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This book examines 50 capital crimes committed in Great Britain in the twentieth century in which the accused was found guilty and either executed or sentenced to life imprisonment. The essays explain why there was reasonable doubt as to either the guilt or sanity of the accused but also present the prosecution's perspective.

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A startling look at how breakthroughs in DNA testing are having a tumultuous impact on criminal investigations

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Bernard O'Mahoney was a key member of the Essex Boys firm - one of the most violent criminal gangs in Britain.

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This is an original and scholarly study of the role of books and libraries in British prisons during the period of penal reforms between 1700 and 1911.

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Despite the popular perception that genetic explanations of the causes of crime are new, biological determinism dates back to the birth of criminology, and the ideas of the man widely regarded as its founder, Cesare Lombroso.

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Here, Myers examines the demographic, legal, criminal, and social characteristics of those youth who are waived to adult courts, assessing the nature, use, and effectiveness of punishment and rehabilitation efforts in modern juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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People pay immigration officers not to ask, customs officials not to inspect, and police officers not to investigate. People pay immigration officers not to ask, customs officials not to inspect, and police officers not to investigate.

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Both sides of the capital punishment debate in the United States are examined in this collection of 112 key documents, arranged by historical period. The political and social aspects of the debate are represented through a range of documents.

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This revised edition of a perennial bestseller, with more than 50 percent new material, is a much-needed overview of a hotly debated topic.

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The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities and reworks conceptions of democracy, rig

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The cause and causation of crime, covered from the time of Benjamin Rush, one of the most eminent of early American physicians, to Williams Healy; from the last decade of the eighteenth to the second decade of the twentieth century. The material is presented from biological, anthropological, and psychological perspectives.

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This book questions whether one of the tasks of criminal theory is to set goals and identify deficiencies in order to improve rules and procedures.

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While the book emphasizes the usefulness of the conceptual tools of chaos theory in critical criminology and law, its ultimate goal goes beyond theory-building to provide vistas for understanding the contemporary social scene and for the development of the new just society.

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While the book emphasizes the usefulness of the conceptual tools of chaos theory in critical criminology and law, its ultimate goal goes beyond theory-building to provide vistas for understanding the contemporary social scene and for the development of the new just society.

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Offers insight into child abductions, what can be done to prevent them, and how to solve them once they occur. This book details the scope of the child abduction problem in the United States, and its real danger. It covers the different types of abductions and discusses the psychological changes that can occur in long-term abducted children.

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Why are more young law breakers imprisoned in Russia and the UK than in any other European country This book explores the treatment of young offenders in these two very different states and the political and institutional context of their distinctively punitive approach.

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The President's Commission on Organized Crime predicted that Asian crime groups would be the United States' foremost organized crime problem by the 1990s.

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is an introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book explores how power and privilege shape our understanding of crime and justice. The fifth edition features new material on police violence and Black Lives Matter, disability, and more.

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Classifying Reactions to Wrongdoing provides three comprehensive taxonomies for categorizing (1) crimes, sins, breaches of custom, and other misdeeds, (2) sanctions and treatments which people recommend perpetrators of misdeeds should experience, and (3) the aims of such sanctions and treatments.

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Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

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The study shows how that one neighborhood is fighting crime through a community education (comprehensive) approach.

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Reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While aware of the strengths of community service programmes to the development of schools and society, the author believes that behind these good intentions, there is a certain ambivalence.