Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending. It offers a critical overview of current criminal justice policies and close to 100 years of research on how to best improve these policies through theoretically-grounded and methodologically-rigorous research.Focusing on proactive prevention-oriented strategies, this book revisits popular ideas ...

The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data aregenerated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.This often refers to big data . This book explores big data in organisations operating in thecriminology and criminal justice fields.Big data entails a major disruption in the ways we think about and do things, whichcertainly applies to most organisations including those ...