The Oxford Handbook Of Offender Decision Making

Author : Wim Bernasco,Henk Elffers,Jean-Louis van Gelder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199338818

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The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making by Wim Bernasco,Henk Elffers,Jean-Louis van Gelder Pdf

Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as large variety crimes including homicide, robbery, domestic violence, burglary, street crime, sexual crimes, and cybercrime. Lastly, it provides in-depth treatments of the major methods used to study offender decision-making, including experiments, observation studies, surveys, offender interviews, and simulations. Comprehensive and authoritative, the Handbook will quickly become the primary source of theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge about decision-making as it relates to criminal behavior.

Author : Wim Bernasco,Jean-Louis Van Gelder,H. Elffers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Choice (Psychology)
ISBN : 0190216271

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The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making by Wim Bernasco,Jean-Louis Van Gelder,H. Elffers Pdf

Author : Fiona Brookman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761947558

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Understanding Homicide by Fiona Brookman Pdf

This comprehensive and challenging text unravels the phenomenon of homicide. In introducing the broad spectrum of different features, aspects and forms of homicide, Fiona Brookman examines its patterns and trends, how it may be explained, its investigation and how it may be prevented.

Author : Barry C. Feld,Donna M. Bishop
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 955 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195385106

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The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice by Barry C. Feld,Donna M. Bishop Pdf

State-of-the-art critical reviews of recent scholarship on the causes of juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice system responses, and public policies to prevent and reduce youth crime are brought together in a single volume authored by leading scholars and researchers in neuropsychology, developmental and social psychology, sociology, history, criminology/criminal justice, and law.

Author : Rod Morgan,Mike Maguire,Robert Reiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780199590278

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The Oxford Handbook of Criminology by Rod Morgan,Mike Maguire,Robert Reiner Pdf

The fifth edition provides reviews of diverse topics as public views about crime and justice, youth crime and justice and state crime and human rights.

Author : Danielle M. Reynald,Benoit Leclerc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315441184

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The Future of Rational Choice for Crime Prevention by Danielle M. Reynald,Benoit Leclerc Pdf

The rational choice perspective (RCP) is currently the core theoretical approach underpinning situational crime prevention (SCP). To date, many crimes have been studied through the lens of RCP, which increased our understanding of these phenomena, how they are committed and how they could potentially be prevented through SCP. This book, designed with the hope of moving RCP forward for SCP purposes, takes a challenging but novel step in providing leading experts from different disciplines with the opportunity to express themselves on how we could best achieve this task. This book explores various perspectives, which include the development of frameworks based on the role of situations in crime or forensic sciences for improving crime prevention practices. The need to consider affective states and other offender-related factors to improve our understanding of offender decision-making models is highlighted as a means to better predict which SCP mechanisms may be most useful in discouraging particular types of offenders. Finally, it is also argued that the use of RCP should be more pragmatic and that this perspective should be preserved and adapted based on what we find in our experiments. Taken together, these theoretically distinctive and challenging contributions ultimately guide how crime prevention practices could be best approached in the future.

Author : Joan Petersilia,Kevin R. Reitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190241445

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The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections by Joan Petersilia,Kevin R. Reitz Pdf

Originally published: 2012. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 2015.

Author : John Minkes,Leonard Minkes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849208352

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Corporate and White Collar Crime by John Minkes,Leonard Minkes Pdf

`This timely collection contains contemporary case studies and critical analyses by leading writers in the study of white collar corporate crime. It makes an invaluable contribution to the ′criminology of the corporation′" - Professor Hazel Croall, Glasgow Caledonian University Corporate and White Collar Crime is an essential overview of this diverse subject area and encourages students to develop a broad understanding of the topic. Aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Business and Management Studies, the book will cross-over into many other disciplines including Law and Social Policy. "This is an innovative and multidisciplinary analysis of corporate and white collar crime that is both theoretically and empirically rich. The text serves as a poignant reminder why research involving the powerful must be a central part of criminological inquiry and why this book is essential reading." Professor Reece Walters, The Open University "Again and again, pension funds are pillaged, investors fleeced, commuters killed, workers maimed, and communities poisoned. Why is it that so few of these acts are defined as crimes, and why is it that, even when they are, prosecution is so rarely effective? Corporate Crime and White Collar Crime addresses these very questions through its rigorous, well-developed analysis and its wide ranging empirical focus - on Europe, North America, Asia and beyond. The book can help all of us to re-examine our understanding of the nature of crime and of criminals, and to reassess the costs as well as the benefits of our current economic, political and social order." Professor Frank Pearce, Queen′s University, Canada

Author : Eyal Zamir,Doron Teichman
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199945474

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The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law by Eyal Zamir,Doron Teichman Pdf

'The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law' brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its twenty-nine chapters are organized into four parts.

Author : Jean-Louis van Gelder,Henk Elffers,Danielle Reynald,Daniel S Nagin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135123093

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Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making by Jean-Louis van Gelder,Henk Elffers,Danielle Reynald,Daniel S Nagin Pdf

Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral economists and neuroscientists have found affect (i.e., emotions, moods) and visceral factors such as sexual arousal and drug craving, to play a fundamental role in human decision processes. This book examines alternative approaches to incorporating affect into criminal decision making and testing its influence on such decisions. In so doing it generalizes extant cognitive theories of criminal decision making by incorporating affect into the decision process. In two conceptual and ten empirical chapters it is carefully argued how affect influences criminal decisions alongside rational and cognitive considerations. The empirical studies use a wide variety of methods ranging from interviews and observations to experimental approaches and questionnaires, and treat crimes as diverse as street robbery, pilfering, and sex offences. It will be of interest to criminologists, social psychologists, judgment and decision making researchers, behavioral economists and sociologists alike.

Author : Michael Tonry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199875313

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The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice by Michael Tonry Pdf

This handbook provides an accessible, high-quality, and comprehensive introduction to and overview of the operation of the American criminal justice system. It is divided into five sections covering the purposes and functions of the system, its problems and priorities, and its main institutions-police and policing, prosecution and sentencing, and community and institutional corrections. Highly regarded in the field, Michael Tonry brings together a mix of established, senior scholars and up-and-coming writers to provide authoritative and cutting-edge contributions on hot-button topics, from the justice system's handling of immigration and terrorism to racial profiling, parole, and re-entry, as well as bread-and-butter issues like incapacitation, jails, drugs, and police strategy. As countries vary substantially in the detailed operation of some agencies and few scholars have detailed knowledge of the operation of two or more countries' systems, the focus is principally, though not exclusively, on the American justice system.

Author : Mary Bosworth,Carolyn Hoyle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191635410

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What is Criminology? by Mary Bosworth,Carolyn Hoyle Pdf

Criminology is a booming discipline, yet one which can appear divided and fractious. In this rich and diverse collection of 34 essays, some of the worlds leading criminologists respond to a series of questions designed to investigate the state, impact and future challenges of the discipline: What is criminology for? What is the impact of criminology? How should criminology be done? What are the key issues and debates in criminology today? What challenges does the discipline of criminology face? How has criminology as a discipline changed over the last few decades? The resulting essays identify a series of intellectual, methodological and ideological borders. Borders, in criminology as elsewhere, are policed, yet they are also frequently transgressed; criminologists can and do move across them to plunder, admire, or learn from other regions. While some boundaries may be more difficult or dangerous to cross than others it is rare to find an entirely secluded locale or community. In traversing ideological, political, geographical and disciplinary borders, criminologists bring training, tools and concepts, as well as key texts to share with foreigners. From such exchanges, over time, borders may break down, shift, or spring up, enriching those who take the journey and those who are visited. It is, in other words, in criminologys capacity for and commitment to reflexivity, on which the strength of the field depends.

Author : Markus D Dubber
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191654626

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Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law by Markus D Dubber Pdf

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. It examines the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by documenting its intellectual and disciplinary history and provides a snapshot of contemporary work on criminal law within that historical and comparative context. Criminal law discourse has become, and will continue to become, more international and comparative, and in this sense global: the long-standing parochialism of criminal law scholarship and doctrine is giving way to a broad exploration of the foundations of modern criminal law. The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by contributions from leading representatives of both systems.

Author : Mark Findlay,Stephen Odgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134499404

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Australian Criminal Justice by Mark Findlay,Stephen Odgers Pdf

Provides a complete overview of the criminal justice process. It analyses the influences that shape criminal justice and examines the institutional and administrative features of its operation in all jurisdictions. Findlay, University of Sydney, Australia.

Author : Laurence Alison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351881807

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The Social Psychology of Crime by Laurence Alison Pdf

Crime is always part of a social process. In many cases that process determines the form the crime takes. In this ground-breaking book, a wide range of crimes are examined in terms of the social psychological processes that influence the participants and their relationships with each other. Crimes as diverse as fraud and hostage taking are examined from a range of social science perspectives, including broad anthropological perspectives on differences in the structure of criminal cultures as well as the detailed consideration of the roles offenders play in groups and teams of criminals. This book opens up a new area of empirical study of relevance to students of crime as well as law enforcement officers. It will also be of value and interest to all those social scientists who wish to understand how their disciplines can contribute more effectively to the investigation of crime.