Catálogo de libros: Delito y criminología

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  • Spiritual Entrepreneurs
    Brad Stoddard
    The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs. Looking for innovative solutions to the crises produced by gigantic prison populations, Florida’s Department of Corrections claims to have found a partial remedy in the form of faith and character-bas...
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    38,07 €

  • A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime
    Anthony A. Braga / Anthony ABraga
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    24,06 €

  • Youth and Crime
    John Muncie
    A newly updated and significantly expanded fifth edition of Youth and Crime. The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice available. ...
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    92,18 €

  • Youth and Crime
    John Muncie
    A newly updated and significantly expanded fifth edition of Youth and Crime. The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice available. ...
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    221,20 €

  • GIVE US MORE GUNS - How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed
    Mark Shaw
    The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called ’guns to gangs’ saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa’s criminal underworld.It began in 2007 when Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo and his cronies began selling thousands of decommissioned police weapons to gang lords. Prinsloo’s...
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    23,33 €

  • Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice
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    248,73 €

  • CARNAGE
    Thomas Gabor
    In his book CARNAGE, Thomas Gabor examines the 1,000+ mass shootings in America in 2019-2020, as well as trends in US mass shootings. CARNAGE explores the geography and demographics of mass shootings, weapons used, extent of defensive gun uses by victims, and the settings and circumstances of mass shootings.Gabor’s analysis shatters the myth that most mass shootings are random...
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    20,01 €

  • Connecting with Young People in Trouble
    Andi Brierley
    This powerful critique of youth justice based on lived experience, theory and practice looks at the topic through a refreshing new lens, suggesting that some existing ways of dealing with children and young people may do more harm than good. After making readers aware of Risk Relation Paradox, the author shows that positive outcomes cannot be imposed or directed but that they c...
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    48,37 €

  • The Ambiguities of Desistance
    David Honeywell
    This book explores the ongoing and individual desistance journeys of ex-offenders during re-integration into society. It introduces nuanced and rich data around the growing interest in desistance, examines the reasons why individuals move away from crime, and highlights the importance of Higher Education as a conduit for change and rehabilitation. ...
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    88,04 €

  • Empire of Hell
    Hilary M. Carey / Hilary MCarey
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    41,31 €

  • The Felon - Essays on Crime and the Criminal
    Various
    “The Felon” is a fantastic collection of classic essays on the subject of crime by a variety of authors including criminologists, doctors, criminal psychologists, social workers, and more. They cover a broad range of topics related to crime from the history of criminal law and dealing with crime, to understanding the criminal mind and beyond. Highly recommended for those with a...
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    24,36 €

  • Examining Gun Regulations, Warning Behaviors, and Policies to Prevent Mass Shootings
    Selina E.M. Kerr / Selina E.MKerr
    Mass shootings have become more prevalent in the past few decades, especially within the United States. Whilst the United States has suffered from hundreds of mass shootings over the years, policy change relating to guns has been limited in scope, particularly when compared with other developed nations. Recognizing that the United States has a different history and culture, new...
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    281,64 €

  • Listening to the Movement
    Restorative justice is spreading like wildfire across the globe. How can we explain this burst of energy? This anthology makes the bold claim that restorative justice is a vibrant social justice movement. It is more than a great idea gone viral, more than the extension of the legal system, and more than enacting new legislation. Beginning in 2015, the contributors of this volum...
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    25,01 €

  • Listening to the Movement
    Restorative justice is spreading like wildfire across the globe. How can we explain this burst of energy? This anthology makes the bold claim that restorative justice is a vibrant social justice movement. It is more than a great idea gone viral, more than the extension of the legal system, and more than enacting new legislation. Beginning in 2015, the contributors of this volum...
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    37,49 €

  • The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development
    August John Hoffman / Michelle Filkins / Saul Alamilla
    The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development provides a concise summary of the evolutionary roots of conflict and proposes several viable interventions that will help build a stronger, resilient, and more tolerant society. ...
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    129,25 €

  • Sensory Penalities
    Sensory Penalties aims to reinvigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in empirical investigation. It explores the visceral, personal reflections buried within forgotten criminological field notes, to ask what privileging these sensorial experiences does for how we understand and research spaces of punishment and social control. ...
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    142,62 €

  • Examining Gun Regulations, Warning Behaviors, and Policies to Prevent Mass Shootings
    Selina E.M. Kerr / Selina E.MKerr
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    215,79 €

  • Making Sense of Homicide
    Adam Lynes / Elizabeth Yardley / Lucas Danos
    The first dedicated textbook for Criminology students studying homicide. As the authors explain, criminal homicide is but one form of lethal violence victims may suffer, leading them to describe a much broader range of scenarios. Ranging from murder to manslaughter to State killings, genocide and disasters involving victims of public policy, corporate crime or shortcomings in h...
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    64,02 €

  • Sisyphus No More
    Harvey McCloud / Roger C. Byrd / Roger CByrd
    Sisyphus No More presents compelling psychological, sociological, ethical, and financial grounds for providing more and better education and training to our incarcerated population. The arguments show that education and training programs humanize prisoners, support their reintegration into society and securing a living-wage job. ...
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    115,51 €

  • Civilization and Barbarism
    Graeme R. Newman / Graeme RNewman
    Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative. ...
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    41,95 €

  • A Socio-Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic
    Bruno Meini
    In the world of the 21st century, epidemics are common biological and social occurrences, with HIV perhaps emphasising this better than any other disease. Medical scientific research has undoubtedly made significant steps forward; meanwhile, the social research field is still in its initial stages, with many awaiting an equally auspicious response. A Socio-Criminological Analys...
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    48,43 €

  • Stop Trying to Fix Policing
    Tony Gaskew
    Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. ...
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    122,68 €

  • Sex and Crime
    Alexandra Fanghanel / Emma Milne / Giulia F. Zampini
    A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. ...
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    53,47 €

  • Sex and Crime
    Alexandra Fanghanel / Emma Milne / Giulia F. Zampini
    A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. ...
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    152,39 €

  • Stratified Policing
    Rachel Santos / Roberto Santos
    Stratified Policing seeks to facilitate organizational change for crime reduction by providing a clear and adaptable structure for analysis, problem solving, and accountability. This book outlines the theoretical and practical foundations for police departments to tailor and implement it into their operational crime reduction efforts. ...
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    47,65 €

  • Gangsters and Other Statesmen
    Danilo Mandić
    How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatis...
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    163,49 €

  • Gangsters and Other Statesmen
    Danilo Mandić
    How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatis...
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    45,87 €

  • Policing and Public Trust
    Eccy de Jonge
    Victims and complainants are routinely discredited by policing agencies around the globe. Examining stories of people who have been targeted by police, Dr. Eccy de Jonge reveals how the inner workings of this public institution are failing those who rely upon it the most. ...
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    129,13 €

  • Love as human virtue and human need and its role in the lives of long-term prisoners
    Christina Valeska Straub
    While the importance of love is rarely questioned, the effects of its presence and absence in certain environments often goes unnoticed. This book analyses the role of love in the lives of prisoners in a low security English prison. It seeks to provide a deeper insight into the meaning and role of love as a dual concept in the social-ecology of human existence, human developmen...
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    82,88 €

  • The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation on a previously overlooked demographic, this book argues that women are disproportionately affected by a flawed policy approach. ...
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    45,41 €


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