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Failure of the State: Organised Crime and Mexico's Disappeared
This Open Access book explores an issue that has received little attention in human rights research: organised criminal groups (OCGs) as perpetrators of human rights violations, especially disappearances. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining doctrinal legal research with a qualitative study on present-day disappearances in Mexico. Disappearances are a complex human rights violation…
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- 978-3-031-83717-3
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- XIX, 326
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Target Suitability and the Crime Drop
This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability, via improved sec…
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- 978-1-137-52502-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods = A Cross-Cultural Comparison …
This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on …
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- 9783030162870
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- XII, 192 ill; lamp
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Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there…
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- 978-90-04-38843-7
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- Crime and City in History, Volume: 3
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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro = Cosmologies of War and The Far-Right
This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have waged war against armed drug gangs based in the city’s favelas, casting the people who live in these communities as interna…
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- 9783031490279
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- XXI, 330 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Policing in the Pacific Islands
This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pa…
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- 9783031106354
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- XV, 197 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on current trends in crime governance. They explore the place and role of genetics in criminal justice systems, and show how classical …
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- 9789811524295
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- IX, 114 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous …
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- 978-981-99-0401-3
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- XXVI, 326
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Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporar…
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- 978-3-031-46057-9
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- XIII, 352
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Police Code of Silence in Times of Change
This book explores the contours of the code of silence and provides policy recommendations geared toward creating an environment less conducive for police misconduct. It responds to the recent calls for police reform, in the wake of the perceived illegitimacy of police actions and the protection that the code of silence seems to provide to the police officers who violate the official rules. …
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- 978-3-030-96844-1
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- XII, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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