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Community and the Problem of Crime by Karen Evans 9781032162546
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book offers a useful theoretical overview of key approaches to the subject of crime and community and considers the ways in which these have been applied in more practical settings. Written by an expert in the field and drawing on a range of... -
Communalism and the Pursuit of Democracy: A Reflection on the Eradication of Racialism and Promoting Social Harmony by Chee-Beng Tan 9783031362385
RRP: €41.64€37.83This Palgrave Pivot examines why racialism is so persistent and the challenges it poses to the functioning of democracy and the attainment of national integration. It introduces an evolutionary psychology framework, which explains human innate potential... -
Food Crime: An Introduction to Deviance in the Food Industry by Matthew Robinson 9781032280455
RRP: €44.02€39.19• Provides a comprehensive look at the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system. • Helps frame the discussion of food deviance and crime and advocates the concept of “food criminology” as a topic of study. • Is... -
Becoming Deviant by David Matza 9781138519282
RRP: €160.65€139.56Becoming Deviant describes a process by which people move from an affinity for certain prohibited behaviors to full-blown deviance. This process includes affiliation with circles and settings that include or sponsor offenses, followed by understanding... -
Advanced Introduction to Victimology by Sandra Walklate 9781802208290
€103.07Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid... -
Cybercrime During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Evolutions, Adaptations, Consequences by Daniel Ventre 9781786308016
RRP: €157.08€135.91The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had an undeniable impact on cybercrime. The initial crisis quickly became a global catastrophe with multiple consequences in economics, health, and political and social fields. This book explores how this global emergency has... -
The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide: A Crying Baby and the Inability to Escape Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA) 9781787433281
RRP: €34.50€28.62Almost every story of maternal infanticide starts with 'the baby wouldn't stop crying'. But the story is more than' just bad or mentally ill mothers who lethally assault their baby. The story is about how hard it is to be a good mother in a society where... -
History of Policing, Crime, Disorder, Punishment Peter Joyce 9783031368912
RRP: €53.54€45.83This engaging textbook provides a broad and unique coverage of the key historical events that shaped ideas in criminology, criminal justice and policing from the late seventeenth century to the early twenty-first century in England and Wales. It vividly... -
Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser by Francis T. Cullen 9780367599201
RRP: €47.59€41.72This volume is divided into five sections that, when taken together, offer an informative account of the impact of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's Social Sources of Delinquency on the development of American criminological thought. This classic book was her... -
Convictions Without Truth: The Incompatibility of Science and Law by Robert Schehr 9781032208725
RRP: €23.79€21.05Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthfully generates individualization through application of forensic testimony for charges relating to... -
The Prisoner's Release: A Study of the Employment of Ex-Prisoners by Keith Soothill 9781032572284
€133.29For well over one hundred years society had considered ways of helping prisoners on their release from prison, but there had been no serious attempt to assess in a scientific manner the value of such efforts. Originally published in 1974, this book broke... -
Prison Crisis by Peter Evans 9781032563954
€105.43‘So far we have successfully avoided loss of life during serious disturbances but if the present trend continues there will be a serious loss of control… In such circumstances there is a probability of both staff and prisoners being killed.’ This... -
Emotions, Decision-Making and Mass Atrocities: Through the Lens of the Macro-Micro Integrated Theoretical Model by Olaoluwa Olusanya 9780367600655
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book rehumanizes perpetrators of mass atrocities. At present a victim/perpetrator dichotomy appears to be the dominant paradigm: perpetrators have either been ’mechanistically dehumanized’, that is, perceived as unemotional, hard-hearted and... -
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology by Anthony Walsh 9780367524791
RRP: €47.59€41.72Some of the brightest minds in criminology who were nurtured on the strictly environmentalist paradigm of the 20th century have declared that biosocial criminology is the paradigm for the 21st century. This book attempts to unite this ever-growing field... -
Cross-Border Police Collaboration: Building Communities of Practice in the Baltic Sea Area by Sophia Yakhlef 9780367536619
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book focuses on a border police collaboration project in the Baltic Sea area aiming at fighting cross-border crimes. It deals with the challenges that inherently "suspicious" organizations face when forced to work together. The study offers unique... -
CCTV: A Technology Under the Radar? by Inga Kroener 9780367600686
RRP: €47.59€41.72Central state and non-covert surveillance began in earnest at the start of the twentieth century. By the start of the twenty-first century, the UK was one of the most surveilled societies on earth. This groundbreaking volume by Inga Kroener analyses the... -
Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence by Valerie Jenness 9780202306025
RRP: €52.35€45.74Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have "hate crimes" only recently become recognized as a serious social problem, especially in the United States? This book... -
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective by Michael L. Benson 9780367774899
RRP: €65.44€56.79Approaches white-collar crime from a coherent theoretical perspective, critiquing the roles of socioeconomic class, gender, ethnicity, and race, and analyzing the latest case studies from around the world, like the new forms of fraud emerging in the wake... -
Disaster Victim Identification: A Manager's Guide to Policy and Procedure by Jay H. Levinson 9781032385037
RRP: €65.44€56.79Provides procedural guidelines, based on international best practice, utilizing real-world case studies to ground theory to practicePresents DVI concepts and processing within the overall framework of response—as an integrated piece of the overall... -
Collaboration and Innovation in Criminal Justice: An Activity Theory Alternative to Offender Rehabilitation by Paulo Rocha 9781032033372
RRP: €23.79€21.05• emphasis on collaboration, co-creative innovation and organisational development.• discussion on academic/practitioner relations. • offers practical means of applying my discussion to real-world practice and research as well as means of... -
Policing Child Sexual Abuse: Failure, Corruption and Reform in Queensland by Paul Bleakley 9781032038988
RRP: €47.59€41.72Policing Child Sexual Abuse provides a historical overview of the evolution of policing child sexual abuse in Queensland, tracing a legacy of failure (even corruption) in the decades leading up to the foundation of Taskforce Argos, a branch of the... -
Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements Tim Prenzler 9781032251585
RRP: €61.87€53.78Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is an edited collection focused on current challenges, innovations and positive achievements in gender integration in policing in different subject domains and locations. Comprised of essays by... -
Mafia, Deviant Masons and Corruption: Shifty Brotherhoods in Italy by Anna Sergi 9781032117881
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book is the first to consider the intersection between mafia power and deviant masonic lodges within the political sphere of the contemporary Italian state. At its core, it offers an analysis of the shifting interactions across powerful actors and... -
Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation by Matt Tidmarsh 9780367621940
RRP: €47.59€41.721. This book links two literatures across sociology and criminology: probation and the sociology of the professions. 2. As an ethnographic study, this book offers a unique perspective of contemporary probation in England and Wales. 3. It will be useful... -
Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability Malleability Thesis by Esmorie Miller 9781032195575
RRP: €47.59€41.72Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England. The book links... -
Triangle of Death: The Inside Story of the Triads – The Chinese Mafia by Frank Robertson 9781032601250
€105.43Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads. It looks at the Triads active in Hong Kong, the Golden Triangle and Amsterdam, and shows how these groups... -
Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India: A Study on Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 by Atul Jaybhaye 9781032544731
RRP: €160.65€139.56Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyzes the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in India. The book compares the juvenile justice systems of the United States, the United Kingdom and China with India to identify causes of... -
Unsettling Colonial Automobilities: Criminalisation and Contested Sovereignties by Thalia Anthony 9781800710832
RRP: €95.20€79.27Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility that reclaims sovereignty over place and centricity. Based on extensive fieldwork within First Nations... -
Punishment, Probation and Parole: Mapping out ‘Mass Supervision’ in International Contexts by Katharina Maier 9781837531950
RRP: €95.20€79.27In many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common sanctions used in the punishment of criminalized individuals. Despite the widespread use of community-based penalties, these forms of... -
When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age by Anna Gjika 9780520391031
RRP: €84.49€65.51Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna... -
Forensic Law Casebook: Judicial Reasoning and the Application of Forensic Science in Criminal Cases by Charles P. Nemeth 9781032211749
RRP: €85.67€75.03While there are several texts that focus on forensic science techniques and applications, there are few to no quality books that adequately address the judicial interpretation of forensic legal and scientific principles. The field of forensic science and... -
Desistance from Sexual Offending: The Role of Circles of Support and Accountability Kelly Richards 9780367646257
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of the public. Media coverage often provokes further panic, casting such offenders... -
Handbook on Pretrial Justice Christine S. Scott-Hayward 9780367712204
RRP: €52.35€45.74The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release. Often overlooked, the decisions made at the earliest phases of the criminal legal system have huge implications... -
Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives by Helena Machado 9780367521417
RRP: €47.59€41.72Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control presents a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding trends of genetic surveillance in different countries in Europe and in other jurisdictions around the world. The use of DNA or genome for... -
Oppressed by Debt: Government and the Justice System as a Creditor of the Poor by Saul Schwartz 9781032162553
RRP: €47.59€41.72• Explores and explains what happens when citizens cannot pay the debts they owe to their governments • Provides insights for students and academics in criminology, sociology, public policy, and economics, as well as policymakers and government officials... -
Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes Elizabeth A. Gurian 9781032101064
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of... -
Youth Violence in Context: An Ecological Routine Activity Framework by Eileen M. Ahlin 9781032100838
RRP: €47.59€41.72Examines how protective and risk factors associated with two distinct types of youth violence - exposure to and engagement in violence - are nested within four layers of the ecological framework Offers a bridge between the literature on exposure to... -
Judging Delinquents: Context and Process in Juvenile Court by Robert M. Emerson 9781138526662
RRP: €160.65€140.04Juvenile court has elicited the interest and criticism of lawyers, social workers, and criminologists, but less attention from sociologists. This book adds to growing sociological literature on the operations of legal institutions. It describes some... -
A Criminology of the Human Species: Setting an Unsettling Tone by Yarin Eski 9783031360916
RRP: €47.59€41.90The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction. It explores the extent to which the human species can be considered deviant in relation to other species of the contemporary... -
Culture, Diversity, and Criminal Justice: Towards Culturally Safe Criminal Justice Systems by Alex Workman 9781032191881
RRP: €148.75€128.35This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states. Moving past a binary concept of diversity that involves only race and gender,...