PRACTICING FORENSIC CRIMINOLOGY

PRACTICING FORENSIC CRIMINOLOGY

Editorial:
ACADEMIC PRESS
Año de edición:
Materia
Medicina Legal - Medicina Forense
ISBN:
978-0-12-815595-0
Páginas:
300
N. de edición:
1
Idioma:
Inglés
Disponibilidad:
Disponible en 10 días

Descuento:

-5%

Antes:

90,43 €

Despues:

85,91 €

1. Introduction to Practicing Forensic Criminology
2. Criminology on Trial: Science, Law, and the Admissibility of Expert Testimony Criminology
3. Premises Liability for Negligent Security
4. Apartment Security I: Measuring and Analyzing Crime Foreseeability
5. Apartment Security II: Standards of Care and Causation
6. Crime and Business I: Security Litigation Concerning Parking Facilities and Hotels/Motels
7. Crime and Business II: Security Litigation Concerning Shopping Malls and Bars/Taverns
8. Administrative Negligence and the Doctrine of Respondeat Superior
9. Workplace Violence
10. Wrongful Conviction Litigation
11. Forensic Criminology in Police and Corrections Litigation
12. Conclusions and Additional Practice Considerations

• Introduces readers to the impact of evidence-based criminological theory and forensic social science investigations in the legal system
• Demonstrates the usefulness of forensic criminology as a research tool, revealing novel relational dynamics among crime events and the larger socio-spatial context
• Advances the development of a "translational criminology" – i.e., the translation of knowledge from criminological theory and research to forensic practice – as an expedient to forming robust interactive relationships among criminological social scientists and policy makers

Authors
• Kevin Fox Gotham, Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Grants, and Research, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University.
• Daniel Bruce Kennedy, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice and Security Administration, University of Detroit Mercy