This is the first time Eddie has ever spoken out about his story and he is willing to reveal everything that the press have been dying to know for the last 20 years - including how he escaped. He has never confirmed or denied anything that has been printed about him before but will now in his own words.
This book provides a highly readable introduction to the phenomenon of football hooliganism. It is ideal for students taking courses around this subject, as well as those with a professional interest such as the police and those responsible for stadium safety and management.
This work aims to provide an in-depth overview of forensic psychology, demonstrating the scope and techniques of forensic psychology in key areas of research, policy and practice. It raises questions for research, and shows ways in which it can aid the practice of criminal justice.
How does a state control its citizens? Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish answers this question by investigating the prison system. Foucault argues that prison created and merged into a wider system of surveillance that extends throughout society.
Why would you kill your neighbour? Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked by a homicide epidemic.
Written by two of the leading names in the field, this book is a truly international, critical analysis of the globalization of policing and its impact on contemporary criminology and criminal justice
Renowned criminologist Mike Hough considers how the police service might build trust, legitimacy and compliance with the law in this important book. He challenges conventional thinking on crime, contrasts 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles and offers a fresh approach that secures compliance with the law through ethical policing.
In The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today.
Providing an account of the background, theory and practice of crime prevention and community safety, this book offers a detailed overview of the main theories and perspectives informing crime prevention policy and practice, and includes chapters covering efforts to address a number of the main types of crime problems.
This edited volume sets out, in a range of essays from leading experts and practitioners, the main concepts and philosophies behind the practical framework for intelligence gathering and analysis in UK policing. It is the first of its kind to give the theoretical context of current police practice across a wide range of intelligence-related areas.
Including chapters on policing and forensics, this title offers a comprehensive overview of policing in the UK, and is a useful reference point combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves.
Provides a source of information and analysis about various aspects of the work of the Probation Service - a useful text for those working in probation, studying the subject as part of criminology or criminal justice course, or training for it. This work takes account of the changes that the Probation Service has undergone.
Building on the success of the previous edition, this book will provide an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology and will feature new chapters on intersectionality, sexuality, crimes of the powerful and hate crime, as well as psychological perspectives.
The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons builds on the critical and commercial success of the first edition and includes new chapters, new sections and new authors to give it a fresh and significantly different feel to its predecessor.
Written in the post 9/11 context this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross-cultural position on these questions.
Explaining cybercrime in a highly networked world, this book provides a comprehensive yet accessible summary of the history, modern developments, and efforts to combat cybercrime in various forms at all levels of government-international, national, state, and local.
Delving into the real issues of policing, and fully updated to cover recent changes in the field, the acclaimed Introduction to Policing, Third Edition is the introduction to your Police Studies course.