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The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics by Lisa L. Miller 9780190921682
RRP: €29.14€26.30In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries-the US, the UK, and the Netherlands-and explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically salient issue. Drawing from extensive original research, her findings reverse many... -
Canada's Most Wanted by Lisa Wojna 9781926695136
RRP: €17.84€11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926695136Author Lisa WojnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Quagmire Press LtdPublisher Quagmire Press LtdWeight(grams) 258g -
Juvie: Inside Canada's Youth Jails Gordon Cruse 9781894694438
RRP: €19.03€12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694438Author Gordon CruseFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 294g -
Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam's Coffeeshops Scott Jacques 9781787355897
RRP: €23.80€20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355897Author Scott JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 360g -
Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front by Rowland Atkinson 9781784995300
RRP: €95.20€67.46Today's home has become a kind of fortress that says as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life today,... -
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany Richard F. Wetzell 9781782382461
RRP: €127.33€103.02"Overall the volume effectively moves beyond offering a one-dimensional legal history of modern Germany. Rather, the essays treat the history of crime, criminal law, and criminal justice as offering the means to reflect on broader social, cultural,... -
Money and the Governance of Punishment: A Genealogy of the Penal Fine by Patricia Faraldo Cabana 9781138686236
RRP: €160.65€139.56Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions, imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and... -
Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence Carlos A. Arnaldo 9781571812452
RRP: €117.81€95.00Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children through misuse of the media and the Internet are complex yet closely related issues. Not only do they necessitate complex solutions, they also demand a social response from all sectors of society. This... -
Food as a Mechanism of Control and Resistance in Jails and Prisons: Diets of Disrepute by Salvador Jimenez Murguia 9781498573085
RRP: €101.15€88.67Murguia explores food and foodways within institutions of incarceration. Food, like all resources within total institutions, is vulnerable to social manipulation. Within jail and prison settings, food becomes both a mechanism of control and resistance... -
Social Inequality, Criminal Justice, and Race in Tennessee: 1960-2014 by Gerald K. Fosten 9781498559201
RRP: €95.20€83.54This book examines the national criminal justice system's and the state of Tennessee criminal justice system's policies in terms of how they balance the citizens' need for prisons with the private sector's desire for profits and the policies' effects on... -
Deviant Behavior 7e by Edward J. Clarke 9781429205184
€84.63These readings explore the implications of deviance for both the individual and society, examining the responses of society to deviant behaviour and the reasons why certain people violate the social norm. The text probes the deviant categories; the... -
Field Studies in Environmental Criminology by Ben Stickle 9781032146348
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book includes fieldwork from five continents and demonstrates the breadth of techniques used by environmental criminologists to understand crime.Environmental criminologists seek to understand crime within the physical, and even digital, contexts... -
Human Trafficking: Contexts and Connections to Conventional Crime by Joan Reid 9781138652859
RRP: €160.65€139.56Human trafficking involves the violation of societal norms and often activates criminal justice responses including police, courts, juvenile justice, and child protective services. Due to the complex nature of human trafficking, some behaviours that... -
Mothering and Desistance in Re-Entry by Venezia Michalsen 9781138652590
RRP: €160.65€139.56Although there is plentiful research on the impact of marriage, employment and the military on desistance from criminal behaviour in the lives of men, far less is known about the factors most important to women's desistance. Imprisoned women are far more... -
Researching Gender, Violence and Abuse: Theory, Methods, Action by Nicole Westmarland 9781138641259
RRP: €160.65€139.56Feminist research on gender, violence and abuse has been an area of academic study since the late 1970s, and has increased exponentially over this time on a global scale. Although situated in a predominantly qualitative tradition, research in the field... -
Police Integrity in South Africa by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich 9781138639652
RRP: €160.65€139.56Policing in South Africa reached notoriety for its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country's apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new government faced the significant challenge of transforming the... -
The Evolving Role of the Public Prosecutor: Challenges and Innovations by Victoria Colvin 9781138606791
RRP: €160.65€139.56The modern public prosecutor is a figure both powerful and enigmatic. Legal scholars and criminologists often identify "three essential components" of criminal justice systems: police, courts and corrections. Yet increasingly, the public... -
Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans by Monica Massari 9781138606777
RRP: €160.65€140.04Using in-depth field research and analysis of case studies, Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans focuses attention on the phenomenon of violence performed by Italian organised crime groups, devoting... -
Childhood Abused: Protecting Children Against Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment and Punishment by Geraldine Van Bueren 9781138613720
RRP: €142.80€123.77First published in 1998, this book seeks to consider the application of international human rights standards to situations where children are at risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment. Each of the contributors authoritatively examines torture,... -
Blood in the Bank: Social and Legal Aspects of Death at Work by Gary Slapper 9781138611672
RRP: €130.90€113.66First published in 1999, this volume is based upon a detailed empirical study of 40 cases of commercially-related deaths - the first such English study. The cases are taken from 20 towns and cities in England. Slapper critically examines the theory and... -
Governing Delinquency Through Freedom: Control, Rehabilitation and Desistance by Geraldine Bugnon 9781138609334
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility... -
Guns on the Internet: Online Gun Communities, First Amendment Protections, and the Search for Common Ground on Gun Control by Connie Hassett-Walker 9781138598010
RRP: €160.65€139.56Gun rights and control are well-trodden subjects, with prior work supporting the right of citizens to own firearms, discussing the failure of gun control efforts, or warning about or exhorting citizen gun ownership, among other things. Although social... -
Challenging Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: A Game of Moves and Countermoves by Philip B. Heymann 9781138595361
RRP: €64.25€55.78Challenging Organized Crime in the Western Hemisphere: A Game of Moves and Countermoves takes the unusual approach of exploring and describing how organized crime groups develop their capacities in response to heightened powers of law enforcement; and... -
Police Militarization: Understanding the Perspectives of Police Chiefs, Administrators, and Tactical Officers by Scott W. Phillips 9781138591394
RRP: €160.65€139.56The increased militarization of the police in the United States has been a topic of controversy for decades, brought to the public eye in notable events such as the Los Angeles Police Department's use of battering rams in the 1980s and the siege of the... -
Victim Support and the Welfare State by Carina Gallo 9781138584792
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim support. With the majority of research on victim support centering on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for considering the role of the victim in the criminal justice... -
: Case for the Prosecution (1991): Police Suspects and the Construction of Criminality by Mike McConville 9781138565463
RRP: €124.95€108.60Originally published in 1991, The Case for the Prosecution examines the entire process of arrest through to conviction.Book InformationISBN 9781138565463Author Mike McConvilleFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure by Gene Kassebaum 9781138540699
RRP: €160.65€139.56A thoroughly researched pioneering work based on personal interviews with inmates and prison personnel and on data compiled from questionnaires and inmate record files, Women's Prison reveals that homosexual liaisons are the primary foundation of the... -
Islamophobic Hate Crime: A Student Textbook by Imran Awan 9781138552685
RRP: €160.65€139.56In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in anti-Muslim attacks. What is driving the proliferation of these hate crimes? Why are Muslims being demonised? Building on current research and drawing upon real-life examples and case studies, this book... -
The Victim of Rape by Lynda Lytle Holmstrom 9781138539372
RRP: €160.65€140.04This unprecedented in-depth account of how our major institutions respond to the crime of rape is the first empirical study of rape victims in the United States as they come into contact with those who staff our police stations, hospitals, and... -
The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice by Aaron Cicourel 9781138538603
RRP: €160.65€140.04The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice recasts familiar sociological problems of research within a dramatically new and different theoretical and methodological perspective. In seeing law enforcement officers, no less than those accuse of criminal... -
The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime: The Experience of Post-Soviet Ukraine by Jennifer Schrock 9781138537736
RRP: €160.65€139.56Like most former Soviet republics, Ukraine has experienced a formidable proliferation of crime and corruption as it struggles with economic reform and the establishment of democracy.During the early 90s, Ukraine became one of the primary recipients of... -
The Personality of a Child Molester: An Analysis of Dreams by Calvin Hall 9781138537408
RRP: €160.65€139.56The Personality of a Child Molester argues two main points. The first is that dreams, without free associations or amplification or knowledge of the dreamer, can shed considerable light upon the essential character structure, psychodynamics, and... -
The Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime and American Culture by James W. Clarke 9781138536609
RRP: €70.20€61.26Violence has marked relations between blacks and whites in America for nearly four hundred years. In The Lineaments of Wrath, James W. Clarke draws upon behavioral science theory and primary historical evidence to examine and explain its causes and... -
The Legacy of Anomie Theory by Freda Adler 9781138536555
RRP: €142.80€123.30This sixth volume Advances in Criminological Theory is testimony to a resurgent interest in anomie-strain theory, which began in the mid-1980s and continues unabated into the 1990s. Contributors focus on the new body of empirical research and theorizing... -
The Culture of Crime by Boaz Ganor 9781138535015
RRP: €160.65€139.56There is no journalistic work more deserving of the designation "story" than news of crime. From antiquity, the culture of crime has been about the human condition, and whether information comes from Homer, Hollywood, or the city desk, it is a... -
Regulating the Security Industry: Global Perspectives by Mahesh K. Nalla 9781138541702
RRP: €103.52€89.89It is widely acknowledged that the size of the security industry has increased in virtually every country around the world, often eclipsing conventional police forces in personnel numbers and expenditures. Security providers differ from law enforcement... -
Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/critical Criminology and Criminal Justice by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. 9781138521919
RRP: €160.65€139.56Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today's academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past... -
Critique of the Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society by Richard Quinney 9781138521582
RRP: €160.65€139.56Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, he... -
Crime and Punishment in Britain: The Penal System in Theory, Law, and Practice by Russell Smith 9781138521483
RRP: €160.65€140.04This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system defined, accounted for, and disposed of offenders. As an early work in criminology, it focuses on differences between, and... -
Crime in the Digital Age: Controlling Telecommunications and Cyberspace Illegalities by Russell Smith 9781138521490
RRP: €160.65€139.56Willie Sutton, a notorious American bank robber of fifty years ago, was once asked why he persisted in robbing banks. "Because that's where the money is," he is said to have replied. The theory that crime follows opportunity has become...