Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction Av Georgios A. (professor Of Criminology Teesside University) Antonopoulos, Georgios (reader In Criminology

Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisingly, crime has been pushed high up the public policy agenda across the world. But how can we measure crime,...

In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts identifies the principal objectives of the criminal justice system and the way in which it works around the world. Analysing a number of case studies about a wide variety of issues, including court processes,...

Using an applications perspective <i>Thermodynamic Models for Industrial Applications</i> provides a unified framework for the development of various thermodynamic models, ranging from the classical models to some of the most advanced ones....

Inhabitants of Medell¿ Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s; thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and left with psychological...