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There is currently a paradigm shift in criminology towards a cross-disciplinary understanding of behavior. Highlighting this trend, Police and Profiling in the US: Applying Theory to Criminal Investigations combines the experience of a criminal investigator and educator to provide law...
To Be Published July 23rd 2013 by CRC Press
Series: Crime Science Series
The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purposes of crime control and prevention. More than twenty-five years later, Cognition and Crime pushes the boundaries of this field of research by bringing...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health
Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists. It outlines a number of legislative regimes in...
To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up...
To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Crime Science Series
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral...
To Be Published November 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
This volume focuses on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system. The contributors report results from several large scale and...
To Be Published December 10th 2013 by Routledge
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The text is divided into five parts, the first three addressing ideal type models of criminal behaviour the rational actor...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Willan
Forensic detection methods have become increasingly important within the contemporary criminal justice system. Today, a large number of individuals and organisations make use of forensic techniques to solve a broad range of criminal justice problems. Whilst there are a plethora of text books on...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigations
Now in its second edition, this volume takes a scholarly approach to an often misunderstood and controversial law enforcement investigative technique that traditionally has been shrouded in secrecy. Written by a former Miami vice and narcotics detective, DEA agent, and attorney, this authoritative...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by CRC Press
Drawing heavily on original research designed to train police officers to survive deadly encounters, this book identifies the commonalities and differences between groups of offenders by age, examining the previously hidden connections between an offender’s lethal choices, criminal history, drug...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by CRC Press
