Tourism and crime: key themes
Crimes of globalization
by Rothe, Dawn, Friedrichs, David O.
fromNew directions in critical criminology
"Although much of the literature on crime and justice in international society has addressed the impact of globalization and the challenge of addressing crimes that are in violation of international law, less attention has been paid to crimes that are specifically a product of e…
Based on a 16-year longitudinal study of crime in Seattle, Washington.
The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place, David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new and different way of looking at the crim…
Details the brutal 1965 torture slaying of Sylvia Likens and the abuse to which the victim had been subjected by Gertrude Baniszewski, the woman with whom she had been staying, as well as some of Gertrude's children and neighbors.
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field resear…
This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprising a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, this book tackles a wide range of issues i…
This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprising a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, this book tackles a wide range of issues i…
In the first book to expose the role played by the international financial services industry in facilitating crime and laundering criminal property, one of the world's leading anti-financial crime specialists scrutinises the vulnerability of banks, brokerages, trust companies, a…