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With the rise of the Internet and the explosion of Web-based entertainment, digital piracy has become a startlingly common crime and a huge problem that robs companies, artists, and other content creators of their creative and financial due. The fundamentally unfair nature of the crime and the harsh consequences of this illegal behavior need to be brought home to teens in a very visceral, high-impact way. By framing the discussion as property theft pure and simple and putting a human face on the victims, who are the very people teens respect and idolize-musicians, actors, directors, authors, gamers, programmers--this text does exactly that. Steeped as it is in digital literacy, suitable as a source for research projects, and serving up an argument whose structure, development, and effectiveness can be analyzed by readers, this is an excellent example of an informational text that conforms to many of the reading standards of the Common Core Curriculum

"Veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor Judge James P. Gray believes drug prohibition remains one of our country's biggest failed policies. In this updated edition of his bestseller, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What Can We Do About It, Judge Gray provides startling information about drug-related crimes--from escalating incarceration rates to drug-related kidnappings. Judge Gray also examines the latest experiments in drug legalization. The thirteen states that have adopted medical marijuana have seen a reduction of crime and an increase in revenue. Judge Gray explains how and why we need to take the profit out of the drug trade. There are viable options at work in other countries--Portugal saw a drop of 50 percent in drug usage for problem users after decriminalization, as well as a drop in children's drug use! This incendiary book will anger readers, but it also provides hope. We can solve some of our medical and social problems--by repealing our failed drug laws."--Publisher's website

Front Cover -- True Crime -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Introduction -- Timeline of Prison History -- 1 Inside Oblivion: Then and Now -- 2 Florence Maybrick: Ready for the Noose -- 3 The Ballad of Oscar Wilde -- 4 Sir Roger Casement: Hanged by a Comma -- 5 Eamon de Valera: Sprung from Lincoln Prison -- 6 Her Ghost Haunts the Death Cell -- 7 Lord Haw Haw: Germany Calling -- 8 A spy and a Rogue in the War -- 9 Mutiny in North Yorkshire -- 10 Ruth Ellis: Crime of Passion -- 11 Harry Roberts: 1966 and All That -- 12 Dennis Stafford: Escape from Dartmoor -- 13 Dennis Nilsen: Nice to be Loved -- 14 Ian Brady: Keeping Shtum -- 15 Jeremy Bamber: Endless Campaign -- 16 John Straffen: Fifty-five Years Inside -- 17 Sutcliffe: Every Day a Torment -- 18 Beverley Allitt: Bring Me The Innocents -- 19 Charles Bronson: Prison Superstar -- 20 Noel Razor Smith: Best-selling Writer -- 21 The Krays Inside -- Conclusions -- An Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography

A brief historical overview of juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency -- Trends in American youth crime -- Scaling up from juvenile court records to offenses committed -- Reforming juvenile justice through comprehensive community planning -- Effectiveness of early crime prevention -- From risk identification to risk management : a comprehensive strategy for young children engaging in antisocial behavior -- The power of education in juvenile justice -- Effective programs to reduce school bullying -- Developmental pathways and life trajectories of delinquency -- Family influences on delinquency -- The late modern world of adolescence and sociological theories of delinquency -- Screening and assessment of mental health disorders and risk of re-offending among juvenile offenders -- Youth suicide in juvenile justice settings : prevention through empirically based assessment and crisis intervention -- Police responses to criminal and juvenile justice in the 21st century -- State-of-the-art juvenile detention : in search of a new normal -- Therapeutic jurisprudence and juvenile court -- Innovative justice for youth with mental health and substance use disorders : juvenile drug and mental health courts

The drug war in Mexico has caused some U.S. analysts to view Mexico as a failed or failing state. While these fears are exaggerated, the problems of widespread crime and violence, government corruption, and inadequate access to justice pose grave challenges for the Mexican state. The Obama administration has therefore affirmed its commitment to assist Mexico through continued bilateral collaboration, funding for judicial and security sector reform, and building "resilient communities." The author analyzes the drug war in Mexico, explores Mexico's capacities and limitations, examines the factors that have undermined effective state performance, assesses the prospects for U.S. support to strengthen critical state institutions, and offers recommendations for reducing the potential of state failure. He argues that the United States should help Mexico address its pressing crime and corruption problems by going beyond traditional programs to strengthen the country's judicial and security sector capacity and help it build stronger political institutions, a more robust economy, and a thriving civil society.

"American Criminal Justice Policy examines many of the most prominent criminal justice policies on the American landscape and finds that they fall well short of achieving the accountability and effectiveness that policymakers have advocated and that the public expects. The policies include mass incarceration, sex offender laws, supermax prisons, faith-based prisoner reentry programs, transfer of juveniles to adult court, domestic violence mandatory arrest laws, drug courts, gun laws, community policing, private prisons, and many others. Optimistically, Daniel P. Mears argues that this situation can be changed through systematic incorporation of evaluation research into policy development, monitoring, and assessment. To this end, the book provides a clear and accessible discussion of five types of evaluation - needs, theory, implementation or process, outcome and impact, and cost-efficiency. And it identifies how they can be used both to hold the criminal justice system accountable and to increase the effectiveness of crime control and crime prevention efforts."--Provided by publisher

In this sequel to I'm Still Standing, ex-burglar Bob Turney tells of how he went from being wanted by the police and criminal underworld to being wanted for himself. It is an intriguing story of his journey from prisoner to upstanding citizen, husband, father, probation officer, author and broadcaster - told with self-deprecating humour, insight and deep concern for victims of crime in particular.He writes of life on both sides of the tracks and at each end of the social spectrum - and of how an educationally subnormal, dyslexic schoolboy grew up to take a degree, join the speaking circuit, become an author and have his writings adopted as core reading for university students!Wanted! is an entertaining work that is packed with unusual perspectives and insights concerning crime, criminal justice and penal affairs. It is also a work of hope and encouragement as Bob Turney tells the story of how he escaped from the wrong turnings and false values of his youth into a new life.

The study of fire debris analysis is vital to the function of all fire investigations, and, as such, Fire Debris Analysis is an essential resource for fire investigators. The present methods of analysis include the use of gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, techniques which are well established and used by crime laboratories throughout the world. However, despite their universality, this is the first comprehensive resource that addresses their application to fire debris analysis. Fire Debris Analysis covers topics such as the physics and chemistry of fire and liquid fuels, the interpretation of data obtained from fire debris, and the future of the subject. Its cutting-edge material and experienced author team distinguishes this book as a quality reference that should be on the shelves of all crime laboratories. * Serves as a comprehensive guide to the science of fire debris analysis * Presents both basic and advanced concepts in an easily readable, logical sequence * Includes a full-color insert with figures that illustrate key concepts discussed in the text

Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Modern Conservatism Versus Social Democracy -- Introduction -- Modern Conservatism -- Social Democracy -- Conclusion -- 2 The New Radicalisms -- Introduction -- Egalitarianism -- Discourse -- Feminism -- Concluding Thoughts -- 3 Agency, Community and Class -- Introduction -- Agency -- Community -- Class -- Conclusion -- 4 Insecurities -- Introduction -- Accounting for Insecurity -- The Need for Insecurity -- Framing Social Policy -- Concluding Remarks -- 5 Information and Society -- Introduction -- Information Society -- Criticisms of Castells and Lash -- Inclusion, Exclusion and Critical Theory -- Info-Welfare Regimes -- Education, Health and Social Technology -- Conclusion -- 6 Genes and Environments -- Introduction -- Darwin vs. Darwin -- For and Against Biotechnology -- Social Policies and Genetics -- Conclusion -- 7 Social Psychologies, Emotions, Bodies -- Introduction -- Social Psychology -- Emotions -- Bodies -- Conclusion -- 8 Governance, Crime and Surveillance -- Introduction -- Governance -- Crime -- Surveillance -- Conclusion -- 9 Culture and Media -- Culture -- Media -- Concluding Thoughts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

A group of men rape an intoxicated fifteen year old girl to "make a woman of her." An immigrant woman is raped after accepting a ride from a stranger. A young mother is accosted after a neighbor escorts her home. In another case, a college frat party is the scene of the crime. Although these incidents appear similar to accounts one can read in the newspapers almost any day in the United States, only the last one occurred in this century. Each, however, involved a woman or girl compelled to have sex against her will. Sex without Consent explores the experience, prosecution, and meaning of rape in American history from the time of the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the present. By exploring what rape meant in particular times and places in American history, from interracial encounters due to colonization and slavery to rape on contemporary college campuses, the contributors add to our understanding of crime and punishment, as well as to gender relations, gender roles, and sexual politics

The UK has never accepted that cities are at the heart of its economy, society and civilisation. Rather, our cities have been something that we prefer to despair about or simply ignore. For successive governments, cities have been seen as the root of the UK's political and economic problems high unemployment, low productivity, crime and social exclusion. We have the world's fourth largest economy and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the developed world, but there are still people and neighbourhoods who are increasingly dislocated from the country's overall prosperity. joblessness and urban deprivation remains a major problem in many of the UK's cities. In these places poor health, education, housing and transport go hand in hand with high unemployment, crime and dereliction. Jobs and businesses are often in short supply. If Britain is to capitalise on nine years of steady growth, it must ensure that our cities, notably those outside London, can reproduce the capital's economic and social vitality. And there are signs of life ...

The host of America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has formed a vital partnership with the public, the media, and law enforcement that has led to the capture of hundreds of the worst serial killers, kidnappers, pedophiles, and rapists of our time. In Public Enemies he reveals the cost -- the blood, sweat, and tears -- behind the relentless pursuit of hard justice. In those and other gripping true-crime profiles, John Walsh exposes the behind-the-scenes drama of the groundbreaking show, and what actually unfolds between the crimes and the captures -- the vital leads from strangers, the dangerous manhunts, the developments cut from the AMW broadcasts, and the dogged investigations by authorities. He divulges stunning lapses in the judicial process that release monsters to the streets time and again. He takes readers inside the hearts and souls of the grieving families, and gives eyewitness accounts of the dramatic final moments when fugitives are finally taken down.

The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which perpetrated the "biggest bank fraud in history", was founded by Agha Hassan Abedi and initially registered in Luxembourg in 1972. Its other center of operations was the Cayman Islands and eventually it operated in 73 counries. In the summer of 1991, it was shuttered by the Bank of England. Its many crimes included illegally buying American banks using "straw men" and courting powerful American politicos, laundering drug profits, plundering deposits to conceal grotesque losses on treasury trading, and making illicit loans totaling around a billion dollars that were not expected to be serviced. BCCI also ran accounts for both international terrorists and several national Intelligence Services. What follows in this book are essays dealing with certain aspects of BCCI's misbehaviour and various odd structures, as well as a most important document from Luxembourg's Civil Court, detailing charges against BCCI's auditor, Price Waterhouse subsequently PricewaterhouseCoopers. Readership: advanced students, researchers, attorneys and accountants interested in transnational financial crime

Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations, such as community or problem oriented policing present to the traditional, historical mechanisms for maintaining control of the police. Additionally, a comparative perspective is featured that draws upon the experiences of the Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union as well as on the history of European law enforcement over the last century. This book is instrumental for encouraging discussion and debate of police innovation and its impact on the ability of society to control the police abuse. In light of the Los Angeles riots of the Spring of 1992, scholars, practitioners, and students of crime prevention studies, criminology, and psychology will find this volume timely, topical, and provocative

This study uses semi-structured interviews to investigate 26 police officers' insights on identifying and overcoming contemporary policing challenges in the UK. The findings reveal that the primary challenges include (a) public trust in the police, (b) police officers' recruitment and retention, (c) resourcing and funding, (d) a lack of adequate training, (e) the undefined police role and (f) the prevention of complex crimes, mainly fraud and cybercrime. The study highlighted the reasons for these challenges and how they can be addressed, as seen through police officers' eyes. The findings have implications for policing research, governance, leadership and legitimacy, which are later discussed. Points for practitioners Public management and administration practitioners must prioritise public trust, recruitment, training, resource allocation and addressing complex crime. Collaboration with police officers and their perspectives are vital in decision-making, policy development and police legitimacy. Strengthening accountability, integrity and officer training rebuilds public trust. Learning from attractive employers, broadening police roles to include intellectual abilities and improving pay and community trust address recruitment challenges.