Assessing the Police Use of Decoy Vehicles
Author: Joanna Sallybanks
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13:
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Handbook on Crime
Author: Fiona Brookman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 1124
ISBN-13: 1317436741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime. This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature. The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.
Handbook of Policing
Author: Tim Newburn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 906
ISBN-13: 1136308512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of the Handbook of Policing updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive, but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point, combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves.
The Science of Evaluation
Author: Ray Pawson
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1446290980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluation researchers are tasked with providing the evidence to guide programme building and to assess its outcomes. As such, they labour under the highest expectations - bringing independence and objectivity to policy making. They face huge challenges, given the complexity of modern interventions and the politicised backdrop to all of their investigations. They have responded with a huge portfolio of research techniques and, through their professional associations, have set up schemes to establish standards for evaluative inquiry and to accredit evaluation practitioners. A big question remains. Has this monumental effort produced a progressive, cumulative and authoritative body of knowledge that we might think of as evaluation science? This is the question addressed by Ray Pawson in this sequel to Realistic Evaluation and Evidence-based Policy. In answer, he provides a detailed blueprint for an evaluation science based on realist principles.
International Handbook of Criminology
Author: Shlomo Giora Shoham
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010-02-23
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 1420085522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second handbook in the Shoham trilogy, which includes the esteemed International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice and the upcoming International Handbook of Victimology, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of criminology theory. This text contains contributions from 25 of the top international scholars in the field across a wide range of disciplines. Topics include social deviance, research methods, biological and physiological explanations, personality types, and family socialization processes. The book also explores ecological and economic factors, differential association and situational crime prevention, cultural conflicts and immigration, as well as stigmas, group delinquency and juvenile delinquency.
Using Modeling to Predict and Prevent Victimization
Author: Ken Pease
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2014-01-09
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 3319031856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides clear application of a new statistical modeling technique that can be used to recognize patterns in victimization and prevent repeat victimization. The history of crime prevention techniques range from offender-based, to environment/situation-based, to victim-based. The authors of this work have found more accurate ways to predict and prevent victimization using a statistical modeling, based around crime concentration and sub-group profiling with regard to crime vulnerability levels, to predict areas and individuals vulnerable to crime. Following from this prediction, they propose policing strategies to improve crime prevention based on these predictions. With a combination of immediate actions and longer-term research recommendations, this work will be of interest to researchers and policy makers in focused on crime prevention, police studies, victimology and statistical applications.
Car Crime
Author: Claire Corbett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 113598803X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaire Corbett's 'Car Crime' embraces a much wider definition than theft of and from cars, and argues that 'car crime' by drivers - road rage, mobile phone use, speeding, etc. - has much greater social ramifications.
Risk Assessment and Management of Known Sexual and Violent Offenders
Author: Hazel Kemshall
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe role of Public Protection Panels is to assess and manage sexual and violent offenders in the community. The Panels' decisions are made on the basis of information from a range of risk assessment methods. This report provides an overview of the different means of risk assessment and management for such offenders.
The Role of the Forensic Medical Examiner with "drunken Detainees" in Police Custody
Author: Alison Noble
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReducing Crime
Author: Amanda Perry
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006-02-03
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0470023759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive research initiated by the UK Home Office, Reducing Crime offers an objective look at the effectiveness of criminal justice interventions in the reduction of crime. Bringing together information about where, for whom and at what cost these interventions are effective, the book examines alcohol prevention and drug treatment studies; courts, sentencing and police interventions; probation and prison interventions; and situational burglary and housing interventions. In addition to a cost/benefits analysis of each intervention, the book also discusses future research and policy directions.
