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This volume contains chapters dealing with a variety of issues related to terrorism and counterterrorism and the study thereof, especially in relation to crime, criminal justice, law, and social control. The book gathers chapters involving a variety of issues and multiple theoretical approaches and methodological orientations. The topics include, amongst others, lone-wolf terrorism, the policing of terrorism, radicalization, suicide terrorism, torture, and counterterrorism policies. The themes of the book remain timely some 15 years after the events of September 11 2001 as evinced from the manifold continuing terrorism-related issues around the world today. This collection will be useful to students and scholars in sociology, criminology, law, political science, and public policy.

Critical criminologists in Germany have been criticized for dealing with desistance research. In the opinion of Peters (in this volume) both perspectives of research are outright incompatible with each other. This critique is based on a certain understanding of the labeling approach that is prevalent in German-language critical criminology. From this perspective, crime is understood exclusively as an attribution. Desistance research is then perceived as a backlash towards an etiological understanding of crime. Peters addresses his critique especially towards the reception of Maruna's work that in Peters' eyes takes crime for "real" (as of a behavioral quality) and supports the hegemonial normative system. As opposed to this, critical criminology and desistance research seem to coexist quite peacefully in international criminology – with Maruna being one of the most prominent proponents of their combination. However, their relation to each other is usually not analysed and discussed. Therefore, Christine Graebsch asked Shadd Maruna for his respective contribution. It resulted in the following conversation.

Online Communities and Social Media -- Stock BBS Factor Model Using Principal Component Score -- How Consumer-Generated Advertising Works: An Empirical Agent-Based Simulation -- Understanding Citizens' Channel Choice of Public Service Delivery: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach -- Cyclical Pattern of the Rise and Fall of an Online Community Due to a Troll -- Economic and Social Networks -- On the Indeterminacy of the Clearing Payment Vectors in Numerical Simulations on Financial Networks -- Three-State Opinion Formation Model on Adaptive Networks and Time to Consensus -- Achieving Consensus with Segregation in Multiple Social Contexts -- Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics -- How Does Overconfidence Affect Asset Pricing, Volatility, and Volume? -- Analyzing the Validity of Passive Investment Strategies Under Financial Constraints -- Macroeconomic Forecasting with Agent-Based Models: Prediction and Simulation of the Impact of Public Policies on SMEs -- Influence of the Corporation Tax Rate on GDP in an Agent-Based Artificial Economic System -- Demographics, Health Care, Linguistics, and Sociology -- Semi-Artificial Models of Populations: Connecting Demography with Agent-Based Modelling -- An Agent-Based Approach for Patient Satisfaction and Collateral Health Effects -- Complex Evolutionary Pathways in Interacting Linguistic Communities -- Socio-Cognitive Influences on Social Stratification -- Participatory Modeling -- A Computational Study of Rule Learning in "Do-It-Yourself Lottery" with Aggregate Information -- Agent-Based Social Simulation as an Aid to Communication Between Stakeholders -- Hybrid Approach of Agent-Based and Gaming Simulations for Stakeholder Accreditation -- Methodology -- When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data? -- Towards Validating a Model of Households and Societies in East Africa -- Social Simulation Comparison in Arbitrary Problem Domains: First Steps Towards a More Principled Approach.

"This book analyses police corruption across four country case studies, exploring how the problem manifests in each country and how it can be reduced. The problem of police corruption ranges from having to pay a bribe to a traffic cop to avoid a speeding fine, right up to more serious forms, such as collusion with organised crime groups and terrorists. The issue therefore constitutes a significant security threat and a human rights issue, but it is often difficult to understand the extent of the problem, and how it varies across contexts. This book analyses the corruption situation in Bulgaria, Germany, Russia and Singapore, identifies similarities and differences across them, and analyses the various means of addressing the problem: punitive, incentivising, technological, administrative, imaging, and the role of civil society. Drawing on existing literature and research, the book also makes extensive use of local sources and original survey data across the four countries. As comparative literature on police corruption remains rare, this book's survey of the situation in two developed states and two post-communist transition states will be of considerable interest to students and researchers across corruption studies, criminology, police studies, and security studies, as well as practitioners working in anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies"--

Le lecteur pourra prendre connaissance dans ces pages des interventions de la table ronde qui s'est tenue lors des journées d'étude organisées par Politix en vue de ce centième numéro. Ses participants ont, à partir de leur expérience propre, réfléchi aux opportunités et aux contraintes qui définissent actuellement l'édition de revues dans les sciences sociales.

Le lecteur pourra prendre connaissance dans ces pages des interventions de la table ronde qui s'est tenue lors des journées d'étude organisées par Politix en vue de ce centième numéro. Ses participants ont, à partir de leur expérience propre, réfléchi aux opportunités et aux contraintes qui définissent actuellement l'édition de revues dans les sciences sociales.

Le lecteur pourra prendre connaissance dans ces pages des interventions de la table ronde qui s'est tenue lors des journées d'étude organisées par Politix en vue de ce centième numéro. Ses participants ont, à partir de leur expérience propre, réfléchi aux opportunités et aux contraintes qui définissent actuellement l'édition de revues dans les sciences sociales.

Le lecteur pourra prendre connaissance dans ces pages des interventions de la table ronde qui s'est tenue lors des journées d'étude organisées par Politix en vue de ce centième numéro. Ses participants ont, à partir de leur expérience propre, réfléchi aux opportunités et aux contraintes qui définissent actuellement l'édition de revues dans les sciences sociales.