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The World of Crime Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

03.01.2008

Verlag

Sage Publications

Seitenzahl

456

Maße (L/B/H)

24,1/19,6/2,9 cm

Gewicht

910 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4129-5678-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

03.01.2008

Verlag

Sage Publications

Seitenzahl

456

Maße (L/B/H)

24,1/19,6/2,9 cm

Gewicht

910 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4129-5678-9

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The World of Crime
  • Produktbild: The World of Crime
  • PART I. THE CHALLENGE OF MEASURING CRIME INTERNATIONALLY
    Chapter 1. The need of better crime diagnostics
    The uses of international crime statistics
    International crime statistics: the sorry state of the art
    Crime as a social construct
    International crime statistics as controversial knowledge
    Twenty years of thwarted efforts
    ICVS: bringing the bad news
    Breaking the silence
    Summary points/in conclusion
    Chapter 2. Mismeasuring Crime
    International crime figures available
    A crime is a crime ?
    Recording practices of the police
    Reporting patterns
    The breakthrough of crime victimization surveys
    Victim satisfaction and trust levels
    The more recorded crime, the less crime ?
    Police recorded crime and victimization rates compared
    Other uses of police recorded crime statistics
    Police figures as trend indicators
    A moratorium on police figures?
    The political context of crime surveying
    Summary points/in conclusion
    PART II. COMMON CRIMES ACROSS THE WORLD
    Chapter 3. The burden of property crime
    Over all levels of crime
    Five year victimization rates
    Alternative measures of the crime burden
    Victimization by property crime
    Burglary
    Theft and frauds
    Consumer fraud
    Car crimes
    Car theft and joyriding
    Car hijacking
    Robbery
    Kidnapping
    The heavy crime burden of the business sector
    Costs for businesses
    Summary points/ in conclusion
    Chapter 4. Patterns of violent crime
    Homicide
    National homicide rates
    Assault
    Hate crimes in Western Europe
    Sexual assault/ rape
    Violence against women revisited
    Towards further standardization
    Child abuse and the cycle of violence
    Summary points/ in conclusion
    Chapter 5. Determinants of common crimes
    Comparative perspectives
    Urbanization and crime
    Regional patterns and future trends of urbanization
    Demographics and crime
    Future demographic trends
    Affluence and crime
    Mass transportation and crime
    Patterns of vehicle theft at second sight
    More affluence-less crime?
    Development and crime revisited
    Poverty and inequality
    Criminal victimization and gender inequality
    Drugs and alcohol abuse
    Alcohol abuse and violence
    Trends in alcohol consumption
    Availability of guns
    Firearms and violent crime
    Guns and violence in developing countries
    Summary points/in conclusion
    Chapter 6. Global crime trends
    Global trends in common crimes
    European trends in focus
    Trends in police recorded crimes
    Explaining the drop in crime
    Responsive securitization and the drop in crime
    The growing North-South security divide
    Crime and conflict
    Latin America: the price of democracy
    Summary points/in conclusion (part II)
    PART III. EMERGING GLOBAL CRIME THREATS
    Chapter 7. Assessing organized crime
    The new crime threats
    The changing nature of organized crime
    Illicit markets
    Defining organized crime
    Measurement issues
    The alternative of victimization surveys among the business community
    Towards an organized crime perception index
    Other "markers" of organized crime presence
    Instrumental violence
    The organized crime-corruption complex
    Other "markers" of organized crime: money-laundering and the black economy
    Composite organized crime index
    Country scores
    Trends in organized crime
    Participation of national organized crime groups in criminal markets
    Trafficking in persons
    Organized car theft
    The intercorrelates of crime
    Tentative transnational responses
    The US report on trafficking in persons
    Summary points/in conclusion
    Chapter 8. Other global security threats: corruption, terrorism and cyber crime
    Defining corruption
    Corruption indicators : perceptions and experiences
    Assessing the merits of objective and subjective indicator
    Corruption victimizations in the corporate world
    Business crime surveys
    Patterns and trends in terrorist crimes
    The incidence of terrorism
    Correlates of terrorism
    Terrorism and organized crime
    Cyber crime : trends in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) crimes
    Computer-facilitated crime
    No Asian exception
    Computers, organized crime and terrorism
    Summary point/in conclusion: redrawing the global crime map
    PART IV. INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
    Chapter 9. Law enforcement, crime prevention and victim assistance
    Trends in criminal justice resources
    Allocation of resources to law enforcement and criminal justice
    Human resources for police and private security
    Police workloads
    The private security industry
    Trends in private policing
    More police-less crime?
    Homicide conviction rates as performance measure
    Towards a composite index for police performance
    Resources, performance and integrity
    Victim empowerment and support
    Victim reception by the police
    Trends in victim satisfaction
    Victim support services
    Implementing the UN Victims Declaration
    International best practices in crime prevention
    Guidelines for the prevention of crime
    Evidence-based approaches
    Planning and implementation
    Summary points/in conclusion
    Chapter 10. Courts and sentencing
    Judges and magistrates
    Gender balance in the courts
    Perceived independence and integrity of the judiciary
    Towards an international code of conduct for judges
    Public attitudes towards sentencing
    In conclusion
    Chapter 11. Corrections: a global perspective
    Trends in prisoners rates
    National prison populations
    Expanding use of imprisonement
    Interpreting prisoners rates
    Costs and limits of imprisonment
    The search for alternatives
    Benchmarking prisoners rates
    An index of punitiveness
    Summary points/in conclusion
    PART V. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CRIME AND JUSTICE
    Chapter 12. Security, rule of law and sustainable development
    Introductory remarks
    Legal institutions and the level of non-conventional crime
    Rule of law and terrorism
    Trafficking in persons and police performance.
    Good governance and development
    Good governance, development and the rule of crime
    Organized crime as Troian horse
    Vicious crimino-economic circles
    Summary points/in conclusion
    Chapter 13. Crime and justice: the need of global reform
    Diagnosing crime
    A culture of lawfullness
    Country profiles at a glance
    Costs of crime: the global crime bill
    Lawfulness and human development
    The North- South 'security divide'
    The 'justice deficit'
    Security and justice reform first
    The UN Millenium Development Goals
    A more secure world
    Appendix A: Datasources and data
    International Crime Victim Surveys (ICVS)
    Methodology
    Definitions
    Technical note on ICVS data presentation
    The International Crime Business Survey (ICBS)
    The International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS)
    The United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems
    Definition of terms
    Some Other Techincal Matters
    Method for construction of composite indexes
    Method for constructing scatter plots
    Method for constructing bar charts
    Appendix B Data tables
    Index
    References
    Appendix B: Data tables
    Index
    References