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Cultural Practices of Victimhood by Martin Hoondert
RRP: €160.65€139.56Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood. Words such as 'victim' and 'victimhood' represent shifting cultural signifiers, their meaning depending on the cultural context of their usage. Using case studies... -
The Penal Voluntary Sector Philippa Tomczak 9781138500051
RRP: €57.11€49.75Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before in countries around the world. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector... -
Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating theory and research into evidence-based practice by Paula Brough
RRP: €57.11€49.75All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions. This... -
The Role of Community in Restorative Justice by Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt
RRP: €54.73€47.75Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice. While advocates have presented the... -
Transnational Penal Cultures: New perspectives on discipline, punishment and desistance Vivien Miller 9781138288423
RRP: €54.73€47.75Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new... -
Sexual Violence Against Older People by Hannah Bows
RRP: €160.65€139.56Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s. However, the focus of these efforts has centred on younger women, leaving older women largely ignored in research. This book presents data from the first UK study to... -
Edwin H. Sutherland by David O. Friedrichs
RRP: €160.65€139.56Edwin H. Sutherland is widely identified as the single most important and influential criminologist of the twentieth century. He is especially well-known for his path-breaking criminology textbook (first published in 1924), his promotion of a... -
The Use of Force in Criminal Justice by Richard M. Hough
RRP: €52.35€45.74The Use of Force in Criminal Justice addresses the how, why, and when of utilizing force against citizens in a democracy. This is the first true textbook on this topic, offering students and instructors a balanced, research-based approach to... -
The Special Constabulary: Historical Context, International Comparisons and Contemporary Themes Karen Bullock 9781138217256
RRP: €160.65€139.56Special constables are warranted officers retained within British constabularies. Wearing similar uniforms, carrying the same personal protective equipment and holding identical powers to enforce the criminal law, special constables are to all intents... -
State Crime and Civil Activism: On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance Penny Green 9781138189775
RRP: €160.65€139.56State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries - Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of... -
Toward Justice: Broadening the Study of Criminal Justice by Kristi Holsinger
RRP: €70.20€61.26Designed as a text for Criminal Justice and Criminology capstone courses, Toward Justice encourages students to engage critically with conceptions of justice that go beyond the criminal justice system, in order to cultivate a more thorough understanding... -
Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm: Rights, Regulation, and Injustice in the Canadian Oil Sands James Heydon 9781138390089
RRP: €160.65€140.04In this in-depth analysis of First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, James Heydon offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. The environmental consequences of the oil sands industry have been thoroughly explored by... -
Female Crime: The Construction of Women in Criminology by Professor Ngaire Naffine
RRP: €39.26€34.70Female Crime, first published in 1987, surveys the major schools of criminology in order to explore the images of the female offender which underpin many contemporary crime theories. In reveals the ways in which male-centred norms dominated much... -
Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship by Michael Adorjan
RRP: €52.35€45.74A society's response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and... -
Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe: Illegal partnerships Philip Gounev 9781138020122
RRP: €54.73€47.75In Corruption and Organised Crime in Europe, Gounev and Ruggiero present a discussion of the relation between organized criminals and corruption in the EU's 27 Member States. The book draws on research and scholarly work the editors carried out,... -
Penology: Theory, Policy and Practice Karen Harrison 9781137607843
€126.46This textbook considers the full breadth of the criminal justice system, going beyond prisons to cover other punishments such as out-of-court disposals and community penalties, as well as issues around rehabilitation and reintegration. It offers a... -
Violence Against Children in the Criminal Justice System: Global Perspectives on Prevention Wendy O'Brien 9781032089256
RRP: €47.59€41.72Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers. Exacerbating the deleterious effects of this childhood trauma, children's contact with the criminal justice system... -
Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System by Rebecca Tiger
RRP: €26.17€22.84The number of people incarcerated in the U.S. now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons are there for drug offenses. Judging Addicts examines this increased... -
The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control by Peter K. Manning
RRP: €88.06€52.23With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor... -
Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending by Karen Heimer
RRP: €29.74€25.79While rates of violent victimization have declined, women are still much more likely than men to be attacked by an intimate partner. Simultaneously, women's involvement in the criminal justice system, as arrestees and sentenced offenders, is increasing... -
Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets by Robert Garot
RRP: €28.55€24.802011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Community and Urban Section's Robert E. Park Book Award The color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair and many other... -
Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St.Paul, 1865-83 by Joel Best
€24.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250075Author Joel BestFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Punishment and Civilization: Penal Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Society by John Pratt
RRP: €60.69€49.19`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as 'civilized' on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the various numances and contradictions that form the backdrop to that 'civilization' prior to 1970 and the... -
Law, Mind and Brain by Michael Freeman
RRP: €160.65€140.04Over the past 20 years, cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our ability to understand the nature of human thought. Working with the understandings of traditional psychology, the new brain science is transforming many disciplines, from economics to... -
Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations by Miriam Boeri
RRP: €29.75€23.31While some books present "ideal" ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society's margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their... -
Globalisation and the Challenge to Criminology by Francis Pakes
RRP: €160.65€139.56There is no doubt that globalisation has profound effects on crime, justice and our feelings of security, identity and belonging. Many of these affect both the making of laws and the breaking of laws. It has been argued however that criminology has been... -
The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime Carol Jones (University of Gloucestershire, UK) 9780415672580
RRP: €65.44€56.79The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed... -
The Scottish Police Officer Daniel Donnelly 9780415671613
RRP: €59.49€51.77The structure of policing is undergoing change in Scotland at present and the profile of the police officer differs from that of the past. This book takes an informative approach and offers a unique account and insight into the Scottish police... -
The Dynamics of Desistance: Charting Pathways Through Change Deirdre Healy 9780415628051
RRP: €52.35€45.74It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are not fully understood. The Dynamics of Desistance aims to contribute... -
Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London Daniel Briggs 9780415870504
RRP: €44.02€38.71Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly... -
Social Class and Crime: A Biosocial Approach Anthony Walsh (Boise State University, USA) 9780415811064
RRP: €44.02€38.71Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory... -
Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety by Les Moran
RRP: €160.65€139.56Sexuality and the Politics of Violence offers a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology,... -
Community Policing and Peacekeeping by Peter Grabosky
RRP: €54.73€47.75In modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources. Conversely, developing nations often suffer from an inability to provide a basic level of security... -
Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border by Rimple Mehta
RRP: €49.97€43.73This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946. Drawing on original fieldwork, this... -
The Politics of Penal Reform: Margery Fry and the Howard League by Anne Logan
RRP: €49.97€43.73In the context of recent media scrutiny on the state of prisons in the UK, the efficacy of incarcerating large numbers of offenders is an issue which is rising steadily up the political agenda. In 2016, the Howard League for Penal Reform - an... -
Unarmed and Dangerous: Patterns of Threats by Citizens During Deadly Force Encounters with Police by Jon Shane
RRP: €26.17€23.01There is tremendous controversy across the United States (and beyond) when a police officer uses deadly force against an unarmed citizen, but often the conversation is devoid of contextual details. These details matter greatly as a matter of law and... -
Male-Male Murder by Russell P. Dobash
RRP: €49.97€43.73In Male-Male Murder, Dobash and Dobash - experienced researchers, award winning authors and long-time collaborators use evidence from their Murder Study to examine 424 men who murdered another man. Using both quantitative and qualitative data drawn from... -
The Policing of Flows: Challenging Contemporary Criminology by Anthony Amicelle
RRP: €160.65€139.56Rectifying the fact that little criminological attention has been paid to the notion that the security of flows increasingly embodies concerns at the heart of contemporary policing practices, this book makes a significant contribution to knowledge about... -
Delinquency and Drift Revisited, Volume 21: The Criminology of David Matza and Beyond by Thomas G. Blomberg
RRP: €52.35€45.74Fifty years ago, David Matza wrote Delinquency and Drift, challenging the ways people thought about the development of criminals. Today, Delinquency and Drift Revisited reminds criminologists that they ignore Matza's writings at their own intellectual... -
Routledge Handbook of Corrections in the United States by O. Hayden Griffin III
RRP: €54.73€48.94The Routledge Handbook of Corrections in the United States brings together original contributions from leading scholars in criminology and criminal justice that provide an in-depth, state-of-the-art look at the most important topics in corrections. The...