Criminology and Criminal Justice

Focusing on determining behavior from body language, speech, and written statements, this practical text explores the complex challenges of basic and advanced interview and interrogation techniques. A renowned bestseller, the book includes photographs demonstrating various nonverbal symptoms, a disc..

Exploring critical issues of leadership within police agencies, this volume discusses the evolution of the modern police department, leadership approaches and management theories, organizational structure, new technology, and managing police stress. It also examines recruitment and training, legisla..

An introductory text that provides an overview of the private security system. It includes crime prevention and its zones of protection - the theoretical framework that provides the bridge between private and public sector law enforcement...

This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved. A number of important suggestions are a..

This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved. A number of important suggestions are a..

This book explores how Irish prison policy has come to take on its particular character, with comparatively low prison numbers, significant reliance on short sentences and a policy-making climate in which long periods of neglect are interspersed with bursts of political activity all prominent featur..

Prison Readings provides a comprehensive, critical introduction to the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons and imprisonment, bringing together a selection of the key readings on the subject, along with a comprehensive introduction and commentary written by the editors...

With a special emphasis on comparisons of violence among incarcerated populations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Prison Violence explores the various systems that exist for combating the problem, whilst also considering public perceptions of offenders and punishment, as influe..

With a special emphasis on comparisons of violence among incarcerated populations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Prison Violence explores the various systems that exist for combating the problem, whilst also considering public perceptions of offenders and punishment, as influe..

Prisons are notoriously dangerous places, yet the crimes perpetrated by prisoners on other prisoners have attracted little interest, and criminological research has contributed little to an understanding of situations in which violence arises in penal institutions. This book seeks to remedy this, an..

Prisons are notoriously dangerous places, yet the crimes perpetrated by prisoners on other prisoners have attracted little interest, and criminological research has contributed little to an understanding of situations in which violence arises in penal institutions. This book seeks to remedy this, an..

_x005F_x000D_ Prison Radicalization and Terrorism Detention Policy argues that correctional strategies to manage violent extremist offenders are flawed – based on untested, potentially false assumptions that are rooted in fear rather than in facts and evidence. It presents a detailed and systematic ..