Crime And Criminal Justice In Disaster

Author : Dee Wood Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster written by Dee Wood Harper and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster aims to answer two questions: Why do some people take advantage of the disruption that disaster causes and commit crime, and what can be done about it? The second edition of Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster focuses on crime in the wake of recent disasters, including the Haiti and Chile earthquakes, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The authors of the essays in this volume, all talented sociologists, criminologists and law enforcement officials who have had direct experience researching and working in disaster conditions, have updated their original work to investigate the longer term effects that disaster can have on crimes such as rape, fraud and looting. They have also worked to explain the actions criminal justice and other systems can take in the short and longer-term disaster aftermaths to combat and prevent crime. Entirely new essays in this edition focus on hate crime in the aftermath of 9/11 and the role that local NGOs can play in the recovery process. The new additions to the revised edition of Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster help bring us closer to a criminology of disaster and set the stage for new theorizing and research that can help us more fully understand the criminogenic effects of disaster and the best practices for criminal justice and other systems in preventing these effects.

Author : Kelly Frailing
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137469145
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Criminology of Disaster written by Kelly Frailing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime. Although antisocial behaviour in disasters has long been viewed as a rarity, the authors present ample evidence that a variety of crime occurs in the wake of disaster. Frailing and Harper's explorations of property crime, interpersonal violence and fraud during disaster reveal the importance of methodological approaches to understanding these phenomena. They highlight the need for the application of social disorganization, routine activity and general strain theories of crime in the development of disaster crime prevention strategies. An accessible and detailed study, this book will have particular appeal for both students and scholars of criminology, sociology, disaster studies and emergency management.

Author : Jennifer L. Dunn
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202365220
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courting Disaster, intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice written by Jennifer L. Dunn and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer L Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351525549
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courting Disaster written by Jennifer L Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a wide-ranging and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. It explores how it feels and what it means to be stalked by a former intimate and how this situation creates dilemmas for victims and their advocates. What is it like to try to become a "victim" in the eyes of the law and then to remain one, when almost anything a woman does to manage the violent emotions of an ex-husband or ex-boyfriend can backfire and discredit her claims? The author draws upon a broad array of rich data, including a survey of college women, courtroom testimony, prosecutors' case files, interviews with victims and observations in a prosecutor's office and a stalking survivor's support group to illustrate the difficulties women face as they work to cope with danger - and to negotiate the hazardous terrain of legal systems - simultaneously. For some victims, Dunn shows, prosecution processes are more traumatic than the events that brought them to seek legal help and her analysis of the historical, cultural and gendered frameworks in which stalking victimization and prosecution takes place accounts for the additional trauma. Definitions of situations and identities are contested rather than given in these arenas where lives and self-concepts rest in the balance. The ways in which we socially construct and confer meaning upon intimate violence and its victims profoundly shape what happens to ordinary women facing extraordinary circumstances. "Courting Disaster" illuminates what we can learn from their experience, whether we are working in these arenas or theorizing about how they do, and sometimes do not, work.

Author : William J. Stuntz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674051750
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of American Criminal Justice written by William J. Stuntz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors decide whom to punish; most accused never face a jury; policing is inconsistent; plea bargaining is rampant; and draconian sentencing fills prisons with mostly minority defendants. A leading criminal law scholar looks to history for the roots of these problems—and solutions.

Author : Paul S. Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793628009
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. written by Paul S. Adams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors cover topics such as criminal justice, demographics, economics, history, political science, and sociology to show how effects of natural disasters vary by social and economic class in the United States. This volumestudies social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disasters to worsen inequalities in America and offers potential solutions.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Katrina Impact on Crime and the Criminal Justice System in New Orleans written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kitty Calavita
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520219473
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Money Crime written by Kitty Calavita and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-05-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth scrutiny into the American savings and loan financial crisis in the 1980s. The authors come to conclusions about the deliberate nature of this financial fraud and the leniency of the criminal justice system on these 'Gucci-clad white-collar criminals'.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199653712
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief written by Clive Emsley and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century.

Author : Mathieu Deflem
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780529155
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disasters, Hazards and Law written by Mathieu Deflem and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with important social-science issues of law and legal control pertaining to disasters and hazards in a variety of contexts. This title includes: legal controls pertaining to disaster prevention, response, and mitigation; regulations and policies concerning hazardous conditions; and crime and the control thereof in post-disaster situations.