This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.
This book examines the representation and misrepresentation of queer people in true crime, addressing their status as both victims and perpetrators in actual crime, as well as how the media portrays them.
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum to Jack the Ripper guided tours, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians expose a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture in which many of us partake.
On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: 'Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ... the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death.'The problem was that Peter did not commit this crime.
After decades of the American ""war on drugs"" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women.
Fully updated, this edition provides crime scene investigators and students step-by-step procedures and best practices for capturing better crime scene and evidentiary photographs by discussing and explaining photographic concepts, especially in difficult or low-light environments, in an easily understandable way.
Fully updated, this edition provides crime scene investigators and students step-by-step procedures and best practices for capturing better crime scene and evidentiary photographs by discussing and explaining photographic concepts, especially in difficult or low-light environments, in an easily understandable way.
This book provides crime scene investigators with a comprehensive, step-by-step resource on crime scene photography. It details the best way to properly document a crime scene, including methods to photograph various types of crime scene evidence under difficult and adverse conditions. Featuring more than 250 full-color images and photographs, t
Considering different research methods, models of knowledge accumulation and the communication and presentation of evidence, this book contributes to policing scholarship policing by providing support for the evidence-based approach.
Whereas crime more generally has fallen over the last 20 years, levels of serious youth violence remain high. This book explores the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and serious youth violence and advocates for a more psychosocial approach to trauma-informed policy and practice within the youth justice system.