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Crime and Justice, Volume 49: Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks by Michael Tonry
RRP: £80.00£77.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226708393Author Michael TonryFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Becoming Delinquent: Young Offenders and the Correctional Process by Peter G. Garabedian
RRP: £29.99£26.64This book addresses the social experiences of juvenile offenders in the correctional machinery and the career effects these experiences have on offenders. It follows offenders from apprehension through detention, court appearance, probation and... -
Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence beyond the Law Bruce Jacobs 9780202306483
RRP: £45.99£40.13This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both... -
Crime And Behaviour: An Introduction To Criminal And Forensic Psychology by Majeed Khader
RRP: £110.00£95.26Crime and Behaviour: An Introduction to Criminal and Forensic Psychology is the first textbook to provide a detailed overview of criminal psychology in Singapore. The textbook puts together ideas relating to crime, crime prevention, and criminal... -
Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches Anita Lavorgna 9783030748364
RRP: £49.99£44.97This edited book promotes and facilitates cybercrime research by providing a cutting-edge collection of perspectives on the critical usage of online data across platforms, as well as the implementation of both traditional and innovative analysis methods... -
Gun Trafficking and Violence: From The Global Network to The Local Security Challenge by David Perez Esparza
RRP: £119.99£109.55This edited book addresses the issues of gun trafficking and gun violence across different regions of the world, including the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. It seeks to identify global key trends on gun trafficking and related violence and... -
Captive Images: Race, Crime, Photography by Katherine Biber
RRP: £94.99£82.35Captive Images examines the law's treatment of photographic evidence and uses it to investigate the relationship between law, image and fantasy. Based around the scholarly examination of a bank robbery, in which a surveillance camera captures the robbery... -
State Crime in the Global Age by William J. Chambliss
RRP: £135.00£117.68State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street... -
Criminal Recidivism: Explanation, prediction and prevention Georgia Zara 9781843927068
RRP: £49.99£43.90Criminal Recidivism intends to fill a gap in the criminological psychology literature by examining the processes underlying persistent criminal careers. This book aims to investigate criminal recidivism, and why, how and for how long an individual... -
Crime: Local and Global by John Muncie
RRP: £135.00£117.68Crime: Local and Global and its sister text Criminal Justice: Local and Global are two new teaching texts that aim to equip the reader with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of 'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key... -
Restorative Justice, Self-interest and Responsible Citizenship Lode Walgrave (K.U. University of Leuven, Belgium) 9781843923343
RRP: £43.99£38.44Lode Walgrave has made a highly significant contribution to the worldwide development of the restorative justice movement over the last two decades. This book represents the culmination of his vision for restorative justice. Coming to the subject from a... -
Governing Through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice by Mark J. Findlay
RRP: £43.99£38.44Governing through Globalised Crime provides an analysis of the impact of globalisation of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system. It explores how the perceived increased risk in global security has resulted in a... -
Sex as Crime? by Gayle Letherby
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book brings together chapters by academics, researchers and practitioners to analyse how crimes such as sex work, domestic violence and rape and sexual assault have risen up the Government agenda in recent years. For example, the 'Paying the Price'... -
What Works With Women Offenders by Rosemary Sheehan
RRP: £135.00£117.68The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade, significantly outstripping increases in the number of male prisoners and with particular consequences for minority... -
Workplace Violence Vaughan Bowie 9781843921349
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book examines some of the key issues around violence at work which have emerged in the new millennium, including the events of September 11th 2001 and other terrorist-related incidents, identifying these as an extreme form of workplace violence. It... -
New Directions in Restorative Justice Elizabeth Elliott (Centre for Restorative Justice, Simon Fraser University) 9781843921325
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book addresses a number of key themes and developments in restorative justice, and is based on papers originally presented at the 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice in Vancouver. It is concerned with several new areas of practice... -
Cultures of Commodity Branding by Andrew Bevan
RRP: £43.99£38.44Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in... -
The Culture of Crime by Craig L. LaMay
RRP: £43.99£38.44There 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... -
The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice Aaron Cicourel 9781560007791
RRP: £45.99£40.53The 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... -
Crime Prevention: Programs, Policies, and Practices Steven E. Barkan 9781483375083
RRP: £76.00£70.96In Crime Prevention: Programs, Policies, and Practices, criminologists Steven E. Barkan and Michael Rocque present a well-rounded exploration of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices. Grounded in criminological theory and emphasizing the... -
The Securitization of Society: Crime, Risk, and Social Order by Marc Schuilenburg
RRP: £23.99£20.84Traditionally, security has been the realm of the state and its uniformed police. However, in the last two decades, many actors and agencies, including schools, clubs, housing corporations, hospitals, shopkeepers, insurers, energy suppliers and even... -
Practical Program Evaluation for Criminal Justice Gennaro Vito (University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA) 9781455777709
RRP: £58.99£51.08Practical Program Evaluation for Criminal Justice shows readers how to apply the principles of fiscal responsibility, accountability, and evidence-based practice to criminal justice reform plans. Unlike other policy-based texts, which tend to focus more... -
Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America by John T. Whitehead
RRP: £91.99£80.20Corrections: Exploring Crime, Punishment, and Justice in America provides a thorough introduction to the topic of corrections in America. In addition to providing complete coverage of the history and structure of corrections, it offers a balanced account... -
On Crimes and Punishments by Georg Koopmann
RRP: £135.00£117.28Beccarria's influential Treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundation work in the modern field of criminology. As Newman and Marongiu note in their introduction to the work, three master themes of the Enlightenment run through the... -
Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/critical Criminology and Criminal Justice Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. 9781412807555
RRP: £43.99£38.44Understanding 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... -
Social Development Models of Gang Involvement: Recent Contributions by Marvin D. Krohn
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book-containing contributions from scholars who are well-known for their research on gangs, and selected as experts on the assigned topics-examines youth gangs from a developmental/life-course perspective, exploring a myriad of issues related to... -
Islamophobia in Cyberspace: Hate Crimes Go Viral by Imran Awan
RRP: £39.99£35.06Cyber hate can take many different forms from online material which can lead to actual offline abuse and violence, cyber violence; cyber stalking, and online harassment with the use of visual images, videos, chat rooms, text and social media which are... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Violence Studies by Walter S. DeKeseredy
RRP: £43.99£38.84Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story, and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity,... -
Experiences of Punishment, Abuse and Justice by Women and Families: Volume 2 Natalie Booth (De Montfort University) 9781447363910
RRP: £27.99£21.57The experiences of families of prisoners and gender and justice are growing fields and this book addresses both. It contributes to these fields in new and original ways through the focus on aspects of intersectionality and previously ignored populations... -
Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies Jennifer M. Ortiz (The College of New Jersey) 9780367742140
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics. The book reexamines mainstream definitions of gangs, identifies myths and misconceptions,... -
Minority Ethnic Prisoners and the COVID-19 Lockdown: Issues, Impacts and Implications by Avril Brandon
RRP: £47.99£37.05If prison regimes had continued as normal during the COVID-19 lockdown, social distancing would have been impossible. Therefore, sweeping restrictions were imposed confining prisoners to their cells, cancelling communal activity and prohibiting visits... -
Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender, Race, and Class by Katherine Stuart Van Wormer
RRP: £79.99£69.60This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field. The text features an empowerment approach that is unified by underlying themes of the intersection... -
Contemporary Critical Criminology Walter S. DeKeseredy (West Virginia University, USA) 9780367443894
RRP: £35.99£31.69The concept of critical criminology - that crime and the present-day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society - is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time.Written by an internationally renowned scholar,... -
Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration by Tasseli McKay
RRP: £25.00£19.59A meticulous and exhaustive accounting of the total economic devastation wreaked on Black communities by mass incarceration with an action guide for vital reparations.Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass... -
Criminology: Pearson New International Edition: A Sociological Understanding by Steve E. Barkan
RRP: £63.99£57.89For courses in Introduction to Criminology and Crime and Society. Taking a sociological perspective, this book offers award-winning coverage of criminology and highlights issues of race, ethnicity, gender and social class throughout. Designed in a... -
The Myth of Moral Panics: Sex, Snuff, and Satan Bill Thompson (SUNY Delhi, USA) 9781138952843
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth... -
Prostitution in the Community: Attitudes, Action and Resistance by Sarah Kingston
RRP: £36.99£32.53Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in 'their' neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and... -
Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong Eric Wing Hong Chui 9781138888753
RRP: £47.99£41.81In recent years law, crime and justice have become increasingly politicised in Hong Kong. Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong, 2nd Edition offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of and introduction to the criminal justice system in Hong... -
Crime, Inequality and Power by Eileen B. Leonard
RRP: £53.99£47.27Crime, Inequality and Power challenges the dominant definitions of crime and the criminal through its uniquely comparative approach. In this book Eileen Leonard analyzes multiple forms of criminal behavior in the United States, including violence, sexual... -
Market Criminology: State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry by Ifeanyi Ezeonu
RRP: £135.00£117.28Building on original research into the petroleum industry and on the theory of crimes of globalization, this book introduces the concept of Market Criminology: the criminology of preventable market-generated harms and the criminogenic effects of market...