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Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime: Social Dynamics and Implications

IGI Global, 2010

This book takes a novel approach to the presentation and understanding of a controversial topic in modern-day society: hacking. The term hacker was originally used to denote positively-motivated individuals wanting to stretch the capabilities of computers and networks. In contrast, the term cracker was a later version of the term,...

Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

How can psychology inform law and policing to help determine the accuracy of witnesses, victims and suspects?

This second edition of Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility is a substantially revised and exhaustive review of forensic research to do with credibility and the accuracy of evidence.

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Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations (Routledge Advances in Criminology)

Routledge, 2009

While most research has examined the legal, economic and psychological sides of gambling, this innovative collection offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using both historical and present-day case studies from throughout the world, the authors seriously consider the rituals, symbols, the meanings, values,...

Adventures in Criminology

Routledge, 1999

[The book] is one of great distinction, scholarship and wit. ...a pleasure to read and which, itself, is a primary source of evidence from which much can be learnt.
–Punishment and Society

Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century....

Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Three-Volume Set

Academic Press, 2000

The Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences is the first resource to provide comprehensive coverage of the core theories, methods, techniques, and applications employed by forensic scientists. One of the more pressing concerns in forensic science is the collection of evidence from the crime scene and its relevance to the forensic...

Terrorism's Unanswered Questions (Praeger Security International)

Praeger Publishers, 2008

Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to be explored in new and unique ways. Terrorism's Unanswered Questions brings together scholars from the fields of criminology,...

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880

Oxford University Press, 2009

Credit's centrality to the current economic crisis makes the publication of Sean O'Connell's social history of working-class credit consumption particularly timely. Although the credit crunch came too late to be included in this book, the portrait of a complex relationship between lenders and borrowers over the past 120 years should be required...

Investigating Computer Crime

CRC Press, 1996

Investigating Computer Crime will prove a welcome addition to any security department's library.
-Security Management

Investigating Computer Crime presents practical methods for gathering electronic evidence and dealing with crimes involving computers. Based on material gathered from hundreds of investigators all over the...

Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities (Wiley Series in Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Why do people lie?

Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie?

How can lies be detected?

Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of deception to date. This revised edition provides an up-to-date...

Spss for Beginners

1stBooks Library, 1999

This book is the only user-oriented book on SPSS:

• It uses a series of pictures and simple instructions to teach each procedure. Users can conduct procedures by following the graphically illustrated examples. The book is designed for the novice - even those who are inexperienced with SPSS, statistics, or computers. Though its...

Theories of Crime Through Popular Culture

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This textbook brings criminology theories to life through a wide range of popular works in film, television and video games including 13 Reasons Why, Game of Thrones, The Office, and Super Mario Bros, from a variety of contributors. It serves as an engaging and creative...

Geographic Profiling

CRC Press, 1999

Scientific criminology has its roots in crime mapping. The first great systematic studies of crime were cartographic exercises made possible by recordkeeping systems created to track criminal convictions in France and England during the early part of the 19th century. Compared with maps of demographic, economic, and social...

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