The scope of this book is wide-ranging and includes methods of searching for and locating buried remains, their practical recovery, the decay of human and associated death scene materials, the analysis and identification.
Why are newspapers and television programmes filled with stories about crime and criminals? Is their portrayal of crime accurate? How do the media transform our attitudes to crime? Is fear...
The second edition features expanded coverage of measurement, qualitative research methods, and evaluation research methods, as well as additional downloadable journal articles to ensure students begin to think critically about research and ...
Discusses many of the ways that New York City dropped its crime rate between the years of 1991 and 2000.
Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop.
... 172 Monsanto Corporation , 105 Moore , Elizabeth , 53 , 171 Moore , Kevin B. , 35 Morrison , James , motives , 56 Moutsatos , Steve S. , 71 Murray , Dennis , 40 106 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement , 98 official ...
Focusing on the problems that novice researchers encounter when translating neat and tidy textbook methodologies into real life situations, this guide explains how to undertake research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.
The text, its test questions, discussion sessions, and writing assignments are designed to be used in both traditional and online classrooms.
This peer reviewed collection of essays aims to contribute to crime and place studies by making explicit the problems involved in choosing units of analysis in geographic criminology.
Neal hated it when women cried. He watched her as she picked up her daughter and thought to himself, “What a mess!” Before he had time to try to think things through, Ralph opened the front door and said, “Her father's here.
... studies have been based on existing official records of delinquents ( social inquiries , criminal records , etc. ) . Only in a few cases did the authors collect their data by ... criminals who 100 PROSPECTIVE STUDIES OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY.