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Financial crime is an important and topical area. Concerns over money laundering have grown considerably since links with terrorist organisations have become more apparent in recent years. This new bo...

Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research to Practice provides a series of key examples from practice and research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and its effect in many areas of polici...

The first pieces of evidence viewed by jurors are oftentimes the photographs recorded by the crime scene investigator. Professional and accurate photographic documentation is critical for creating las...

Why do people stop offending? What are the processes they undergo in stopping? What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them? The growth of interest in why people ...

This collection of three stories includes "A Case of Lone Star", "Greenwich Killing Time", and "When the Cat's Away". All of the stories feature the same wise-cracking, cigar-smoking, cat-loving reluc...

Crime School

This is an introductory text which defines the field and sets out the parameters of state crime in all its forms: state violence, corruption, transnational crime, state involvement in corporate crime,...

This compilation explores the famous and lesser-known crimes of the 20th century. Find out what real criminals and detectives are like, how crimes are committed and solved, and the thought processes o...

The movement toward miniaturized and mobile computing has created more opportunity for cyber thieves. To respond effectively, IT security professionals need a resource that combines the understanding ...

This volume brings together research principles with the practical issues of carrying out research to provide a clear and fascinating guide to the reality of contemporary criminological research. The ...

Following on the success of his introductory text, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Eoghan Casey brings together a few top experts to create the first detailed guide for professionals who are alre...

The relationship between the media and crime is a topic of extremely lively debate and research internationally. With Yvonne Jewkes' background in both media studies and criminology, she introduces re...

Christiana Gregoriou's book, now available in paperback, attempts to redefine the boundaries of an endlessly fascinating genre by exploring three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction ma...

This volume presents the reader with an interesting and, at times, provocative selection of contemporary thinking about cybercrimes and their regulation. The contributions cover the years 2002?2007, d...

This book is the first scholarly study to focus exclusively on the growing subgenre of historical crime fiction. By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this s...

Examining the deviant structures of transnational organised crime, this book considers whether traditional mechanisms and national jusrisdictions can tackle this increasing menace. Highlighting the st...

Despite twenty years of research, it is still debated whether drug dependency leads to crime, or whether involvement in crime increases the probability of drug dependency. This is because the relation...

In many ways, the two fields of victimology and crime prevention have developed along parallel yet separate paths, and the literature on both has been scattered across disciplines as varied as sociolo...

Winner of Reference USA, Booklist Editor's Choice and CHOICE 2002 Outstanding Academic Title awards! `The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment provides the much-needed practices, policies, and researc...

Combining two bestselling Academic Press books, this essential bundle provides reference information for crime reconstruction professionals at a great price. Shooting Incident Reconstruction is an inv...

"Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention" is destined to become the 'go to' source of crime- and loss prevention- related information in the retail industry. Written and edited by two nationally r...

At 1pm on 26 June 1996, the "Sunday Independent's" crime reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion passenger as she waited at traffic lights on the outskirts of Dublin - the victi...

This is the must-have annual anthology for every crime fiction fan - theyear's top new British short stories selected by leading crime critic MaximJakubowski. This great annual covers the full range o...

"Forensic Investigation of Stolen-Recovered and Other Crime-Related Vehicles" is the ultimate reference guide for any auto theft investigator, crime scene technician, criminalist, police investigator,...

Netwar is the lower-intensity, societal-level counterpart to the editors earlier, mostly military concept of cyberwar. This volume studies major instances of netwar - such as bin Laden's network of te...

This book aims to honour the work of Professor Mirjan Damaska, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a prominent authority for many years in the fields of comparative law, procedural law, e...

This new book is partly based on an earlier book, Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights (Blackstone's, 2001), which was published immediately after the Human Rights Act came into force. The...

Covering the evolution of the American criminal justice system throughout history, the four-volume Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library explores everything from juvenile justice to organi...