Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.02.2010
Abbildungen
mit Illustrationen
Verlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
984
Maße (L/B/H)
17.8/24.4/7.4 cm
Gewicht
1859 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84392-372-5
The Handbook of Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains an analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns, and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime. This book is one of the few criminological works that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offenses such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behavior often an amalgamation of different legal offenses which attract contemporary media, public, and policy concerns. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organized criminal groups, corporations, and governments. There are chapters on gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco cri
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