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This book presents the results of the latest in a long-running research project using the RIMES instrument, developed by scholars in Spain. Here, RIMES is used to measure the extent of social exclusion resulting from the penal system in comparative perspective. The volume shows the results of the application of the instrument in seven criminal justice systems: Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, England and Wales, California, and New York. Divided into two parts, the first provides a general overview of the RIMES instrument, including a discussion of the theoretical model and the methodology. The second part focuses on the results of the application of RIMES in the seven jurisdictions. The compar...
Indigenous communities are typically those that challenge the laws of the nation states of which they have become often very reluctantly a part. Around the world, community policing has emerged in many of these regions as a product of their physical environments and cultures. Through a series of case studies, Community Policing in Indigenous Commun
"El libro “La prevención del delito en función del progreso comunitario. Rompiendo estigmas”, es una recopilación de los principales resultados de las investigaciones de la séptima edición de la maestría en Criminología, así como de los aportes obtenidos de estudios realizados como parte del Proyecto Nacional de Prevención y Comunidad. Estrategia integral para el control y la inserción social de las personas sancionadas penalmente en libertad en el Municipio Centro Habana, sus aportaciones nos introduce verdaderamente a la prevención del delito desde un enfoque general hasta las valoraciones de su impacto y necesidad en la comunidad para lograr una disminución del delito, las...
Al término de la Guerra, Louk Hulsman emprendió sus estudios de derecho, pero lo cierto es que en pocos años se graduó y pasó a prestar servicios en el Ministerio de Guerra y luego en el de Justicia. Entre 1963 y 1986 fue catedrático de derecho penal y criminología en la Universidad de Róterdam. Diseñó la política de drogas holandesa y fue el impulsor del famoso Report on Decriminalization del Consejo de la Unión Europea (Estrasburgo, 1980). Desempeñó diferentes cargos en las directivas de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Penal, en la de Defensa Social y en la de Criminología, fundando además ICOPA (International Conference on Penal Abolition). Su actividad internacion...
Fight the Power considers timely social justice issues for Black people in America through the lens hip-hop lyrics.
This book tackles the growing issues concerning the managerialism and bureacratisation of criminal justice systems across a number of jurisdictions. Here, managerialism means the move towards more standardised, bureaucratic and efficiency-driven systems, influenced by a desire to ensure predictability, control risks and, ultimately, economic savings via a more efficient process. The volume explores the phenomenon of managerialism in selected national criminal legal systems, covering all stages of criminal case processing from arrest to the imposition of sanction. The selected countries represent diverse socio-economic, political, cultural and legal traditions including common law, civil law,...
This three-volume work offers a comprehensive review of the pivotal concepts, measures, theories, and practices that comprise criminology and criminal justice. No longer just a subtopic of sociology, criminology has become an independent academic field of study that incorporates scholarship from numerous disciplines including psychology, political science, behavioral science, law, economics, public health, family studies, social work, and many others. The three-volume Encyclopedia of Criminology presents the latest research as well as the traditional topics which reflect the field's multidisciplinary nature in a single, authoritative reference work. More than 525 alphabetically arranged entr...