The Inside Story of America's Most Controversial Law Enforcement Agency--The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
From Chicago's Al Capone to Waco's David Koresh, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has taken on America's most ruthless criminals and single-minded fanatics. In Very Special Agents, a longtime ATF veteran delivers the first full disclosure of the bureau's controversial exploits. When James Moore joined the ATF at Newark, New Jersey, in ......
How Well Do Children and Adolescents Describe and Identify Perpetrators?
Every year, numerous crimes occur involving child eyewitnesses. But how reliable is child eyewitness evidence? This book summarises the research on how well children can describe an event and perpetrator and how well they can identify the perpetrator. It shows that although children may be less advanced in these skills than adults, they ......
Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Cont
Offers a new understanding of the changing world of police departments and information technology's significant and undeniable influence on crime management
Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Cont
Offers a new understanding of the changing world of police departments and information technology's significant and undeniable influence on crime management
Reviews five examples of international criminal justice as they have been applied across Africa, where brutal civil conflicts in recent decades resulted in varying degrees of global attention and action. The book contributes to a broader international understanding of African politics and international criminal justice.
Covering a range of legal and medical issues pertaining to the interconnection between law and sexual behaviour, this book examines the nature of paraphilic behaviour and the social framework within which some of it becomes illegal. It discusses topics including sodomy, paedophilia, incest, sexual abuse, rape, exhibitionism, and prostitution.
More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court
In this extensive revision of his classic guide, Stanley Brodsky, joined by coauthor Thomas Gutheil, continues to educate and entertain mental health professionals who are called as expert witnesses, teaching them simple, effective strategies for direct and cross-examination.
Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.
Car bombing, suicide bombing, abduction, smuggling, homicide, and hijacking are all profoundly criminal acts. This work presents an understanding of terrorism from a criminological point of view, arguing that the most successful way to understand, detect, prosecute and deter these acts is to use conventional criminal investigation methods.