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Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice by Robert M. Bohm
RRP: $113.38$98.49From myths about crime and punishment to dangerous misunderstandings about the administration of justice, Demystifying Crime and Criminal Justice, Second Edition, exposes--and aims to correct--many of the American public's misconceptions about the... -
Juvenile Justice: An Introduction by John T. Whitehead
RRP: $178.48$155.09Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Tenth Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency. Whitehead and Lab offer evidence-based suggestions for... -
Power Played: A Critical Criminology of Sport by Derek Silva
RRP: $155.40$136.19This innovative collection argues that modern sport can be characterized by problematic power relations linked to violence, harm, deviance, and punishment. On the one hand, sport is a mainstay of community building, an expression of solidarity, and a... -
Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade by R. V. Gundur
RRP: $67.20$59.24Trying to Make It is R. V. Gundur's journey from the US-Mexico border to America's heartland, from America's prisons to its streets, in search of the true story of the drug trade and the people who participate in it. The book begins in the Paso del Norte... -
Welfare and Punishment: From Thatcherism to Austerity Ian Cummins (University of Salford) 9781529203936
RRP: $56.68$43.76In this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher's first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the ideological shifts that have led successive governments... -
Trauma and Dissociation in Convicted Offenders: Gender, Science, and Treatment Issues by Kathryn Quina
RRP: $83.98$73.63Better understand the men and women most affected by trauma in our society Convicted offenders quite often are found to have a history of trauma. Trauma and Dissociation in Convicted Offenders: Gender, Science, and Treatment Issues provides a... -
Stop and Search: Police Power in Global Context Leanne Weber (Monash University, Australia) 9781138944107
RRP: $96.58$84.27Police powers to stop, question and search people in public places, and the way these powers are exercised, is a contentious aspect of police-community relations, and a key issue for criminological and policing scholarship, and for public debate about... -
An Introduction to Criminology by W. A. Bonger
RRP: $79.78$70.10This book, first published in 1936, provides an introduction to the various branches of criminology, including criminal psychology and criminology as an applied science. This title also provides an overview of some of the different criminological schools... -
Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe Gaetan Cliquennois 9781138688063
RRP: $283.50$247.13The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies. This is particularly the case for prisons and other penal institutions, as international bodies and the... -
Asylum Seeking and the Global City Francesco Vecchio 9781138687721
RRP: $104.98$91.35Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security. Based on extensive, original... -
Realist Evaluation for Crime Science: Essays in Honour of Nick Tilley Graham Farrell (University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK) 9781138647244
RRP: $283.50$246.29This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation. With contributions from... -
Measuring Crime and Criminality by John MacDonald
RRP: $92.38$81.56Measuring Crime and Criminality focuses on how different approaches to measuring crime and criminality are used to test existing criminological theories. Each chapter reviews a key approach for measuring criminal behavior and discusses its strengths or... -
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology by Anthony Walsh
RRP: $283.50$247.13Some 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... -
Reconstructing Restorative Justice Philosophy Theo Gavrielides 9781138250383
RRP: $113.38$98.43This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various... -
Human Smuggling and Border Crossings Gabriella Sanchez 9781138230873
RRP: $113.38$98.43Graphic narratives of tragedies involving the journeys of irregular migrants trying to reach destinations in the global north are common in the media and are blamed almost invariably on human smuggling facilitators, described as rapacious members of... -
Torture as State Crime: A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer by Melanie Collard
RRP: $283.50$246.29Can we understand torture by focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded? This is the central question of this book which explores concepts... -
Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact Denise Johnston 9781138183223
RRP: $104.98$91.35Parental Incarceration makes available personal stories by adults who have had the childhood experience of parental incarceration. These stories help readers better understand the complex circumstances that influence these children's health and... -
The Development of Transnational Policing: Past, Present and Future John McDaniel 9781138488779
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book draws together the insights of eminent academics and specialists to present an overview of past and present approaches to transnational policing throughout the Anglophone world. It aims to revitalize the study of transnational policing by... -
The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe by Dirk Tanzler
RRP: $92.38$81.56The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corruption. The approach of social constructivism taken in this volume is able to reconstruct the 'construction... -
Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times by Ricardo Donato Salvatore
RRP: $54.58$48.07Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people... -
Prison, Inc.: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison by K. C. Carceral
RRP: $52.48$45.51Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a... -
The Color of Crime (Second Edition): Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions by Katheryn Russell-Brown
RRP: $50.38$40.30A lucid and forceful volume that explores the tacit and subtle ways the American justice system links deviance to people of color When The Color of Crime was first published ten years ago, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now,... -
Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience by Jarret S. Lovell
RRP: $50.38$43.76From animal rights to anti-abortion, from tax resistance to anti-poverty, activists from across the political spectrum often deliberately break the law to further their causes. While not behaviors common to hardened or self-seeking criminals, the staging... -
Crime in the Digital Age: Controlling Telecommunications and Cyberspace Illegalities by Russell Smith
RRP: $92.38$80.72Willie 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... -
Crime and Social Organization by Elin Waring
RRP: $283.50$246.29This tenth volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory series is dedicated to the work of Albert J. Reiss, Jr. It focuses on the relationship between crime and social organization that is so central to his work. This focus rejects a view of crime... -
Understanding Criminal Justice: Sociological Perspectives by Philip D. Smith
RRP: $115.50$93.83'This book traverses an impressive array of topics and problems central to law and criminal justice. Its accessibility, contemporary themes and sensitivity to issues of inequality make it a perfect text for students and teachers of sociology, law,... -
Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions by Richard Wortley
RRP: $189.00$161.89This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime prevention in community settings, Richard Wortley argues that the same principles can be used to... -
Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform by Ronald Weitzer
RRP: $52.48$44.48Race and Policing in America is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on racial differences. It utilizes both the authors' own research and other studies to examine Americans' opinions, preferences, and personal experiences regarding... -
Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters by Christopher D. Bader
RRP: $63.00$48.91Deviance Management examines how individuals and subcultures manage the stigma of being labeled socially deviant. Exploring high-tension religious groups, white power movements, paranormal subcultures, LGBTQ groups, drifters, recreational drug and... -
Release from Prison: European Policy and Practice by Nicola Padfield
RRP: $113.38$99.27Release from prison is matter of increasing interest throughout Europe. On the one hand, arguments about the need to reduce prison numbers, as well the consistent findings that prisoners can be integrated into society more effectively if they are subject... -
Protecting the Public?: Executive Discretion and the Release of Mentally Disordered Offenders by Tessa Boyd-Caine
RRP: $92.38$80.72The separation of powers and independent, judicial decision-making are generally accepted as hallmarks of the rule of law in democratic societies. Yet the exercise of executive discretion remains an important aspect of criminal justice in many areas... -
Prison Violence: Conflict, power and vicitmization Kimmett Edgar 9780415627948
RRP: $113.38$98.43Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving conflicts... -
No Way of Knowing: Crime, Urban Legends and the Internet by Pamela Donovan
RRP: $283.50$246.29Examining "old media" treatment of crime legends: news reports, fictional film and television depictions, and "new media" interactive discussions: versions and discussions circulating in Internet newsgroups and via electronic mail... -
Making People Pay by Paul Rock
RRP: $79.78$70.10First published in 1973, this book offers a fascinating and systematic description of the debt-collection process in 1970s England. Basing his research on the words of creditors, debtors, solicitors and debt-collectors, Paul Rock's research was conducted... -
Terror: Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives by Mark P. Worrell
RRP: $75.58$66.55About the Series The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today's social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60-page-or-shorter formats, and available for view on... -
Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife by Geoffrey Hunt
RRP: $283.50$246.29Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ's and promoters, Hunt, Moloney, and Evans examine the different... -
Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture Rosie White 9780415370783
RRP: $104.98$91.35The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and... -
Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law Alison Young 9780415301848
RRP: $100.78$87.80Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging... -
Routledge Handbook on Offenders with Special Needs Kimberly D. Dodson (University of Houston-Clear Lake) 9780367819156
RRP: $96.58$84.27Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.2 million people are incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities across the United States. There are another 5 million under community correctional supervision. Many of these... -
Policing Across Organisational Boundaries: Developments in Theory and Practice by Benoit Dupont
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book promotes new theoretical frameworks and research questions that seek to advance knowledge of policing across internal and external organisational boundaries, specifically at the structural level of analysis. It addresses police theory, policy...