Delinquency and Drift Revisited

Delinquency and Drift Revisited
Author: Thomas G Blomberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367246501

Fifty years ago, David Matza wrote Delinquency and Drift, challenging the ways people thought about the development of criminals. Today, Delinquency and Drift Revisited reminds criminologists that they ignore Matza's writings at their own intellectual peril. Matza's work shows his insights on a range of core criminological issues, such as: the complex nature of culture and its connection to criminality; the extent to which rule-breakers are truly different from the "rest of us"; the importance of focusing on human agency in understanding the subjective side of offending; the interaction of propensity and peer influences in criminal involvement; the role of the state in signifying individuals as deviant and entrapping them in criminal roles; and the processes that lead offenders to desist from crime. This volume was not written to pay homage to Matza, but to show how his ideas remain relevant to criminology today by continuing to question conventional wisdom, by making us pay attention to realities we have overlooked, and by inspiring us to theorize more innovatively.

Knowledge for Governance

Knowledge for Governance
Author: Johannes Glückler
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2021-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030471500

This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, public administration, political science, sociology, and organization studies provide original theoretical discussions along these interdependencies. Moreover, a variety of empirical chapters on governance issues, ranging from regional and national to global scales and covering case studies in Australia, Europe, Latina America, North America and South Africa demonstrate that geography and space are not only important contexts for governance that affect the contingent outcomes of governance blueprints. Governance also creates spaces. It affects the geographical confines as well as the quality of opportunities and constraints that actors enjoy to establish legitimate and sustainable ways of social and environmental co-existence.

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
Author: Wesley G. Jennings
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1452
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 111851971X

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment provides the most comprehensive reference for a vast number of topics relevant to crime and punishment with a unique focus on the multi/interdisciplinary and international aspects of these topics and historical perspectives on crime and punishment around the world. Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 Comprising nearly 300 entries, this invaluable reference resource serves as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging resource on crime and punishment Offers a global perspective from an international team of leading scholars, including coverage of the strong and rapidly growing body of work on criminology in Europe, Asia, and other areas Acknowledges the overlap of criminology and criminal justice with a number of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, epidemiology, history, economics, and public health, and law Entry topics are organized around 12 core substantive areas: international aspects, multi/interdisciplinary aspects, crime types, corrections, policing, law and justice, research methods, criminological theory, correlates of crime, organizations and institutions (U.S.), victimology, and special populations Organized, authored and Edited by leading scholars, all of whom come to the project with exemplary track records and international standing 3 Volumes www.crimeandpunishmentencyclopedia.com

The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
Author: Benjamin van Rooij
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1559
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108754139

Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms and interventions. This handbook bridges these divides to provide the first one-stop overview of what compliance is, how we can best study it, and the core mechanisms that shape it. Written by leading experts, chapters offer perspectives from across law, regulatory studies, management science, criminology, economics, sociology, and psychology. This volume is the definitive and comprehensive account of compliance.

Piracy in the Digital Era

Piracy in the Digital Era
Author: Sanjeev P. Sahni
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811371733

This book builds an empirical basis towards creating broader prevention and intervention programs in curbing digital piracy. It addresses the psychosocial, cultural and criminological factors associated with digital piracy to construct more efficient problem-solving mechanisms. Digital piracy including online piracy involves illegal copying of copyrighted materials. This practice costs the software industry, entertainment industry, and governments billions of dollars every year. Reports of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Business Software Alliance (BSA) view piracy largely in the light of economic factors; the assumption being that only those who cannot afford legitimate copies of software, music, and movies indulge in it. Drawing on research and theories from various disciplines like psychology, sociology, criminology, and law, the authors have designed an empirical study to understand the contribution of psychological, cultural and criminological factors to digital piracy. The chapters include data from India and China, which continue to be on the Special 301 report priority watch list of the WIPO, and Serbia, which has been on the watch list 4 times. They examine the role of self-control, self-efficacy, perceived punishment severity, awareness about digital piracy, peer influence, neutralization techniques, novelty seeking, pro-industry factors and other socio-demographic factors in predicting digital piracy. This book addresses a large readership, comprising academics and researchers in psychology, criminology and criminal justice, law and intellectual property rights, social sciences, and IT, as well as policymakers, to better understand and deal with the phenomenon of digital piracy.

PNT Pain Neutralization Technique

PNT Pain Neutralization Technique
Author: Gaston Cornu-Labat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2015
Genre: Pain
ISBN: 9780692478684

An estimated 100 million Americans (one third of the total US population) live with daily, chronic pain. This book presents to the public the next generation and most revolutionary, effective, innocuous, non-invasive, and inexpensive treatment for the root causes of chronic pain with no drugs or surgeries. These estimated numbers for the US apply to the rest of the world putting in evidence chronic pain as the number one affliction worldwide, and showing that medicine has little to offer other than very costly containment strategies with drugs -creating an addiction epidemic among many other serious problems- or invasive strategies with surgical and other interventions. If you are one of these millions of people, this is for you. You don't have to live in pain. A revolution, PNT marks the dawn of a new paradigm in the healing arts. Learn about the thousands of people like you going through amazingly simple and profoundly life changing experiences in the hands of the new generation of healing practitioners bringing PNT to the world. Learn what you can do to leave chronic pain behind for good. The discovery of PNT and the expansion of its practice worldwide is one of the most fundamental and significant contributions to the medical sciences in the history of medicine. Let the judge of the significance of this revolution be you, don't just take my words for it.

Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior

Organizational Opportunity and Deviant Behavior
Author: Petter Gottschalk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-12-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788111885

Ever since Sutherland coined the term ‘white-collar crime’, researchers have struggled to understand and explain why some individuals abuse their privileged positions of trust and commit financial crime. This book makes a novel contribution to the development of convenience theory as a framework to understand and explain ‘white-collar crime’.

Corporate Hacking and Technology-driven Crime

Corporate Hacking and Technology-driven Crime
Author: Thomas J. Holt
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1616928077

"This book addresses various aspects of hacking and technology-driven crime, including the ability to understand computer-based threats, identify and examine attack dynamics, and find solutions"--Provided by publisher.