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  • Sex Crimes
    Alice Vachss
    'NOBODY KNOWS RAPISTS BETTER'  After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to 'go along to get along,' Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as 'a stark, passionate closing argument in [her] broader case against the criminal justice system' by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year. Nick (Goodfellas...
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    11,59 €

  • Cybercrime and Cloud Forensics
    Keyun Ruan
    While cloud computing continues to transform developments in information technology services, these advancements have contributed to a rise in cyber attacks; producing an urgent need to extend the applications of investigation processes. Cybercrime and Cloud Forensics: Applications for Investigation Processes presents a collection of research and case studies of applications fo...
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    256,07 €

  • Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime
    In an age when computer crime is growing at a exponential rate and on a global scale, industry and government leaders are increasingly reliant upon answers from the academic and IT Security fields in order to keep cyber crime in check, and be ahead of the 'cyber criminal curve.' Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications addresses various as...
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    236,22 €

  • Speaking Out
    Alan Berman / Berman Alan / Shirleene Robinson
    Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book gives voice to the many victims who have suffered in the state once recognised as Australia’s most homophobic. It tells of the barriers people face in dealing with the legal system, the reasons why some do not report...
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    41,71 €

  • LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
    Maurice Hicks
    Leading an FBI Homicide Task Force and having run-ins with drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert. But, as luck would have it, Maurice was that guy. Maurice spent his entire life trying to avoid trouble. Yet, ironically, Maurice was confronted with the most dangerous and horrific close encounters imaginable while ...
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    22,52 €

  • LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
    Maurice Hicks
    Leading an FBI Homicide Task Force and having run-ins with drug kingpins, murderers, and serial rapists would be the last thing you would expect from an introvert. But, as luck would have it, Maurice was that guy. Maurice spent his entire life trying to avoid trouble. Yet, ironically, Maurice was confronted with the most dangerous and horrific close encounters imaginable while ...
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    34,68 €

  • Tolerating State Violence
    Elizabeth Stanley
    Using contemporary case examples from three liberal democracies - Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom- this book questions: how do state institutions create the conditions for the tolerance of state violence and harms? And, from this knowledge, how might we make the violence and harms intolerable? ...
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    73,29 €

  • Fundamentals of Forensic Victimology
    This edited volume delves into the multifaceted field of victimology, exploring its historical roots, theoretical frameworks, and contemporary applications. It navigates through various forms of victimization, from intimate violence to stranger violence, shedding light on their prevalence and underlying causes. With a focus on psychological aspects and victim profiling, it equi...
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    169,04 €

  • Dreaming of a Better Life
    Yusy Widarahesty
    This book delves into a developing area of Japan’s labor migration studies, providing comprehensive insights to unveil the complexity of Japan’s Technical Intern Trainee Program (TITP), not only from the perspective of the receiving country but particularly from that of the sending country. In doing so, the book focuses on Indonesia’s participation in the TITP.With this, the bo...
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    166,94 €

  • School Shootings in American Culture
    Lisa Ross
    Explores the psychosocial causes of school shootings as a cultural trend and society’s strategies to maintain order in their aftermath.The tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown that our national strategy to end school shootings is failing. School Shootings in American Culture uniquely applies systems-thinking to school shootings as a cultural trend. Auth...
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    154,59 €

  • Yang Xinhai
    Johann Bachmann
    Between 1999 and 2003, a wave of terror swept through rural China. Villages that had known only quiet isolation were shattered by the brutal crimes of one man - Yang Xinhai, the 'Monster Killer.' Moving silently through Henan, Shandong, and Anhui provinces, he slaughtered entire families, leaving behind no witnesses and almost no trace. For years, his reign of violence went unn...
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    27,73 €

  • Crime Without Borders
    Aaron Fichtelberg / Kai Lin / Nicole Fox
    This book introduces students to the challenges related to international crime and punishment, and the ways that criminal justice systems have sought to confront them. ...
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    74,85 €

  • Crime Without Borders
    Aaron Fichtelberg / Kai Lin / Nicole Fox
    This book introduces students to the challenges related to international crime and punishment, and the ways that criminal justice systems have sought to confront them. ...
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    257,98 €

  • Hauntology
    Alex Simpson / Paul McGuinness / Tea Fredriksson
    In response to the recent ’spectral turn’ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable, and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students. ...
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    73,55 €

  • Hauntology
    Alex Simpson / Paul McGuinness / Tea Fredriksson
    In response to the recent ’spectral turn’ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable, and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students. ...
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    254,81 €

  • Caged Histories
    Andriani Fili
    Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and personal experience as an NGO practitioner, this book offers an exploration of Greece’s immigration detention system, exposing how detention has been used as a tool for border control, racial exclusion, and social punishment. ...
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    256,54 €

  • The Security Field
    Matt Bowden
    This book draws on new thinking in the social sciences on questions of crime, fear and security and contributes to the expanding interest on the sociology and criminology of security by offering a Bourdieusian approach to plural policing and the everyday political economy of security. ...
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    76,13 €

  • Ethics in Qualitative Criminological Research
    Mohammed Rahman / Ross Deuchar
    Providing academic insights, reflections, and practical guidance on ethically conducting qualitative criminological research, this book emphasizes real-life examples to navigate research risks, boundaries, and emotions while spotlighting reflexivity as a pivotal tool for qualitative inquiries. ...
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    38,70 €

  • Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending
    Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration. ...
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    76,02 €

  • Neoliberalism and Punishment
    Ignacio González-Sánchez
    Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first forty years of democracy, this book puts forward the importance of studying punishment from a sociological perspective and examines the neoliberal penalty thesis. ...
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    76,27 €

  • The American City in Crime Films
    Andrew J. Baranauskas
    Analysing crime movies set in Detroit, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas, and Gotham City, this book examines the role that American cities play as characters in crime films. ...
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    76,39 €

  • Scams, Cons, Frauds, and Deceptions
    This unique volume presents cutting-edge research on the nature and extent of a wide range of scams, cons, frauds, and deceptive activities, including sextortion, the use of ransomware, phishing, identity theft, Ponzi schemes, online shopping fraud, gift card scams, and health care fraud targeting elderly victims. ...
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    77,39 €

  • The Protective Intelligence Advantage
    Fred Burton / Scott Stewart
    The world reacted in horror to the graphic security camera footage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson being gunned down on a Manhattan sidewalk as he was on his way to attend a scheduled investor conference. Since this murder has already spawned copycat attacks, this book is especially needed at this moment in time. ...
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    62,99 €

  • Youth Desistance in Transition
    Christopher Kay
    This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to be seen in the available desistance literature. ...
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    254,60 €

  • Causation in Criminal Law
    This collection presents a leading contribution in the substantive arena relating to Causation in Criminal Law. The volume addresses three specific elements within this arena, embracing an overarching synergy between them. ...
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    267,82 €

  • A Máscara Da Mente
    Samantha Laurentyno
    Existe uma face oculta na mente humana, fria calculista e sedutora; capaz de manipular com encanto e destruir com lógica. Por trás de sorrisos controlados e gestos estudados, esconde-se um vazio emocional onde a empatia não nasce e a culpa não existe. Em A Máscara da Mente - Por trás da Psicopatia: o charme, a manipulação e o vazio da empatia, a psicóloga e neurocientista Saman...
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    54,60 €

  • O Legado Do Cangaço
    Heluízo Fagundes De Lima
    O Legado do Cangaço é uma narrativa de ficção baseada em fatos reais. Tudo começa com um violento conflito entre policiais e cangaceiros no período mais turbulento da era do cangaço.Neste conflito, Regina, que nasceu predestinada para conhecer a vitória e o fracasso, enfrenta o medo da morte. Recebe instruções para sair da área do conflito, amparada pelo namorado. Entre o medo ...
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    10,35 €

  • A Herança De Nero
    Fabio Camatari
    Um mafioso morto, um cão silencioso e uma verdade enterrada sob séculos de silêncio.Na Sicília, a estudante Chiara Bellini descobre que a história da ilha é feita de relíquias, pactos e memórias que não podem ser compradas. Com a ajuda de um policial brasileiro e um ourives marcado pelo passado, ela segue os rastros de Nero — o cão que guarda o segredo final.A Herança de Nero é...
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    11,96 €

  • O Assassino Das Noivas
    Sérgio Fragoso
    Estamos em Nova Iorque, a cidade onde tudo acontece! Uma mulher vestida em trajes nada comuns é encontrada morta no Central Park. Scott, o detetive responsável pelo caso, sabe que esse não é um crime comum, pois a maneira em que o cadáver foi deixado leva o investigador a acreditar que existe um psicopata em ação. E agora, detetive Scott? Vai juntar as pistas a tempo de encontr...
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    24,44 €

  • Femicide in Latin America
    Isabelle Vladoiu
    Femicide in Latin America: A Growing Threat to Women’s Security explores the rising rates of femicide across sixteen Central and South American countries as a critical issue of national stability and regional security. It essential reading researchers and policymakers in human rights, security studies, and international law. ...
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    92,78 €