Catálogo de libros: Delito y criminología

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  • Voices from Death Row, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves. ...
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    121,31 €

  • Voices from Death Row, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson / Diane Christian
    A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas’s Death Row-told in the words of the prisoners themselves. ...
    Disponible

    25,24 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    18,71 €

  • Crime and Reconciliation
    Mark Umbreit
    Crime and Reconciliation describes the original setting in the United States where contemporary restorative justice practices first took root. Having worked with the Indiana-based Prisoner and Community Together program (PACT), which eventually advocated for healing dialogue between offending and victimized parties along with family and community members, Mark Umbreit received ...
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    35,46 €

  • Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity
    Julia Hillner
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    34,83 €

  • Gendered Justice?
    Jo Roberts
    Built upon the foundations of women’s real-life experiences, which have real-world implications, Gendered Justice? introduces a range of recommendations and implications for both policy and practice in the field of criminal justice. ...
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    136,25 €

  • Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland
    This volume contains an Open Access Chapter Leading scholars on Irish penal history and theory explore trends and debates that have surrounded patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State and foreground often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment. ...
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    136,90 €

  • Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso
    Cesare Lombroso / Gina Lombroso Ferrero
    Written while Lombroso was professor of forensic medicine at the University of Turin, L’Uomo delinquente (Criminal Man) set out to conduct an anthropological study of its subject. The premise was that the criminal is born and could be identified from congenital traits. By learning to recognise them, and by developing a detailed system of classification, the aim was better to un...
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    49,02 €

  • Addiction Recovery and Resilience
    Townsand Price-Spratlen
    Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood. ...
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    41,96 €

  • Creating the Boston Police
    Timothy B. Riordan
    The Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in the poorest district of Boston, and was charged with two assaults. When Francis Tukey became City Marshal in 1846, he faced off against some of the most notorious criminals of the time. Under Tukey’s leadership, the police were known for their coordinated 'descents' on gamblers, r...
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    42,76 €

  • Motherhood In and After Prison
    Lucy Baldwin
    Motherhood In and After Prison focuses on how imprisonment impacts incarcerated mothers’ maternal identity, emotions and role. It explores both the short and longer-term consequences of sending mothers to prison. It reveals the devastating and often underestimated impact of maternal imprisonment on mothers themselves, on their children, and on their families and their place in ...
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    50,53 €

  • Testing Criminal Career Theories in British and American Longitudinal Studies
    David P. Farrington / John F. MacLeod
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    23,82 €

  • Cases on Crimes, Investigations, and Media Coverage
    Liam James Leonard
    Media has a great influence on the perceptions and opinions of the public throughout varying areas, particularly for crimes, investigations, and trials. People receive information about these key events through some form of media, and the way the facts are represented is crucial to what people will believe. To fully understand the sway media has on public opinion, further study...
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    281,81 €

  • Cases on Crimes, Investigations, and Media Coverage
    Liam James Leonard
    Media has a great influence on the perceptions and opinions of the public throughout varying areas, particularly for crimes, investigations, and trials. People receive information about these key events through some form of media, and the way the facts are represented is crucial to what people will believe. To fully understand the sway media has on public opinion, further study...
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    215,96 €

  • Privilege and Punishment
    Matthew Clair
    How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court-and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privile...
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    27,74 €

  • Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse
    Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
    Despite being recognised by victim-survivors as a tactic used by abusers, economic abuse has received little attention in research, policy, or practice. This powerful book provides a crucial validation of the lived experience of victim-survivors, and highlights the urgent need to develop effective responses to economic abuse. ...
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    61,19 €

  • Legal Executions by the United States Military
    R. Michael Wilson
    During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life in prison or death for crimes of murder, rape or desertion. Only 160 men were sentenced to death and executed--159 for murder or ra...
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    137,69 €

  • Making Sense of Ultra-Realism
    Anthony Lloyd / Justin Kotzé
    Making Sense of Ultra-Realism offers a unique insight into one of the most significant theoretical advances in 21st century criminology, drawing upon popular films and television series to contextualise and clarify the ultra-realist school of thought and providing a theoretically rich yet accessible introduction to the topic. ...
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    87,91 €

  • Comparative Criminology Across Western and African Perspectives
    Crime prevention is essential to the success of any civilization. Effective criminal justice systems contribute greatly to the prevention of crime. However, clashing traditional and modern theories regarding appropriate action within criminal justice organizations can cause these systems to fail even when personnel is beyond reproach. Successfully blending traditional and moder...
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    327,78 €

  • Handbook of Research on Present and Future Paradigms in Human Trafficking
    Essien D. Essien
    Human trafficking is currently regarded as a contemporary form of slavery. However, despite many initiatives undertaken over the last two decades to tackle the problem, there seems to be a disproportionate emphasis on the social phenomenon. Trafficking in persons remains a little-explored area in scholarship with many inconsistencies and ambiguities yet to be attended to. Human...
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    387,17 €

  • A Land Fit for Criminals
    David Fraser
    The British public today endure some of the world’s worst crime levels. According to the government’s own estimates, 132 million indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially t...
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    20,79 €

  • Licence to Kill
    David Fraser
    Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser demonstrates that Britain’s increased reliance on alternatives to imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty years but justice officials have masked this develop...
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    19,39 €

  • Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
    This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization, domestic violence and human rights. ...
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    167,81 €

  • Confronting School Violence
    Jillian J. Turanovic
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    23,99 €

  • FROM OPIUM TO METHAMPHETAMINES
    WOLFGANG SACHSENRODER
    Southeast Asia is one of the biggest marketplaces for illicit drugs. The international syndicates with their billion-dollar profits are similar to the Hydra of the old Greek mythology which grew two new heads if one was cut off. Hercules eventually killed the monster with the help of his nephew who cauterised the fresh wounds before new heads could emerge. This story describes ...
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    93,45 €

  • Mental Me
    Justin Rollins
    Justin Rollins’ acclaimed The Lost Boyz followed his early life on the streets. Ten years on, this new book describes how he served time in adult prisons, triggering paranoia, fears, flashbacks and fixations. Mental Me tells how he overcame his locked-in thinking, dread of authority and nemesis ’Wayne Lister’ to become an expert on gangs and youth crime. It traces the ’ghosts’ ...
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    28,23 €

  • The Spectacle of Criminal Justice
    Rosie Smith
    Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitised public engagement with the implementation of control and justice. ...
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    136,27 €

  • Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
    This volume contains two Open Access Chapters. This volume features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia. ...
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    134,59 €

  • Criminological Research
    Jamie Harding
    A comprehensive guide to the research process, using criminological examples drawn mainly from the UK. Provides students with the skills and knowledge both to conduct their own research, and to evaluate the research of others, with frequent explicit discussions of the key points in each of these areas. ...
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    152,94 €

  • Criminological Research
    Jamie Harding
    A comprehensive guide to the research process, using criminological examples drawn mainly from the UK. Provides students with the skills and knowledge both to conduct their own research, and to evaluate the research of others, with frequent explicit discussions of the key points in each of these areas. ...
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    55,05 €


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