Verbrechen & Kriminologie

Zwanzig Jahre lang hat Hendrik Simons nichts von seinem Vater in Südafrika gehört. Doch eines Tages steht ein Anwalt vor seiner Tür und berichtet, dass Hendriks Vater in großen Schwierigkeiten steckt. Der Geschäftsmann Anton Terheugen hat unbemerkt große Summen in die Goldminen der Familie Simons investiert. Nun will er Hendriks Halbschwester Lisa heiraten und so die Minen endgültig an sich reißen. Als plötzlich der Anwalt der Familie unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, schleic

This book seeks to understand how women's experiences both within and outside prisons shape their ability to engage in crime-free living after the experience of prison. It uses women's stories to examine their cognitive shifts toward desistance as well as the structural services that may help with the desistance process. It also examines the impacts of addiction and stigma on the desistance processes and develops the theories of desistance. Written by a practitioner, this book includes the vo

Robin Fitzgerald is Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is the Bachelor of Arts Criminology Major Convenor at the School of Social Science. 

Lorana Bartels is Professor of Criminology at the Australian National University (ANU) and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra (UC) 

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2: #Crime: The Theoretical Underpinnings.- Chapter 3: #CSIEffect: How Media Impacts the Criminal Legal System.- Chapter 4: #CrimingWhileWhite: Media’s Construction of the Criminal.- Chapter 5: #Notallmen: Media and Crime Victimization.- Chapter 6: #FutureCrime: What is Crime in the Age of New Media?.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.