Описание: The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty-percent drop over nineteen years in New York City. Twice as long and twice as large, it is the largest crime decline on record. In The City That Became Safe, Franklin E. Zimring seeks out the New York difference through a comprehensive investigation into the city's falling crime rates. The usual understanding is that aggressive police created a zero-tolerance law enforcement regime that drove crime rates down. Is this political sound bite true-are the official statistics generated by the police accurate? Though zero-tolerance policing and quality-of-life were never a consistent part of the NYPD's strategy, Zimring shows the numbers are correct and argues that some combination of more cops, new tactics, and new management can take some credit for the decline. That the police can make a difference at all in preventing crime overturns decades of conventional wisdom from criminologists, but Zimring also points out what most experts have missed: the New York experience challenges the basic assumptions driving American crime- and drug-control policies. New York has shown that crime rates can be greatly reduced without increasing prison populations. New York teaches that targeted harm reduction strategies can drastically cut down on drug related violence even if illegal drug use remains high. And New York has proven that epidemic levels of violent crime are not hard-wired into the populations or cultures of urban America. This careful and penetrating analysis of how the nation's largest city became safe rewrites the playbook on crime and its control for all big cities.
Автор: Graham C. Ousey, Marie Skubak Tillyer, Pamela Wilcox Название: School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization ISBN: 1439920362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439920367 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Schools should be safe—but they are not always safe for everybody. Authors Pamela Wilcox, Graham Ousey, and Marie Skubak Tillyer studied crime among students located across diverse middle- and high-school settings to investigate why some students engage in delinquency—but others do not—and why some students are more prone to victimization. School Zone focuses on the three key interactional elements—context, victims, and offenders—to understand and explain the impact of common crimes such as theft, weapon carrying, drug possession and the verbal, physical, and sexual harassment of classmates.
The authors also consider how individual students and schools respond to crime and threats. They analyze the variables that schools can control in planning and practice that explain why some schools have higher crime rates. School Zone uses empirical studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of the patterns and causes of variation in individual- and aggregate-level school-based offending and victimization experiences while also addressing the adequacy of wide-ranging criminological explanations and crime prevention policies.
In their conclusion, the authors assess the extent to which currently popular strategies of school crime prevention align with what they have discovered through their problem-analysis framework and scientific understandings of student offending and victimization.
Автор: Bell, Christine Название: Transitional Justice ISBN: 0367596148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367596149 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6200.00 р. 6889.00-10% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.)
Описание: Stratified Policing seeks to facilitate organizational change for crime reduction by providing a clear and adaptable structure for analysis, problem solving, and accountability. The purpose of this book is to outline the theoretical and practical foundations of Stratified Policing as well as its components and specific guidance for police departments to tailor the approach and implement it into their day-to-day operational crime reduction efforts. The material is well grounded in theory, research, and best practices and well cited; however, the presentation and language will be suited for the practitioner/professional audience.
The book is a culmination of the authors 15 years of work and will synthesize their research, other publications on Stratified Policing, and provide new material for police leaders and professionals who are seeking an organizational structure to institutionalize crime reduction strategies into their day to day operations. The book has a very practical voice as both authors have been practitioners and have worked with many police agencies implementing and evaluating the strategies discussed in the book.
Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them—the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time.
Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation, and how we came to equate them with violence.
Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell.
Автор: Ian Ward Название: Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England ISBN: 1849462941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849462945 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 13490.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By analysing relevant statues alongside the literature of the time, Ian Ward investigates Victorian anxieties about the `condition` of its women, concentrating in particular on four `crimes`: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution.
Автор: Sally S. Simpson; David Weisburd Название: The Criminology of White-Collar Crime ISBN: 1441918590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441918598 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16464.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book will synthesize and integrate better what are often disparate ideas, themes, and methods across substantive areas of white-collar crime and criminology and criminal justice.
Автор: Hudson, Judith Название: Crime and consequence in early modern literature and law ISBN: 1474454356 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474454353 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 16381.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society.
Автор: Windle, James Lynch, Orla Sweeney, Kevin O`neill, Maggie Donson, Fiona (university College, Cork, Ireland) Cuffe, James Название: Criminology, crime and justice in ireland ISBN: 0367490633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367490638 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Criminology in Ireland. Logically structured and clearly written, this book explores theory and empirical research through real-life examples from an Irish context.
Автор: Clive Emsley, Sara McDougall Название: A Global History of Crime and Punishment: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 1472584848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472584847 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 86724.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What constituted a crime 2,500 years ago, and how was criminal activity dealt with? How has our definition of justice evolved over time alongside developments in law, society, religion and class structures? 36 experts address these pressing questions in a six-volume reference set that spans 2,500 years of human history. Integrating perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy and classics, this globally-focused work traces developments in the ever-changing criminal and justice worlds against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes.
This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2.
Medieval Age (800 - 1450); 3. Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5.
Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. Modern Age (1920 - 2000+). Themes include crime, types of criminal, law enforcement, sanctions and representations of crime and punishment.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp. with c. 300 illustrations.
Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
Название: Palgrave handbook on art crime ISBN: 113754404X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137544049 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 42688.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges.
Автор: Franklin, Adrian Название: Retro: A Guide to the Mid-20th Century Design Revival ISBN: 0857858505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857858504 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 992.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Climate variability is controlled by nonlinear processes, which can give rise to transition behavior due to tipping points and extreme behavior. This book presents stochastic dynamical systems theory, synthesizing our current knowledge of climate variability. An invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in climate dynamics, physical oceanography, meteorology and paleoclimatology.
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