the full scope of the discipline of victim studies, marking its evolution from an initial focus on homicide, child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence to a more wide-ranging modern interpretation that includes hate crimes, terrorism, and cyber crimes such as online bullying, stalking, and identity theft. "The Praeger Handbook of Victimology" offers an up-to-date portrait of its field, including the latest research from criminal justice studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines, as well... "The Praeger Handbook of Victimology" is the first full-scale reference to encompass the full scope of the discipline of victim studies, marking i... |
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The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City
ISBN: 9780803228047 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emerging from decades of turmoil, late nineteenth-century Mexico City was a capital in transition. Yet as the city (and its republic) embraced technological and social change, it still faced perceptions of widespread crime and disorder. Accordingly, the Porfirian government relied on an elite group of government officials, prominent citizens, politicians, urban professionals, and newspaper editors to elevate the Mexican nation from its perceived backward condition. Influenced by prevailing social theories, such as positivism and social Darwinism, this ruling class sought not only...
Emerging from decades of turmoil, late nineteenth-century Mexico City was a capital in transition. Yet as the city (and its republic) embraced technol...
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92,82 |
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Combating Piracy: Intellectual Property Theft and Fraud
ISBN: 9781412811460 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fraud and piracy of products and ideas have become common in the early twenty-first century, as opportunities to commit them expand, and technology makes fraud and piracy easy to carry out. In Combating Piracy: Intellectual Property Theft and Fraud, Jay S. Albanese and his contributors provide new analyses of intellectual property theft and how perpetrators innovate and adapt in response to shifting opportunities. The cases described here illustrate the wide-ranging nature of the activity and the spectrum of persons involved in piracy of intellectual property. Intellectual... Fraud and piracy of products and ideas have become common in the early twenty-first century, as opportunities to commit them expand, and technology... |
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239,45 |
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Putting Crime in Its Place: Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology
ISBN: 9781441909732 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This peer-reviewed collection of essays analyzes the problems involved in choosing units of analysis in geographic criminology. Written by experts in the field, the chapters address basic academic questions and provide real-life examples and applications.
This peer-reviewed collection of essays analyzes the problems involved in choosing units of analysis in geographic criminology. Written by experts in ...
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402,53 |
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Police Practices in Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781442200241 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an ever changing complex world, law enforcement must readily adapt to fight criminals/terrorists. This book, written by indigenous authors, provides unique insights into the seven countries being examined. Each chapter brings a unique viewpoint explaining the country's police from the perspective of that country's culture. The wide range of countries combined with native experts make this book a necessary first step toward properly handling international crime and terrorism.
In an ever changing complex world, law enforcement must readily adapt to fight criminals/terrorists. This book, written by indigenous authors, provide...
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488,78 |
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Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life Course
ISBN: 9781452217994 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do individuals exposed to the same environment turn out so differently, with some engaging in crime and others abiding by societal rules and norms? Why are males involved in violent crime more often than females? And why do the precursors of serious pathological behavior typically emerge in childhood? This fascinating text addresses key questions surrounding criminal propensity by discussing studies of the life-course perspective-criminological research that links biological factors associated with criminality with the social and environmental agents thought to cause, facilitate, or...
Why do individuals exposed to the same environment turn out so differently, with some engaging in crime and others abiding by societal rules and norms...
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410,57 |
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The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality
ISBN: 9781452242255 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book facilitates an open and honest debate about criminal behaviour between the more traditional criminologists who focus primarily on environmental factors and contemporary biosocial criminologists who examine the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors. It provides a contemporary approach by bringing to the table a new debate: the nurture vs. biosocial debate.
This book facilitates an open and honest debate about criminal behaviour between the more traditional criminologists who focus primarily on environmen...
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410,57 |
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Secure and Tranquil Travel
ISBN: 9780954560744 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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410,52 |
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The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
ISBN: 9781845193256 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many philosophers, including Aquinas, Locke, Schopenhauer, and Kant, have assumed that there is a link between cruelty to animals and violence to people. During the last 40 years, evidence for this view has steadily accumulated as a result of statistical, psychological, and medical investigations, and there is now a substantial body of supporting empirical evidence. The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence, now in paperback, brings together international experts from seven countries, to examine in detail: the relationships between animal abuse and child abuse, the emotional...
Many philosophers, including Aquinas, Locke, Schopenhauer, and Kant, have assumed that there is a link between cruelty to animals and violence to peop...
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169,53 |
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Gun Crime
ISBN: 9780754625858 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gun Crime brings together a collection of texts drawn from a diverse range of disciplines which have contributed towards understanding the impact of gun crime within western societies. The book is divided into four interconnected sections which examine the use of firearms to commit offences. Part one explores the problems of youth, gang membership and guns in society. Part two examines the act of robbery where firearms are deployed by criminals in order to facilitate and commission robbery offences. Part three analyses the problem of violence and homicide associated with firearm offending. In...
Gun Crime brings together a collection of texts drawn from a diverse range of disciplines which have contributed towards understanding the impact of g...
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1686,28 |
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Prisoner Reentry: Critical Issues and Policy Directions
ISBN: 9781137579287 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the field of prison reentry. Comprising reviews of empirical literature, this study is also supplemented by the workings of a reentry agency in the state of California. The focus of the work is to provide the best practices within prisoner reentry programs, to explore the barriers experienced by both prisoners and reentry agencies as they work toward the reentry...
This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much ...
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523,30 |
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Reflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Research
ISBN: 9781137546418 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research.
This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers w...
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483,04 |
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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet - With Preface on the Censorship
ISBN: 9781444644814 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read tod...
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80,17 |
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The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America
ISBN: 9781558497474 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the campaign against organized crime reinforced the fight against communism in an age of widespread uncertainty
How the campaign against organized crime reinforced the fight against communism in an age of widespread uncertainty
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136,80 |
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Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise
ISBN: 9780802038791 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Success in criminal enterprise largely depends on how offenders go about committing their crimes. An offender's search for increasing financial returns and decreasing costs is mediated by the structure of his pool of useful and trustworthy contacts. In Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise, Carlo Morselli examines how business-oriented criminals who have personal networks designed to promote high numbers of diverse contacts achieve and maintain competitive advantages in their earning activities and overall criminal careers. Based on two case studies of criminal careers... Success in criminal enterprise largely depends on how offenders go about committing their crimes. An offender's search for increasing financial ret... |
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249,28 |
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Critical Voices in Criminology
ISBN: 9780739120330 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Readers of criminological literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors. One learns their status, institutional location, and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presented with more detailed impressions of the authors as a combination of positivist assumptions and notions of professional competence seemingly render such information unimportant. However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their...
Readers of criminological literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the aut...
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244,34 |
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A Book of Remarkable Criminals
ISBN: 9781438520384 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,12 |
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Understanding the Components Within the Criminal Justice System 101
ISBN: 9781432718930 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book caters to all people whether citizens or permanent residents, but especially to those persons with little or no knowledge of the Judicial System. It also contains certain aspects for and regarding law enforcement personnel. When certain incidents occur, it makes the Justice system seems unfair to those victims crying out for justice. Therefore, it gives a basic perspective on the operation of the justice system. Finally, it's like a one stop Criminal Justice knowledge center. This book contains some Holy Scriptures that serves as a catalyst for the contents.
This book caters to all people whether citizens or permanent residents, but especially to those persons with little or no knowledge of the Judicial Sy...
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86,51 |
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Juvenile Delinquency and Its Origins
ISBN: 9780521295161 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile delinquency in Western society.
This book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile delinquency in Western society.
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201,85 |
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