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Book Crime Unlimited

Download or read book Crime Unlimited written by Pat Carlen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century comprises nine chapters contexualising crime and social control within debates about modernism, globalism, risk, and technological innovation. It includes discussion of contemporary issues such as steroid use, gun control, privatised policing and youth scares involving alcopops and drugs. It also re-examines recurring issues about policing and punishment. The authors include: Rebecca and Russell Dobash, Chris Hale, Dick Hobbs, Ian Loader, Tim Newburn, Howard Parker, Richard Sparks, and Ian Taylor.

Book Crime Unlimited

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Victor Turner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Crime Unlimited written by John Victor Turner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spider  Crime Unlimited

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : 2000 AD
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN : 9781786184658
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Spider Crime Unlimited written by and published by 2000 AD. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spider is the uncrowned king of the New York underworld, so elusive to the police that he even manages to taunt the Police Commissioner at his retirement party. But Professor Aldo Cummings, a famous but ill-tempered scientist, determined to stop the schemes of the Spider once and for all, invents a ray-machine which will eliminate the evil from a person's personality. But a tragic miscalculation will turn Professor Cummings into the Professor of Power, and he will seek a more direct confrontation with the Spider. The first collection of the Spider stories originally published as part of the Picture Library series, these long-lost and fast-paced pulp adventure stories have never been reprinted before, written by Jerry Siegel and Donne Avenell.

Book Crime Control as Industry

Download or read book Crime Control as Industry written by Nils Christie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christie argues that crime control, rather than crime itself, is the real danger for our future. He documents the forces driving the prison industry in Europe and the United States, offering an explanation of increased incarceration rates in the 1980s and 1990s. The growing use of prisons has paralleled two important social changes, both with a potential for unrest : the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, and restriction of access to well-paid work. Instead of attempting to deal with these problems through positive social changes, developed countries have called on the crime control industry to deal with the consequences. The desire for security, stability, and predictability among the more affluent elements of society has fuelled the willingness of politicians and policymakers to make huge investments in the crime control industry, particularly its most costly feature, prisons and jails. The book shows how trends in the use of imprisonment have risen and fallen over time, and it traces this to underlying societal values as to what is right and fair in the treatment of other human beings. It is finally such values that will determine the limits societies will choose to impose on the crime control industry. Thoughts, values, and ethics, not the drive for profit, must ultimately determine the limits of control.

Book Pan African Issues in Crime and Justice

Download or read book Pan African Issues in Crime and Justice written by Biko Agozino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminology assumes the position of an established discipline, yet its influence is limited by its primary focus on the West for both theoretical and empirical substance. But the growing interest in comparative criminology now means that countries compare notes, thereby broadening the parameters of criminology. Still relatively ignored in the literature, however, are issues of crime and justice as they affect people of African descent around the globe. Drawing upon materials from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe, this stimulating book reflects on the experiences of people of African descent to offer a convergence of criminologies in and outside the West. Simultaneously, it acknowledges Western criminology as a significant angle from which to comprehend crime and justice as they are conceptualized outside the West. The volume also investigates whether Western criminological accounts are relevant to the comprehension of crime, criminality and systems of justice in Africa, the Caribbean and South America.

Book Crime Unlimited

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  • Author : Pat Carlen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Crime Unlimited written by Pat Carlen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime Unlimited

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  • Author : John Victor Turner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Crime Unlimited written by John Victor Turner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murder and Mayhem

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  • Author : David Nash
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-04-25
  • ISBN : 1350307823
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Murder and Mayhem written by David Nash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday reveal the evolution of attitudes towards criminality and the law over the course of the twentieth century. Highlighting important periods of change and development that have shaped the overall history of crime in Britain, the authors provide in-depth analysis and explanation of each theme. This is an ideal companion for undergraduate students taking courses on Crime in Britain, as well as a fascinating resource for scholars.

Book Lacey  Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law

Download or read book Lacey Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law written by Celia Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This truly groundbreaking textbook explores traditional and broader fields of criminal law and justice to give a full perspective on the subject.

Book Student Handbook of Criminal Justice and Criminology

Download or read book Student Handbook of Criminal Justice and Criminology written by John Muncie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by some of the leading criminologists in the country, this new title is a 'one-stop shop' for those who teach, study or are interested in criminology and the criminal justice systems of the UK.

Book Policing  Popular Culture and Political Economy

Download or read book Policing Popular Culture and Political Economy written by Robert Reiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Reiner has been one of the pioneers in the development of research on policing since the 1970s as well as a prolific writer on mass media and popular culture representations of crime and criminal justice. His work includes the renowned books The Politics of the Police and Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control, an analysis of the neo-liberal transformation of crime and criminal justice in recent decades. This volume brings together many of Reiner's most important essays on the police written over the last four decades as well as selected essays on mass media and on the neo-liberal transformation of crime and criminal justice. All the work included in this important volume is underpinned by a framework of analysis in terms of political economy and a commitment to the ethics and politics of social democracy

Book Below the Clock  Detective Club Crime Classics

Download or read book Below the Clock Detective Club Crime Classics written by J. V. Turner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Golden Age detective novel set at the heart of Westminster, when the murder of the Chancellor of the Exchequer threatens to topple the whole House of Cards...

Book Hammer Complete

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  • Author : Howard Maxford
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2019-11-08
  • ISBN : 1476629145
  • Pages : 993 pages

Download or read book Hammer Complete written by Howard Maxford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled "Studio that Dripped Blood?" The lowdown on all the imperishable classics of horror, like The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out? What about the company's less blood-curdling back catalog? What about the musicals, comedies and travelogues, the fantasies and historical epics--not to mention the pirate adventures? This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia covers every Hammer film and television production in thorough detail, including budgets, shooting schedules, publicity and more, along with all the actors, supporting players, writers, directors, producers, composers and technicians. Packed with quotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, credit lists and production specifics, this all-inclusive reference work is the last word on this cherished cinematic institution.

Book The Innocent Man

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  • Author : John Grisham
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2010-03-16
  • ISBN : 0307576019
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book The Innocent Man written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone terribly awry. In the Major League draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the state of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution’s case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you. Don’t miss Framed, John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, co-authored with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey.

Book Women and Punishment

Download or read book Women and Punishment written by Pat Carlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems. In response there has been an overarching policy concern in many countries to fashion and co-ordinate gender-specific policies towards female offenders which aim both to slow down the rate of their offending and/or imprisonment, and also to engender flexible programmes which will reduce the time spent in custody and/or away from their young children. The major objective of this book is to describe and analyse contemporary opportunities for, and barriers to, both the reduction of female prison populations and the reduction of the pain of those women who continue to be imprisoned. It assesses the most important recent attempts to reduce both women's imprisonment and the damage it does, identifying and analyzing cross-jurisdiction and gender-specific lessons to be learned, and the unexpected consequences of some of the reform strategies. This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners in the field, providing a critique of the reform initiatives which have taken place, and a much-needed theorization of cross-national policy in this area. It will be essential reading for all with an interest in prisons and prison reform.

Book The Crime Numbers Game

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Eterno
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2017-07-27
  • ISBN : 1466551704
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book The Crime Numbers Game written by John A. Eterno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited with a dramatic reduction in crime, questions quic

Book Dictionary of Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Hodgson Collin
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781579581558
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Dictionary of Law written by Peter Hodgson Collin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.