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Crime & criminology
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, B&W Photos: 18,. BIC Classification: JKSN; JKVQ; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143110
- ISBN
- 9780231143110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.48
€ 26.99
€ 20.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, B&W Photos: 18,. BIC Classification: JKSN; JKVQ; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231143103
- ISBN
- 9780231143103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Hardback. One of social work's most distinguished theoreticians speculates about the factors that leads to crime and considers what we can do to prevent and respond to it meaningfully. The book is based on more than thirteen thousand cases in which Frederic G. Reamer has been involved as a parole board member. Reamer uses actual case studies to illustrate these patterns of "criminal circumstances." Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129305
- ISBN
- 9780231129305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.68€ 101.83
€ 133.68
€ 101.83
Hardback. Many urban residents, especially persons of colour, are or have been involved in the juvenile and/or criminal justice system. This volume discusses correctional supervision and the needs of individuals. It aims to address the strengths of individuals and how can they can be capitalized on. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JKSN; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231120401
- ISBN
- 9780231120401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.30€ 90.18
€ 118.30
€ 90.18
Hardback. Why do Americans know so much about "celebrity criminals" and so little about crime? If crime is down, why is there so much mayhem on television news and in the newspapers? This book seeks to answer these and other questions, to attempt to make sense of crime, crime news and crime policy in the US. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JKV; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102926
- ISBN
- 9780231102926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.84€ 83.22
€ 108.84
€ 83.22
Paperback. Offering a rare glimpse of an elite Southern Californian community of drug dealers, this volume traces the lives of the author's key informants over a 15-year span as they entered, ascended and then quit the drug world. This revised edition reveals the current fate of several of the informants. Num Pages: 220 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231081337
- ISBN
- 9780231081337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.01
€ 42.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Analyzes the justice system's response to sexual misconduct by children and adolescents in the United States. This book discusses our society's failure to consider the developmental status of adolescent sex offenders. Series: Adolescent Development and Legal Policy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226983585
- ISBN
- 9780226983585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.41
€ 32.99
€ 25.41
Paperback. Series: Studies in Crime & Justice. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226905587
- ISBN
- 9780226905587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.37
€ 47.99
€ 37.37
Paperback. Series: Studies in Crime & Justice. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; JKV; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226851747
- ISBN
- 9780226851747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.84
€ 32.99
€ 25.84
Hardback. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226808680
- ISBN
- 9780226808680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.60€ 47.77
€ 55.60
€ 47.77
Paperback. Delves into the world of medical examiners to uncover the intricate web of social, legal, and moral issues in which they operate. This work reveals how medical examiners speak to the living on behalf of the dead. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JKVF1; MMQ; PDZ; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226803999
- ISBN
- 9780226803999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.25
€ 24.99
€ 20.25
Paperback. Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. This title addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of kidnappings on investment, mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime. Editor(s): Tella, Rafael Di; Edwards, Sebastian; Schargrodsky, Ernesto. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Num Pages: 536 pages, 95 figures, 106 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKV; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226791852
- ISBN
- 9780226791852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.37€ 82.90
€ 99.37
€ 82.90
Paperback. Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city's highest-crime areas, this work demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 halftones, 5 maps, 3 line drawings, 5 tables. BIC Classification: JFSG; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226774992
- ISBN
- 9780226774992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.53
€ 42.99
€ 33.53
Hardback. Denies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226766096
- ISBN
- 9780226766096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 79.10
€ 94.64
€ 79.10
Paperback. Reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. The author uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works. Series: Studies in Crime & Justice. Num Pages: 296 pages, 19 tables, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVP; JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226758572
- ISBN
- 9780226758572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
€ 31.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; JFCA; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Paperback edition 2006
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226738697
- ISBN
- 9780226738697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.84
€ 34.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell. Num Pages: 200 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; JFC; JFD; JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226732183
- ISBN
- 9780226732183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.87
€ 35.99
€ 28.87
Paperback. By analyzing the trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated US President Garfield in 1881, this text explores insanity and criminal responsibility in the late-19th century. Although the role of genetics in behaviour had been accepted, the trial debated whether heredity influenced Guiteau's actions. Num Pages: 290 pages, 6 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JKVC; JMAL; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226727172
- ISBN
- 9780226727172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.50
€ 40.99
€ 31.50
Paperback. Race is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship, this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts. Num Pages: 216 pages, 16 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JKVG; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226684628
- ISBN
- 9780226684628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
Paperback. Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be misleading. The text considers that although it is important to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and crime also pose serious dangers. Num Pages: 378 pages, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFC; JKV; RGV; RNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226534190
- ISBN
- 9780226534190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 34.59
€ 44.99
€ 34.59