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Environment and Behavior eBook Series

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  • The Environmental Psychology of Prisons and Jails

    Creating Humane Spaces in Secure Settings

    by Richard E. Wener ...
    Series series Environment and Behavior
    This book distils thirty years of research on the impacts of jail and prison environments. The research program began with evaluations of new jails that were created by the US Bureau of Prisons, which had a novel design intended to provide a non-traditional and safe environment for pre-trial inmates and documented the stunning success of these jails in reducing tension and violence. This book uses ... Read more

    34,55 €

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  • Introduction to Forensic Psychology

    Court, Law Enforcement, and Correctional Practices

    by Stacey L. Shipley, Bruce A. Arrigo ...
    Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Third Edition, has been completely restructured to explain in greater detail how courses on forensic psychology are taught, making it more applicable as a textbook than previous editions. It also features more figures, tables and text boxes, making it a true textbook. What this book has that others do not is equal representation of criminal behavior, the court ... Read more

    41,44 €

  • Mothers Who Kill Their Children

    Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the "Prom Mom"

    by Cheryl L Meyer, Michelle Oberman, Kelly White, Michelle Rone ...
    An inside look into patterns and potential prevention plans for one of the most hotly sensationalized crimesA special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately ... Read more

    20,87 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology

    Edited by Jennifer M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Campbell ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Forensic psychology has developed and extended from an original, narrow focus on presenting evidence to the courts to a wider application across the whole span of civil and criminal justice, which includes dealing with suspects, offenders, victims, witnesses, defendants, litigants and justice professionals. This Handbook provides an encyclopedic-style source regarding the major concerns in ... Read more

    69,00 €

  • Parental Incarceration and the Family

    Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers

    by Joyce A. Arditti ...
    SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 ... Read more

    24,37 €

  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to ... Read more

    63,16 €

  • Criminal Justice at the Crossroads

    Transforming Crime and Punishment

    by William Kelly ...
    Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers ... Read more

    32,85 €

  • Career Criminals in Society

    by Matt DeLisi ...
    More than a century of scientific research has indicated that the majority of crime that occurs in society is committed by a small percentage of the population, meaning that most criminals are repeat offenders, or "career criminals." If societies devoted considerable resources toward preventing and neutralizing career criminals, there would be dramatic reductions in crime, the fear of crime, and ... Read more

    64,54 €

  • The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence

    by Carlos A. Cuevas, Callie Marie Rennison ...
    The Wiley Handbook on the Psychology of Violence features a collection of original readings, from an international cast of experts, that explore all major issues relating to the psychology of violence and aggressive behaviors.Features original contributions from an interdisciplinary cast of scholars - leading experts in their fields of studyIncludes the latest violence research – and its ... Read more

    137,99 €

  • Feminist Theories: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Claire M. Renzetti ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • Police-Community Relations: Bridging the Gap

    by Wayne L. Davis PH.D. ...
    This book provides an overview of police-community relations. First, this book examines elderly people and some of their concerns. To best serve the public, the police must understand the concerns of the public. Second, this book discusses various criminal theories and their limitations. Theories are effective for understanding problems and for solving the problems. However, every theory has a ... Read more

    4,95 €

  • Working with Female Offenders

    A Gender-Sensitive Approach

    by Katherine van Wormer ...
    Praise for Working with Female Offenders"Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working with girl and women offenders." —Meda Chesney-Lind, Professor, Women's Studies University of Hawaii at Manoa"In this timely and thoughtful book, van Wormer provides a gender-sensitive ... Read more

    50,99 €