Criminology (from Latin crimen, "accusation", and Ancient Greek -λογíα, -logia, from λóγοÇ logos meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour.[citation needed] Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, biologists, social anthropologists, as well as scholars of law. The interests of criminologists include the study of nature of crime and criminals, origins of criminal law, etiology of crime, social reaction to crime, and the functioning of law enforcement agencies and the penal institutions. It can be broadly said that criminology directs its inquiries along three lines: first, it investigates the nature of criminal law and its administration and conditions under which it develops; second, it analyzes the causation of crime and the personality of criminals; and third, it studies the control of crime and the rehabilitation of offenders. Thus, criminology includes within its scope the activities of legislative bodies, law-enforcement agencies, judicial institutions, correctional institutions and educational, private and public social agencies.
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Preface (84 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
A Conservation Criminology-Based Desk Assessment of Vulture Poisoning in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area
- Chapter 2
Defence Against the Dark Artefacts: Smart Home Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Standards
- Chapter 3
The Conceptual Compatibility Between Green Criminology and Human Security: A Proposed Interdisciplinary Framework for Examinations into Green Victimisation
- Chapter 4
Practicing Convict Criminology: Lessons Learned from British Academic Activism
- Chapter 5
Using Basic Neurobiological Measures in Criminological Research
- Chapter 6
A Data-Driven Agent-Based Simulation to Predict Crime Patterns in An Urban Environment
- Chapter 7
Agent-Based Modelling as A Research Tool for Criminological Research
- Chapter 8
Repeat Victimization by Website Defacement: An Empirical Test of Premises from an Environmental Criminology Perspective
- Chapter 9
Law, the State, and the Dialectics of State Crime
- Chapter 10
Situational Crime Prevention and Worldwide Piracy: A Cross-Continent Analysis
- Chapter 11
Introducing Intelligence-Led Conservation: Bridging Crime and Conservation Science
- Chapter 12
Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Cybercriminals: A Longitudinal Analyses of Web Defacements
- Chapter 13
Spatial Video Geonarratives and Health: Case Studies in Post-Disaster Recovery, Crime, Mosquito Control and Tuberculosis in the Homeless
- Chapter 14
Female Adolescent Sexual and Nonsexual Violent Offenders: A Comparison of the Prevalence and Impact of Risk and Protective Factors for General Recidivism
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Stanislaw Piasecki
Master’s degree in law, economics and management and LL.M. Masters of Law, PhD Student, Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Nottingham.
Tanya Wyatt
Department of Social Sciences and Languages, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Flat A, 24 Cloth Market, Newcastle upon Type NE1 1 EE, UK.
Raquel Ros´es
A Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Charlotte Gerritsen
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Penny Green
Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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