Crime Control Books

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31. Strategic Responses to Crime

    Thinking Locally, Acting Globally

    Edited by Melchor de Guzman, Aiedeo Mintie Das, Dilip K. Das

    Every year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and share ideas about effective strategies in their jurisdictions. Drawn from the proceedings at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting held in Turkey and updated...

    Published October 16th 2011 by CRC Press
32. Probation

    Working With Offenders

    By Rob Canton

    Series: Criminal Justice Series

    This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of the probation service. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help students and practitioners to better understand the work of probation, its limitations as well as potential, but above all its value....

    Published August 15th 2011 by Willan
33. The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders

    A Comparative Study

    By Terry Thomas

    This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers, their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world. Sex offender registers are not really registers at all but a set of ‘legal requirements’ that fall automatically on a person convicted or cautioned...

    Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
34. Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis

    By Patrick Walsh

    This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments. Developments are explored thematically across three broad...

    Published May 31st 2011 by Willan
35. Police Work

    Principles and Practice

    By Colin Rogers, Rhobert Lewis, Tim John, Tim Read

    This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society. Police Work: Principles and Practice meets the need for an...

    Published May 23rd 2011 by Willan
36. Policing and Human Rights

    The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg

    By Julia Hornberger

    Series: Law, Development and Globalization

    Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how...

    Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
37. Professionalizing Offender Profiling

    Forensic and Investigative Psychology in Practice

    Edited by Laurence Alison, Lee Rainbow

    Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender...

    Published April 17th 2011 by Routledge
38. Corrections

    A Critical Approach, 3rd Edition

    By Michael Welch

    Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans,...

    Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
39. Effective Crime Reduction Strategies

    International Perspectives

    Edited by James F. Albrecht, Dilip K. Das

    The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES, www.ipes.info) coordinates annual international conferences to evaluate critical issues in policing and recommend practical solutions to law enforcement executives deployed across the globe. Drawn from the 2005 proceedings hosted by the Czech...

    Published February 21st 2011 by CRC Press
40. Youth in Crisis?

    'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence

    Edited by Barry Goldson

    Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term 'gang' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban...

    Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge