This book presents current research in the study of basic human rights, with a particular focus on the crimes against human rights and the laws whi...

The first part of the book is entitled 'Family, Transition and Ageing' and addresses rapid social and economic changes in China through a kaleidosc...

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wo...

Although the 9-1-1 system has been an unqualified success story for more than 30 years, changes in the public's use of technology, the saturation o...

Girls' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become i...

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.

This book studies the causes and consequences of organised crime drawing on research from around the world including the countries of Colombia, Chi...

Organised crime has taken on an increasingly transnational nature, and with more open borders and the expansion of the Internet, criminals endanger...

This book presents and discusses information in the study of organised crime, gangs and trafficking on a global scale. Topics discussed include org...

Organised retail crime (ORC), also known as organised retail theft, typically refers to large-scale retail theft and fraud by organised groups of p...

Organized retail crime (ORC) involves the large-scale theft of everyday consumer items and potentially has much broader implications. Organized gro...

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in children born out of wedlock. Such a situation is of great concern because the poorest demographic gr...

Trafficking in persons, or human trafficking, refers to the subjection of men, women, and children to exploitative conditions that can be tantamoun...

The work presented here has the ambitious objective to analyse a highly topical issue not in the usual terms of finding an immediate answer to pres...

Administering justice to juvenile offenders has largely been the domain of the states, and as a result of this the laws that pertain to juvenile of...

Philanthropy is a general term used to describe actions taken by individuals and organizations to benefit social units and universal causes. In pra...

In the past decades the role of the State has undergone major alterations regarding supply of goods and services in general, particularly housing s...

This book provides new research on police. Chapter One examines if newspaper reporting of crime in a given jurisdiction affects the levels of racia...

We live in a rapidly changing society that is driven by higher and higher levels of technological advancement. New technologies are creating greate...

A veteran police officer gives his thoughtful, balanced views on police shootings, racial profiling, community relations, and every other aspect of...

The Problem-Specific Guides series summarise knowledge about how police can reduce the harm caused by specific crime and disorder problems. They ar...