Crime & criminology
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Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This title exa...
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Part of the "Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations" series, this book details advanced applied techniques for conducting a fire and arson investigation. It includes chapters on det...
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Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year, fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, often super-smart new breed of criminal: the hacker. This book explores the thr...
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A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accompli...
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Drawing on over 100 films produced in Britain, Canada, and the US from 1912 to 2006, which focus on illegal drugs and their consequences, this book examines representations of discourse about users, t...
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A network analysis of over 22,000 delinquent youths in Stockholm between 1991-5. 9 b/w illus. 26 tables...
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Explores the interplay of historical, traditional culture with contemporary youth culture. It also examines the relationship between individual outcome and community disorganization and illustrates ho...
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Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This work reveals the c...
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