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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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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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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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Violence in the Balkans : First findings from the Balkan Homicide Study
This is the first volume to offer an in-depth look at (lethal) violence in the Balkans. The Balkans Homicide Study analyses 3,000 (attempted) homicide cases from Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia. Shedding light on a region long neglected in terms of empirical violence research, the study at hand asks: - What types of homicides occur in the Balkans? - Who are the p…
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- 978-3-030-74494-6
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- XIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Preparing for Digital Disruption
This open access book offers an analysis of why preparations for digital disruption should become a stated goal of security policy and policies that aim to safeguard the continuity of critical infrastructure. The increasing use of digital technology implies new and significant vulnerabilities for our society. However, it is striking that almost all cyber-security measures taken by governments, …
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- 9783030778385
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- XIV, 74 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. H…
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- 978-1-137-60089-9
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Human Rights in Child Protection : Implications for Professional Practice and…
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each ch…
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- 9783319948003
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- XVII, 258 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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