Author: Günther GrewePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime and criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Games for Criminal Status
Author: Günther GrewePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime and criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Games for Criminal Status
Author: Günther GrewePublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This report develops a game model of criminal development. If social life is understood to be a sequence of encounters which can be analyzed as games for social status, then processes leading to criminal status have their parallel in everyday life. The processes leading to criminal status are seen as a sequence of status degradation ceremonies which can be represented as a series of games played by the actor (an offender) with the victim or general public, the police, the prosecutor, and the court. During each of these games, a part of the social reality of criminal behaviour and criminal status is socially simulated. After each game, the actor has a chance to play the subsequent game in the series if he has lost the previous one. A game is lost if the actor's behaviour has been socially constructed as criminal and his status demoted so that in the next game another status degradation is likely. Thus the model that is developed portrays the processes of differential distribution of immunity in society. The model provides a conceptualization of the labelling approach and the principle of marginality (the phenomena of ubiquity, scarcity, and relativity of marginal positions in social groupings).
The Crime Numbers Game
Author: John A. EternoPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1466551704
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited with a dramatic reduction in crime, questions quic
The 100 Greatest MSDOS Games
Author: Tom CrosslandPublisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755424967
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
MS-DOS games encompassed the 1980s and 1990s and are regarded to be a golden era for home gaming. How could it not be a golden era with games like Doom, Quake, The Secret of Monkey Island, Star Wars: X-Wing, and so on? The DOS era left behind enough happy gaming memories to last a lifetime. So let's go ahead now and explore the 100 greatest games of the beloved DOS era!
The Data Game
Author: Mark MaierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317457552
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book introduces students to the collection, uses, and interpretation of statistical data in the social sciences. It would suit all social science introductory statistics and research methods courses. Separate chapters are devoted to data in the fields of demography, housing, health, education, crime, the economy, wealth, income, poverty, labor, business statistics, and public opinion polling, with a concluding chapter devoted to the common problem of ambiguity. Each chapter includes multiple case studies illustrating the controversies, overview of data sources including web sites, chapter summary and a set of case study questions designed to stimulate further thought.
Game
Author: Anders de la MottePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476794456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
After a night out partying, a slacker finds a cell phone on a train and begins receiving text messages inviting him to play a game where participants rate videos of pranks and criminal acts that eventually start merging into the real world.
The Eternal Criminal Record
Author: James B. JacobsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067496716X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person’s interactions with just about everyone else. The Eternal Criminal Record makes transparent a pervasive system of police databases and identity screening that has become a routine feature of American life. The United States is unique in making criminal information easy to obtain by employers, landlords, neighbors, even cyberstalkers. Its nationally integrated rap-sheet system is second to none as an effective law enforcement tool, but it has also facilitated the transfer of ever more sensitive information into the public domain. While there are good reasons for a person’s criminal past to be public knowledge, records of arrests that fail to result in convictions are of questionable benefit. Simply by placing someone under arrest, a police officer has the power to tag a person with a legal history that effectively incriminates him or her for life. In James Jacobs’s view, law-abiding citizens have a right to know when individuals in their community or workplace represent a potential threat. But convicted persons have rights, too. Jacobs closely examines the problems created by erroneous record keeping, critiques the way the records of individuals who go years without a new conviction are expunged, and proposes strategies for eliminating discrimination based on criminal history, such as certifying the records of those who have demonstrated their rehabilitation.
The People's Game
Author: Alan McDougallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139992953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Sport in East Germany is commonly associated with the systematic doping that helped to make the country an Olympic superpower. Football played little part in this controversial story. Yet, as a hugely popular activity that was deeply entwined in the social fabric, it exerted an influence that few institutions or pursuits could match. The People's Game examines the history of football from the interrelated perspectives of star players, fans, and ordinary citizens who played for fun. Using archival sources and interviews, it reveals football's fluid role in preserving and challenging communist hegemony. By repeatedly emphasising that GDR football was part of an international story, for example, through analysis of the 1974 World Cup finals, Alan McDougall shows how sport transcended the Iron Curtain. Through a study of the mass protests against the Stasi team, BFC, during the 1980s, he reveals football's role in foreshadowing the downfall of communism.
The Big Game
Author: David M. WolfPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1637644086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Big Game By: David M. Wolf Through a clever scheme, they took five million dollars by force from an armored truck. Years after the heist, neither the money nor the culprits have been found. But the money can’t stay hidden forever, especially when more and more players join the chase. In a story about greed and the lengths to which people will go to satiate it, tenuous alliances are formed, and traps are set. With a disbarred lawyer investigating, the quest for the money involves an intricate web of characters, some united by their past, and most consumed by their lust for money.
Author: Bud Allen