This is the horrifying true story of a serial killer who left a trail of bodies across the globe. He eluded authorities for more than a quarter of a century until he was finally brought to justice after murdering British schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson in a French youth hostel. Francisco Arce Montes was a twisted, rejected loner with an addiction to murder. Only when he was finally caught, for the murder of Caroline, did the authorities uncover his trail of victims from Europe to South America. It...
How Goes the War on Drugs?
by Jonathan P Caulkins, Peter Reuter, Martin Y. Iguchi, and James Chiesa
Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood (SpringerBriefs in Criminology)
by Wesley G. Jennings, Rolf Loeber, Dustin A. Pardini, Alex R. Piquero, and David P. Farrington
This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in 1987, and involves repeated follow-ups on several community cohorts (starting in grades 1, 4, and 7) of inner-city boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This Brief covers the Youngest and Oldest PYS cohort...
Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians' willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will. Horrified by the guillotine execution of one of his clients in 1972, Robert Badinter dedicated his life to the abolition of the death penalty. Here, he recounts his efforts to publicly subvert the death penalty system by orchestrating the appeals for a series of notorious...
The Future of Batterer Programs (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Edward W. Gondolf
Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has prompted calls to overhaul or replace such programs. Edward W. Gondolf examines batterer research in light of the push for "evidence-based practice" and advocates a progressive evolution of batterer intervention as it currently stands. Cautioning against the call for programs based on a "new psychology," he argues that...
Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense...
Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective
Commercial Implications of Native Title
This book focuses on the extensive commercial implications of Mabo, Wik and the 1997 native title legislation. It covers: Australian native title legislation and cases The Wik decision and post-Wik legislative optionsThe government's proposed changes to the Native Title ActCape York and Crescent Head AgreementsThe Century Zinc negotiationsAccounting and auditing implicationsImplications for mining and pastoral companiesFreshwater resources and native titleLeases and native titleNative title nego...
Codes of the Underworld
by Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow Diego Gambetta
The Community Order and the Suspended Sentence Order Three Years on (Community Sentences)
by George Mair and Helen Mills
International Handbook of Criminology
A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminology completes an esteemed trilogy of comparative analyses and insight from worldwide experts. Exploring a phenomenon that penetrates cultures of all racial, ethnic, and social classes, this volume continues in the tradition of its predecessors in the
An Inspection of Criminal Justice Social Work Services
Young Fraudsters in Nigeria (Yahoo or G Boys) (Nigerian Youth Challenges, #3)
by Uzochukwu Mike P