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  • Systematic Social Observation of the Police in the 21st Century

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book on systematic social observation (SSO) methodology provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for researchers on using the method. It identifies varieties of approaches and uses of SSO, the different steps used when performing SSO, and the benefits and challenges associated with using SSO.The chapters discuss different aspects related to SSO, such as:Access to the field or footageEthics, ... Read more

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  • Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy

    Neighborhoods and Crime in Miami

    Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their local community. This concept is one of several forms of formal and informal social control that predict the overall functioning of a community. In this book, the authors examine collective efficacy and crime in eight Miami-Dade County, Florida ... Read more

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    Understanding the importance of cultural predisposition could create a firmer foundation for the application of situational leadership on a global basis. European, Asian, Latin American, Middle-Eastern (Arab) and African leadership models are often different from that of the United States, though they share some common foundational principles. Within the context of globalization and the current ... Read more

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  • The Human Factor of Cybercrime

    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal justice personnel. As a result, human decision-making plays a substantial role in the course of an ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

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  • Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology

    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or ... Read more

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  • Human-Centered Data Science

    An Introduction

    Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the ... Read more

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  • Cybercrime

    The Psychology of Online Offenders

    Cybercrime is a growing problem in the modern world. Despite the many advantages of computers, they have spawned a number of crimes, such as hacking and virus writing, and made other crimes more prevalent and easier to commit, including music piracy, identity theft and child sex offences. Understanding the psychology behind these crimes helps to determine what motivates and characterises offenders ... Read more

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  • Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation

    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    We are living in a cyber society. Mobile devices, social media, the Internet, crime cameras, and other diverse sources can be pulled together to form massive datasets, known as big data, which make it possible to learn things we could not begin to comprehend otherwise. While private companies are using this macroscopic tool, policy-makers and evaluators have been slower to adopt big data to make ... Read more

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