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Punishment in Contemporary China: Its Evolution, Development and Change by Enshen Li
RRP: €49.97€43.73Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so. This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment in the Maoist (1949-1977), reform (1978-2001) and post-reform eras (2002-) of... -
Fear, Society, and the Police Dale L. June (National University, Los Angeles, California, USA) 9780367246112
RRP: €59.49€51.77Fear, Society, and the Police examines elements of fear and how they can be controlled and turned into an effective and proper response in an emergency situation. Readers of this book will be exposed to ways fear can become an uncontrolled emotion, often... -
Women's Transitions from Prison: The Post-Release Experience Rosemary Sheehan 9780367227241
RRP: €52.35€45.74Women continue to be one of the fastest growing groups of offenders with an increasing group of women involved in the criminal justice system around the world. Whilst internationally women comprise a low percentage of the total prison population, there... -
Young Offenders and Open Custody Tove Pettersson 9780367226268
RRP: €52.35€45.74Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into... -
Key Terms and Concepts for Investigation: A Reference for Criminal, Private, and Military Investigators by John J. Fay
RRP: €64.25€56.25Key Terms and Concepts for Investigation provides students and practitioners with a compilation of concise, accurate articles on major topics pertaining to criminal, private, and military investigations. Each entry in this reference features a definition... -
Enforcing Freedom: Drug Courts, Therapeutic Communities, and the Intimacies of the State by Kerwin Kaye
RRP: €35.70€27.72In 1989, the first drug-treatment court was established in Florida, inaugurating an era of state-supervised rehabilitation. Such courts have frequently been seen as a humane alternative to incarceration and the war on drugs. Enforcing Freedom offers an... -
Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View Peter K. B. St. Jean 9780226774992
RRP: €38.08€37.02Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for... -
Women's Prison: Sex and Social Structure by David A. Ward
RRP: €52.35€45.74A 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... -
White-collar Criminal: The Offender in Business and the Professions by Gilbert Geis
RRP: €52.35€46.22In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society that were considered "normal,"... -
Essentials of Research Methods for Criminal Justice by Frank E. Hagan
RRP: €141.03€125.79Adapted from the best-selling Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology, ESSENTIALS OF RESEARCH METHODS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE, 3/e teaches general research methods using standard and contemporary examples of criminal justice and criminology... -
Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit by Wendy Laverick
RRP: €130.89€117.49This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices. It examines factors that have underpinned the emergence and occurrence of racial and religious hate crime and the approaches and... -
Offenders on Offending: Learning about Crime from Criminals Wim Bernasco 9781843927761
RRP: €59.49€51.77Our knowledge of crime is based on three types of sources: the criminal justice system, victims, and offenders. For technological and other reasons the criminal justice system produces an increasing stream of information on crime. The rise of the... -
Crime Reduction and Community Safety Daniel Gilling 9781843922513
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy, it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts... -
After Crime and Punishment by Shadd Maruna
RRP: €160.65€140.04The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems... -
State Crime by Mr. Alan Doig
RRP: €52.35€45.74This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK. The use of crime by the UK to achieve its policy and political objectives is an underdeveloped aspect of academic study of individual and institutional criminality,... -
Convenience Triangle in White-Collar Crime: Case Studies of Fraud Examinations by Petter Gottschalk
€125.68Studies have shown that the number of individuals being incarcerated for white-collar crime is on the rise, going hand-in-hand with an increase in support for punishment and imprisonment for white-collar offenders among the public. This book aims to... -
Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites by Teresa Bergman
RRP: €47.59€41.72American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America-but they are also contested and reshaped by visitors and their engagement with those places. In Exhibiting Patriotism, Bergman analyzes exhibits,... -
Visual Criminology Bill McClanahan (Eastern Kentucky University) 9781529207446
RRP: €76.15€58.26From fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology... -
Actor-Network Theory and Crime Studies: Explorations in Science and Technology by Dominique Robert
RRP: €160.65€139.56Developed by Bruno Latour and his collaborators, actor-network theory (ANT) offers crimes studies a worthy intellectual challenge. It requires us to take the performativity turn, consider the role of objects in our analysis and conceptualize all actants... -
Miscarriages of Justice: Causes, Consequences and Remedies by Sam Poyser
RRP: €89.24€68.00Miscarriages of justice occur far more frequently than we realise and have the power to ruin people's lives. It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand them, given significant developments in recent years in law and police codes of... -
An Introduction to Life-Course Criminology by Christoffer Carlsson
RRP: €45.21€36.99Most people engage in crime at some point in their lives, but why does almost everybody stop soon after? And, why do a small number of offenders persist in crime? These two questions constitute the core of the field often known as life-course criminology... -
The War on Terrorism: A Collision of Values, Strategies, and Societies by Thomas A. Johnson
RRP: €124.95€108.60In order to eradicate terrorism, our nation must go beyond merely shoring up military strength. It must also effectively confront the fundamentalist ideology that fuels and supports the terrorists. The War on Terrorism: A Collision of Values, Strategies,... -
Jihadists and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Gary Ackerman
RRP: €160.65€140.75Explores the Nexus Formed When Malevolent Actors Access Malignant Means Written for professionals, academics, and policymakers working at the forefront of counterterrorism efforts, Jihadists and Weapons of Mass Destruction is an authoritative and... -
The Origins of American Criminology: Advances in Criminological Theory by Francis T. Cullen
RRP: €160.65€140.04The Origins of American Criminology is an invaluable resource. Both separately and together, these essays capture the stories behind the invention of criminology's major theoretical perspectives. They preserve information that otherwise would have been... -
Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime Ronald L. Akers 9781412806497
RRP: €53.54€46.74Social learning theory has been called the dominant theory of crime and delinquency in the United States, yet it is often misrepresented. This latest volume in the distinguished Advances in Criminological Theory series explores the impact of this theory... -
Human Trafficking by Marie Segrave
RRP: €103.52€91.08Human trafficking captured the attention of the global community well over a decade ago, inspiring multifarious international, national, regional and local responses. While formally recognized as one of the major threats associated with transnational... -
Restorative Justice for Survivors of Sexual Abuse Angela Marinari (Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services) 9781447357933
RRP: €57.11€44.09Integral to sexual abuse survivors' healing is understanding the nature of their abuse. Drawing on interviews, this book gives a voice to survivors and illuminates how restorative justice processes can meet their justice needs. With a unique focus on... -
Cyber-risk and Youth: Digital Citizenship, Privacy and Surveillance by Michael Adorjan
RRP: €49.97€43.73Cyber-risks are moving targets and societal responses to combat cyber-victimization are often met by the distrust of young people. Drawing on original research, this book explores how young people define, perceive, and experience cyber-risks, how they... -
Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology by James C. Oleson
RRP: €29.75€23.31In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson interrogate the promises of crime science and target our misplaced faith in technology as the solution to criminality. This book deconstructs crime science's most prominent... -
Ladies of Lost Causes Judith Rumgay 9781843922988
RRP: €33.31€29.37In this highly original study, Judith Rumgay evaluates the development of a residential programme for female offenders run by the Griffins Society. The text is unique in that it documents the radical contribution of women philanthropists and... -
Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing by Lesley J. Wood
RRP: €32.12€30.65Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protest, based on a compelling empirical study of police agencies and practices from 1995 until the present. Lesley J. Wood... -
Pursuing Justice: An Introduction to Justice Studies, Second Edition by Margot Hurlbert
RRP: €41.65€34.18Pursuing justice is daunting. It plays out in a variety of contexts -- like the environment, employment, the criminal justice system -- and raises tough issues like racism, gender discrimination and poverty. But ultimately the aim of studying justice is... -
Crime Online Yvonne Jewkes 9781843921974
RRP: €45.21€39.72Crime Online is concerned to explore the dual capacity of the Internet to pervert and to democratize: it offers its users freedom, democracy, and communication with people around the world while at the same time generating anxieties concerning its... -
Experiences of the Sex Industry by Natasha Mulvihill
RRP: €95.20€72.44Using extensive data from a large Home Office project on the sex industry, this anthology presents the individual stories of a diverse range of sex workers and buyers in England and Wales. Natasha Mulvihill foregrounds the voices of those involved in a... -
Violence at Work by Bonnie S. Fisher
RRP: €52.35€45.74Workplace violence has emerged as a growing concern in today's interdependent political economy, and increasing attention is being paid to the phenomenon both by business and in the academic world to identifying its causes and to devise strategies to... -
Narratives of Neglect by Jacqui Karn
RRP: €52.35€45.74This book tells the story of the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it addresses the local governance of security and the ways... -
Youth Violence Prevention by Terrance Taylor
RRP: €115.42€100.02Youth violence is a pressing social concern and this book examines several elements of youth violence prevention. It offers state-of-the-art research on several different topics including: the relationship between bullying offending and victimization;... -
Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations Marcus Felson 9781138668249
RRP: €82.10€72.02Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations takes a unique and intuitive approach to teaching and learning criminology. Avoiding the fragmentation of ideas commonly found in criminology textbooks, Marcus Felson and Mary A. Eckert develop a... -
Blood in the Bank: Social and Legal Aspects of Death at Work by Gary Slapper
RRP: €39.26€34.70First 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... -
Order and Conflict in Public Space Mattias De Backer 9781138499416
RRP: €57.11€49.75Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant negotiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management,...