La criminología

estudio sobre el delito y sobre la teoría de la represión

Este libro no tiene por objeto discutir una vez más el problema abstracto, y acaso insoluble, de la responsabilidad moral individual. Sólo es un ensayo acerca de la penalidad, juntamente con un estudio experimental del delincuente, sin generalización alguna de las ideas que de esto ...

Rehabilitation

beyond the risk paradigm

Over the last two decades empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum's swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is ...

La prueba pericial médica

La prueba pericial médica es esencial para la resolución de muchos asuntos sometidos a los tribunales de justicia, en los cuales el éxito de la pretensión deducida por un litigante a través de su abogado se traduce en que el juez acepte la valoración médica ...

Intersecciones teóricas en criminología

acción, elección racional y teoría etiológica

Son diversas las tradiciones que pueden tomarse en cuenta para una explicación relativamente exhaustica y sistemática del delito. Junto, por supuesto, a la teoría criminológica las teorías de la acción o el enfoque de la elección racional ofrecen desarrollos teóricos prometedores, a la vez que ...

Supranational criminology

towards a criminology of International crimes

The study of international crimes, like war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, deserves to grow into a separate and fully fledged specialization within criminology: supranational criminology. Supranational criminology entails the study of international crimes, behaviour that shows affinity with these crimes, the causes and ...

La investigación criminal

la psicología aplicada al descubrimiento, captura y condena de los criminales

Los investigadores del crimen del siglo XXI disponen de una nueva arma: la psicología de la investigación criminal, rama de la Psicología al servicio de la criminología forense. En esta obra los profesores y reconocidos especialistas Vicente Garrido y Jorge Sobralpresentan por vez primera en ...

Medios técnicos

Nos encontramos ante un tema cuyo contenido más que un trabajo de descripción circunstanciada de una serie de medios e instrumentos, de los cuales se valen todas las instituciones que integran la organización policial, pretende ofrecer un conocimiento correcto, del material que manejan las FFCCS ...

Witness identification in criminal cases

psychology and practice

Witness Identification provides an up-to-date review on identifying crime perpetrators based on psychological theory and research. Applying psychology to the area of criminal identification, the authors make reference to relevant legislation such as the PACE Codes of Practice as they explore the psychology involved in ...

El horizonte artificial

problemas epistemológicos de la criminología

Profiling

el acto criminal

El homicida forma parte de la humanidad desde los inicios de la vida y tiene sus raíces en las emociones humanas, ya que el amor y el odio conviven dentro de todos nosotros desde que nacemos. Pero no todas las personas llegan a cometer actos ...

Política criminal en vanguardia

inmigración clandestina, terrorismo, criminalidad organizada

El presente libro se abordan aquellos campos de la política criminal que están a la vanguardia -es decir, que muestran características especialmente paradigmáticas- de la actual espiral de transformaciones que sufren los ordenamientos jurídico-penales de Occidente: diversas manifestaciones de las organizaciones criminales, los delitos de ...

Sex, violence and crime

Foucault and the "Man" Question

What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men's violence against women the subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways ...

The investigation of crime

The field of criminal investigation is constantly evolving based upon developments in technology and many other factors. Many crimes require specialized skills and procedures and author William T. Forbes guides the reader through many of those skills as he covers specific crimes including their unique ...

Women, crime and social harm

towards a criminology for the Global Era

Eds. Maureen Cain, Adrian Howe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book is by and about women. The book examines the harms and crimes to which women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to take control of their own futures.

Criminalising social policy

anti-social behaviour and welfare in a de-civilised society

Recent legislative and policy developments in contemporary Britain have ushered in a new approach to criminal justice. The focus on criminal dispositions and welfarism has given way to a strategy which now involves the management of social exclusion, dysfunctional and anti- social families and situational ...

Drugs and crime

A high proportion of crimes committed are drugs-related, with many offenders reporting drug use prior to the commission of their offence. However, the direct link between drug taking and crime is often less clear than is supposed if only because many of those offenders would ...

Estimates of cost of crime

history, methodologies, and implications

The enormous burden that crime imposes on societies, while intuitively obvious, for a long time eluded measurement. With the emergence and development of quantitative methods in economics and statistics, the exercise of calculating costs of crime became possible, although remains controversial. This book presents the ...

Prevention and youth crime

is early intervention working?

Eds. Maggie Blyth, Enver Soloman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 2008 UK government "Youth Crime Action Plan" emphasises prevention and early intervention in different aspects of work with young people who offend or are considered to be 'at risk' of offending. Much of this approach includes targeted work with ...

Estudios de criminología III

Coords. Cristina Rechea Alberola, Raquel Bartolomé Gutiérrez, Mª José Benítez Jiménez. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Estudios de Criminología III continúa la línea iniciada hace quince años por el Centro de Investigación en Criminología de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha de divulgar trabajos criminológicos sobre temas relevantes y actuales que ...

Regulating deviance

the redirection of criminalisation and the futures of criminal Law

The criminal attacks that occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Domestic criminal law has become a vehicle for criminalising 'new' terrorist offences and other transnational forms of criminality ...