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  • Prisons Crowding: A Psychological Perspective

    by Paul Paulus, Verne C. Cox, Garvin McCain ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This volume is a summary of a 1S-year effort to determine the effects of prison crowding and their relationship to the broader realm of crowding phenomena and theories. Although the writing of this volume was for the most part a solitary effort, the data and ideas it is based on were mostly the result of a collaborative effort with Verne Cox and Garvin McCain. Their schedules limited their ability ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology

    Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Campbell ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Forensic psychology has developed and extended from an original, narrow focus on presenting evidence to the courts to a wider application across the whole span of civil and criminal justice, which includes dealing with suspects, offenders, victims, witnesses, defendants, litigants and justice professionals. This Handbook provides an encyclopedic-style source regarding the major concerns in ... Read more

    $81.59 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Forensic Science

    by Max M. Houck, Jay A. Siegel ...
    Fundamentals of Forensic Science, Third Edition, provides current case studies that reflect the ways professional forensic scientists work, not how forensic academicians teach. The book includes the binding principles of forensic science, including the relationships between people, places, and things as demonstrated by transferred evidence, the context of those people, places, and things, and the ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Governing Through Crime

    How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

    by Jonathan Simon ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Solitary Confinement

    Social Death and Its Afterlives

    by Lisa Guenther ...
    Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons—even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of solitary confinement ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine

    by Dr Jonathan P. Wyatt, Dr Tim Squires, Dr Guy Norfolk, Dr John Jason Payne-James ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Forensic medicine covers an amazing range of different subjects and no single individual can expect to be an expert in all of them. The Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine provides comprehensive coverage of all areas within this complex discipline. Written for specialists and non-specialists alike, it will appeal to practising forensic scientists, as well as lawyers, police officers, and forensic ... Read more

    $54.39 CAD

  • Banished

    The New Social Control In Urban America

    by Katherine Beckett, Steve Herbert ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced "zero-tolerance" or "broken window" policing efforts to clear the streets of unwanted people. ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Criminalization, Representation, Regulation

    Thinking Differently about Crime

    Edited by Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, Carmela Murdocca ...
    What is a crime and how do we construct it? The answers to these questions are complex and entangled in a web of power relations that require us to think differently about processes of criminalization and regulation. This book draws on Foucault's concept of governmentality as a lens to analyze and critique how crime is understood, reproduced, and challenged. It explores the dynamic interplay ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception

    A Psychophysiological and International Perspective

    by Gershon Ben-Shakhar, John J. Furedy ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    "Polygraphy;' "lie detection;' and the "detection of deception" are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes. The issues raised by polygraphy are controversial. One such issue is whether the polygraph is a genuinely scientifically based application, or merely a ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Drugs and Alcohol

    Edited by Amnon Carmi, Stanley Schneider ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    G. di Gennaro Abuse of drugs has reached such magnitude that it is regarded by most govern ments, scholars, and experts as one of the major problems of present-day society. The highest values of individuals and social groups are strongly attacked or are at risk as a result of the spread of drug abuse. As a consequence, society is deprived of the contribution of many of its members toward the ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science

    Edited by Massimo Tistarelli, Christophe Champod ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This comprehensive handbook addresses the sophisticated forensic threats and challenges that have arisen in the modern digital age, and reviews the new computing solutions that have been proposed to tackle them. These include identity-related scenarios which cannot be solved with traditional approaches, such as attacks on security systems and the identification of abnormal/dangerous behaviors from ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Clinical Forensic Medicine

    A Physician's Guide

    Edited by Margaret M. Stark ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The publication of this third edition of the definitive text on clinical forensic medicine comes at an exciting time for a subject now gaining recognition as a speciality in the medical establishment. This growing acknowledgement reflects the fact that increasing numbers of health professionals are becoming engaged in general forensic services. Nurses and paramedics are more involved than ever in ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD