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Justice Reinvestment: Winding Back Imprisonment (Palgrave Studies in P...
Brown, David, Cunneen, Chris, Schwartz, Melan...
Hardcover. This book examines justice reinvestment from its origins, its potential as a mechanism for winding back imprisonment rates, and its portability to Australia, the United Kingdom and beyond. It argues for a community-driven approach, originating in vulnerable Indigenous communities with high imprisonment rates. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVP; LAQ; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137449108
- ISBN
- 9781137449108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.09
€ 139.09
Paperback. This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies, revealing the mounting death tolls arising at illegal borders in Europe, Australia and North America. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white tables, 5 figures, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFFS; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453150
- ISBN
- 9781137453150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Hardcover. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of sexual homicide. It includes a thorough survey of offender classifications, and analyses current theoretical explanations and understandings of sexual homicide from a criminological perspective. It proposes an important new integrated theoretical understanding of sexual homicide offenders. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JKV; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453716
- ISBN
- 9781137453716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.22
€ 127.22
Hardback. This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experience of academics and professionals who constructively explore ways to integrate research evidence and practitioner knowledge into current and future initiatives. Editor(s): Winstone, Jane. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; JKVQ; LNFB; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453860
- ISBN
- 9781137453860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.93
€ 139.93
Hardcover. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are increasingly seen as a threat to communities around the world. They are a visible threat as a recognizable symbol of deviance and violence. This book uses gang and organized crime theory to explain the groups and looks at policing and political responses to the clubs' activities. Num Pages: 122 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSV; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456281
- ISBN
- 9781137456281
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardcover. This book analyses the life histories of Jamaican men involved in the UK drugs trade, including wholesalers, street dealers, specialist cooks, cutters, and growers. Employing a life history approach, their autobiographical accounts are examined to provide an in-depth and unique insight of their journeys into drugs and crime. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KJWJ; JFFH1; JFSJ2; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456649
- ISBN
- 9781137456649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. Safety and Security in Transit Environments presents interdisciplinary studies from leading international authors. This important volume identifies key challenges and complexities in addressing security and safety concerns in transit settings, policy recommendations for prevention, and new frontiers for research at transit settings. Editor(s): Ceccato, Vania; Newton, Andrew; Robinson, E. A. G. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 418 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; KNG; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457646
- ISBN
- 9781137457646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.21
€ 162.21
Hardback. With the recent media interest in celebrity childhood sexual abuse and rape cases, we think we know what sexual violence is and who 'rape victims' are. But this portrayal is limited. Drawing on in-depth accounts from women who have experienced rape, this book revisits issues of credibility, responsibility and feminism to provide missing details. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFFK; JHBK5; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 141
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461711
- ISBN
- 9781137461711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.66
€ 71.66
Hardcover. This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners. It questions whether diversity in implementation implies policy failure or a sign of healthy activism among local practitioners.lied by practitioners. Editor(s): Wasik, Martin; Santatzoglou, Sotirios. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462480
- ISBN
- 9781137462480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.07
€ 128.07
Hardcover. This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal efficiencies or provide investment opportunities to the commercial sector. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HPQ; JHBA; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468451
- ISBN
- 9781137468451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardback. Series: Disaster Studies. Num Pages: 185 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JKV; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469137
- ISBN
- 9781137469137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77
Hardcover. Policing Integration critically examines coordination work between police officers and agencies. It presents important theoretical principles and empirical evidence drawn from extensive fieldwork in a multi-jurisdictional environment, revealing how and why police choose to work across boundaries or create barriers between one another. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JKSW1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473745
- ISBN
- 9781137473745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.63
€ 138.63
Hardcover. Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity and More-than-human Agency provides a unique account of environmentalism - one that highlights the voices of activists and the nature they defend. It will be of interest to both students and academics in green criminology, environmental sociology and nature-human studies more broadly. Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JKV; RNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473776
- ISBN
- 9781137473776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardback. This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The contributors show how Eastern and Western nations are responding to the challenges of cybercrime, and the latest trends and issues in cybercrime prevention and control. Editor(s): Smith, Russell G.; Chak-Chung Cheung, Ray; Yiu-Chung Lau, Laurie. Series: Palgrave Macmillan's Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFMG; JKV; PDR; UR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474155
- ISBN
- 9781137474155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardback. Giving the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics, this book deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with 'real histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going 'inside the anti-trafficking field. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 178 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSP1; JKV; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478177
- ISBN
- 9781137478177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.99
€ 182.99
Defining Crime: A Critique of the Concept and Its Implication
Lynch, Michael J., Stretesky, Paul B., Long, ...
Hardcover. Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479341
- ISBN
- 9781137479341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482235
- ISBN
- 9781137482235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVM; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490285
- ISBN
- 9781137490285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.98
€ 82.98
Hardcover. This book explores the relationship between the Irish police and ethnic minorities, made particularly pressing by the rapid ethnic diversification of Irish society. It addresses the current deficit in knowledge of this area by exploring how Irish police officers conceive of, talk about, and interact with Ireland's immigrant minority communities. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFSL; JKSW1; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 277 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490445
- ISBN
- 9781137490445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Hardcover. As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly central to policy development. This book explores whether policy transfer in 'everyday' policy-making may be unintentionally creating a system of preventive justice. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11. BIC Classification: JKVC; LNFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495013
- ISBN
- 9781137495013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.89
€ 149.89