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Do Police Need Guns?
This book challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed (Manchester, England and Auckland, New Zealand). With a focus on Western jurisdictions and by examining a range of documentary, media…
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- 978-981-15-9526-4
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- xv, 141p.:ill
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- 345.02 Eva d
Sex Workers and Their Clients
This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization. It does so by contrasting their voices with the claims made by prohibitionists: those advocating the prohibition of prostitution or, at least, the prohibition of the purchase of sexual services, and notes scholarly research that gives context to…
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- 978-3-030-61552-9
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- vii, 113p.:ill
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- 364 Mas s
Building a Culture of Lawfulness
This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the rule of law in an environment of complementary culture. It argues that the rule of law should not be defined solely through the development of institutions, but also through the mobilization of existing culture towards support for law and its enforcement. Recognizing that the rule of law is most often misunderstood by many, the book descri…
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- 978-3-030-87970-9
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- xiii, 100p.:ill
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- -
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- 364 Gra b
Gun Trafficking and Violence
This edited book addresses the issues of gun trafficking and gun violence across different regions of the world, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. It seeks to identify global key trends on gun trafficking and related violence and discuss different enforcement measures. Each chapter is written by teams of distinguished academics and/or experienced practitioners to include…
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- 978-3-030-65636-2
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- xxv, 313p.:ill
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- 364 Gun
Delinquency and Substance Use in Europe
This book examines the use of “Communities That Care” (CTC) interventions in European countries. It reports results obtained by using the CTC Youth Survey in five European countries covering different parts of Europe – Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, and Cyprus. The main aim of the book is to compare (a) the prevalence of delinquency and substance use, (b) the prevalenc…
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- 978-3-030-58442-9
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- xvi, 159p.:ill
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- 364 Del
Applied Research on Policing for Police
This brief discusses a series of empirical studies on policing in Cyprus, applying research to practice. It discusses police culture and tactics, and addresses politicized policing. Using primary data based on both quantitative and qualitative studies on the day-to-day issues of front-line policing in Cyprus, this volume will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners intereste…
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- 978-3-030-76377-0
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- 978-3-030-76377-0
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- 364 Con a
Researching Cybercrimes
This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods. The accessibility, variety and wealth of data available online presents substantial opportunities for researchers from different disciplines t…
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- 978-3-030-74837-1
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- XXIX, 539p.:ill
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- 345 Res
Blurring Intelligence Crime
This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social agenda, so that crime is designated according to the relative absence or presence of politics. In investigating this pro…
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- 978-981-16-0352-5
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- XII, 227p.:ill
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- -
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- 345 Lin b
Understanding Sexual Offending
Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending. It offers a critical overview of current criminal justice policies and close to 100 years of research on how to best improve these policies through theoretically-grounded and methodologically-rigorous researc…
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- 978-3-030-53301-4
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- xiv, 401p.:ill
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- 345 Lus a
Alcohol and Remembering Rape
This book examines how alcohol intoxication impacts upon the memory of rape victims and provides recommendations for how best to investigate and prosecute such rape complaints. An estimated 75% of victims are under the influence of alcohol during a sexual assault and yet there is surprisingly little guidance on conducting interviews with complainants who were alcohol-intoxicated during the atta…
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- 978-3-030-67867-8
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- XXI, 108p.:ill
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- 345 Alc
Histories Written by International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
This book argues for a more moderate approach to history-writing in international criminal adjudication by articulating the elements of a “responsible history” normative framework. The question of whether international criminal courts and tribunals (ICTs) ought to write historical narratives has gained renewed relevance in the context of the recent turn to history in international criminal …
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- 978-94-6265-427-3
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- XXIII, 258p.:ill
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- -
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- 341.5 Bar h
Environmental Crime and Restorative Justice
This book explores the use of restorative justice approaches in the context of environmental crimes. It critically assesses regular criminal justice approaches with regard to green crimes and explores restorative justice conferencing as an alternative. Focussing on justice approaches in Australia and New Zealand, it argues that court processes following environmental offending provide minimal t…
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- 978-3-030-69052-6
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- xiii, 266p.:ill
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- 345 Ham e
Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research
This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings. Prison contexts often have profound implications for the health of the people who live and work within them. Despite these settings often housing people from extremely disadvantaged and deprived communities, many with multipl…
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- 978-3-030-46401-1
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- XXIII, 336p.:ill
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- 345 Iss
Reproductive Violence and International Criminal Law
This book deals with the phenomenon of conflict-related reproductive violence and explores the international legal framework’s capacity to respond to it. The international discourse on gender-based violence in conflicts tends to focus on sexualized crimes, which leads to incomplete narratives of the gendered dimensions of armed conflicts. In particular, international law has often remained si…
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- 978-94-6265-451-8
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- X, 299p.:ill
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- 345 Alt r
Victims Before the International Criminal Court
The book analyses the difficulties the International Criminal Court faces with the definition of those persons who are eligible for participating in the proceedings. Establishing justice for victims is one of the most important aims of the court. It therefore created a unique system of victim participation. Since its first trial the court struggles to live up to the expectancies its statute has…
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- 978-3-030-80177-9
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- XII, 390p.:ill
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- 345 Saf v
Victims and Plea Negotiations
This book explores victims’ views of plea negotiations and the level of input that they desire. It draws on the empirical findings of the first in-depth study of victims and plea negotiations conducted in Australia. Over the last 50 years, the criminal justice system has seen major changes in both the role that victims play in the justice process and in how the vast majority of criminal cases…
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- 978-3-030-61383-9
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- XV, 139p.:ill
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- -
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- 364 Pre v
Crime, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Africa
This book aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for a myriad of crime and mental health topics and issues in the African criminal justice system from a psycho-criminological perspective. Crime, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Africa: A Psycho-Criminological Perspective is an ideal primary text for courses in criminology, criminal justice, and forensic psychology, as well as…
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- 978-3-030-71024-8
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- XXVIII, 411p.:ill
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- -
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- 364 Cri
Policing the Police in Asia
This brief offers an overview of the prevailing debates in police oversight and accountability through an analysis of policing in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. It places emphasis on three major controversies of oversight: professionalism, representation, and empowerment. Arguing that traditional models do not accurately depict variations in police systems in Asia, the volume aims to bring atten…
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- 978-3-030-82981-0
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- xii, 77p.:ill
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- -
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- 364 Pol
Acid Crime
This book provides an authoritative overview of the contemporary phenomenon widely labelled as ‘acid attacks’. Although once thought of as a predominantly ‘gendered crime’, acid and other corrosive substances have been used in a range of violence crimes. This book explores the historical use of corrosives in crime, legal definitions of such attacks, the contexts in which corrosives are …
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- 978-3-030-62296-1
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- xi, 204p.:ill
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- -
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- 364 Hop a
Mechanisms to Enable Follow-On Innovation
The patent system is based on "one-patent-per-product" presumption and therefore fails to sustain complex follow-on innovations that contain a number of patents. The book explains that follow-on innovations may be subject to market failures such as hold-ups and excessive royalties. For decades, scholars have debated whether the market problems can be solved with voluntary licensing i.e., open i…
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- 978-3-030-72257-9
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- xxiii, 450p.:ill
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- 364 Wer m
Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Thailand
This book explores how children have been affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Thailand, particularly in the region abutting the Thailand-Myanmar border, and in the most southern part of Thailand. The author argues that the Thai government has made great efforts to protect children from armed conflict in these borderlands. The author analyzes the obstacles facing the Thai governmen…
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- 978-981-16-1734-8
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- xiv, 80p.:ill
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- 364 Che c
Safety and Security in Hotels and Home Sharing
This brief comparatively reviews the security and safety features of hotels and home sharing services. It reviews crime data, laws, and applicable theories – such as defensible space, rational choice, and routine activity theories - to determine how responsibility for crime control and accident prevention in these industries is allotted.This analysis identifies key policy questions about the …
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- 978-3-030-59306-3
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- x, 98p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Bin s
Multilayered Structures of International Criminal Law
This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law. It covers both core crimes and other types of crime under international law, and examines relevant substantive and procedural rules alike. Pursuing such a comprehensive approach is essential to understanding the basic frameworks of international criminal law, since the varied persp…
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- 978-3-030-83845-4
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- ix, 221p.:ill
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- -
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- 341.5 Sat m
Policing, Mental Illness and Media
This book examines the complexities of the relationship between policing and mental health – in Australia especially – including the circumstances that lead to police use of force, and the ways in which news media typically report deaths resulting from police contact with people in mental health crisis. When a vulnerable member of society is killed by the police, it is only natural that que…
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- 978-3-030-61490-4
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- xii, 347p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Cli p
Regulating Undercover Law Enforcement: The Australian Experience
This book examines the way in which undercover police investigation has come to be regulated in Australia. Drawing on documentary and doctrinal legal analysis, this book investigates how, in the space of a single decade, Australian law makers set out to regulate one of the most difficult aspects of police: undercover investigation. In so doing, the Australian experience represents a paradigm mo…
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- 978-981-33-6381-6
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- xxiii, 370p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Mur r
Punctuated Peace in Nigeria’s Oil Region
This book examines the extent to which peacebuilding processes such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration are possible in the attempt to demilitarize Nigeria’s oil region and establish a stable post-conflict environment for nurturing durable peace. The book argues that the failure of the peacebuilders to address the structural tensions at the heart of insurgency, along with compet…
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- 978-3-030-86327-2
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- xxiv, 182p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Oko p
Procedural Safeguards for Suspects and Accused Persons in Criminal Proceedings
Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings. It is the result of a collaboration between scholars and legal practitioners, and the first work of its kind to examine all relevant rights and safeguards in a single vo…
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- 978-3-030-61177-4
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- vii. 84p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Pro
General Principles of Thai Criminal Law
This book is centered around the major issues relating to criminal law in Thailand and aims to offer a detailed and systematic overview of the Thai criminal justice system. It is designed as a traditional textbook of criminal law which provides a succinct focused coverage of all the relevant aspects of laws, judgments, and legal reforms in a concise and readable form. Although all topics have b…
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- 978-981-15-8708-5
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- xix, 156p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Sta g
Crime and Music
This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology. Contributors discuss a range of topics, from how songs and artists draw on criminality as inspiration to how musical expression fulfills unexpected functi…
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- 978-3-030-49878-8
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- x, 289p.:ill
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- -
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- 364 Cri
Trusted White-Collar Offenders
This book uses global case studies of white-collar crime to examine offenders in top business positions and their motives. Drawing on the theory of convenience, this book opens up new perspectives of white-collar offenders in terms of their financial motives, their professional opportunities, and their personal willingness for deviant behaviour. It focusses on three groups of privileged individ…
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- 978-3-030-73862-4
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- XIII, 355p.:ill
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- -
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- 345.02 Got t
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