Author: Jonathan Simo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: crime, culture, studies, policy, created, public, democracy, war, transformed, american, governing
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2009-05-08
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0195386019
ISBN-13: 9780195386011
Across America today, gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominated
Author: Jonathan Simon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: crime, culture, studies, policy, created, public, democracy, war, transformed, american, governing
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-02-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0195181085
ISBN-13: 9780195181081
Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominate
Authors:Lauren Krivo, John Hagan, Ruth Peterson,
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: crime, perspectives, deviance, law, new, ethnicity, inequalities, race, colors, america
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0814767206
ISBN-13: 9780814767207
In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the perception of crime and those who are criminalized, the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances, the responses to laws and crime that make some more likely to be defined as criminal, and the ways that individuals and communities are positioned and empowered to respo
Author: Peter Manning
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: crime, technology, perspectives, deviance, new, law, rationality, policing, mapping, information, control
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0814757243
ISBN-13: 9780814757246
With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic regions, has become a regular and relied-upon feature of policing. Many claim that these technological developments played a role in the crime drop of the 1990s, and yet no study of these techniques and their relationship to everyday police work has been made available.Noted scholar Peter K. Manning s
Authors:Clive Emsley, Louis A. Knafla,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: crime, history, contributions, penology, modern, criminology, criminal, histories, studies, historiography, justice
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1996-02-28
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0313287228
ISBN-13: 9780313287220
When is a crime a crime--or an act condoned by a significant portion of society? When is a criminal a criminal--or a revolutionary or a national hero? As the chapters in this collection make clear, what constitutes criminal activity varies, to a degree, among different societies and at different moments in a society’s history. In this wide-ranging work, major historians of criminology and penology examine aspects of crime and criminal justice from medieval Western Europe to modern day Canada.
Author: Office for Drug Control & Crime Prevention
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: crime, odccp, studies, drugs, amp, guidelines, experience, development, andean, area, undcp, alternative
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2003-03
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 9211481430
ISBN-13: 9789211481433
Author: David S. Wall
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: crime, society, information, cybercrime, transformation
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-09-21
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0745627366
ISBN-13: 9780745627366
How has the internet transformed criminal behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What new criminal opportunities have arisen? What impact might cybercrime have on public security? In this exciting new text, David Wall carefully examines these and other important issues. He discusses what is known about cybercrime, disentangling the rhetoric of risk assessment from its reality. Looking at the full range of cybercrime, he shows how the increase in personal computing power available within a globalized communications network has affected the nat
