Op zondagochtend 17 maart 2002 kreeg de brandweer van het Noord-Brabantse stadje Klundert de melding dat er brand was in een van de rijtjeshuizen op de Eikenlaan. Toen de brandweermannen het huis in gingen, zagen zij dat het overhoop was gehaald. Daarna vonden ze in een van de slaapkamers op de bovenverdieping twee lichamen. Het waren de lichamen van de 23-jarige bewoonster Ona Sileikaite en haar tweejarige dochtertje Adina. Bij de sectie bleek dat Ona en Adina niet door de brand om het leven...

Ondermijning is inmiddels een gevestigd begrip in de misdaadbestrijding. Ondermijnende criminaliteit tast de fundamenten van de open samenleving aan. Het is niet nieuw, al doet de vele publiciteit voor dit fenomeen dat soms wel denken. Ondermijning en de effecten daarvan zijn ook niet altijd goed zichtbaar. Herkenning vergt een zekere mate van bewustwording. De aanpak van ondermijning is niet alleen aan politie en justitie voorbehouden. Veel meer is een integrale aanpak gewenst waarbij alle m...

The social, economic and technological developments of the late modern society have radically changed policing approaches both at national and supranational levels. With the anti-terrorism discourse and the global crises of mobilities, the security needs of citizens is now at the pinnacle of government priorities. At the same time, traditional law enforcement faces an epistemological crisis through the digitalisation and privatization of security. Governments, and especially the police, are e...

Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Second Edition, offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes. Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene evidence, along with the subsequent analysis of that evidence. The use and misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates...

Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.

Extremely student friendly, Healey's STATISTICS: A TOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS, 11e, equips you with a solid understanding of statistical fundamentals and their practical application to current social issues -- no advanced math knowledge required. The text breaks down even the most complex material to help you master key concepts and develop the skills you need as a professional in a social science field -- or simply to become a "statistically literate" consumer of social resea...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender a...

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the pu...

This timely title weighs masculinity's capacity for good against its potential for destruction in the context of contemporary debates on the topic.

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach by Elsie Jones-Smith is for the theories of counseling and psychotherapy course at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This Third Edition, offers an extensive array of theories that includes all the mainstream theories as well as such contemporary approaches as narrative, feminist, LGBT, and post-modern . It offers students an integrative framework with which to assess the various theories with respect to possible clinic...