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Translational Criminology in Policing The George Mason Police Research Group with David Weisburd 9780367713126
RRP: £36.99£32.53With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing. Translational criminology aims to understand the obstacles and... -
Homicide Case Studies by Kyle A. Burgason
RRP: £36.99£32.53Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors,... -
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment by Michael Fiddler
RRP: £82.00£71.66The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often... -
Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom Em Daniels 9780367499624
RRP: £32.99£29.16This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults' ability to learn. Within its detailed and useful approaches, Daniels provides a road map for building a trauma-responsive... -
Early Learning: Journal of Museum Education 37:1 Thematic Issue by Sharon E. Shaffer
RRP: £36.99£32.53Sponsored by the Museum Education RoundtableBook InformationISBN 9781611328196Author Sharon E. ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Left Coast Press IncPublisher Left Coast Press Inc -
The Legacy of Anomie Theory by Freda Adler
RRP: £49.99£43.90This sixth volume Advances in Criminological Theory is testimony to a resurgent interest in anomie-strain theory, which began in the mid-1980s and continues unabated into the 1990s. Contributors focus on the new body of empirical research and theorizing... -
Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America Scott Phillips 9781032009865
RRP: £36.99£32.53Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer... -
Demystifying Modern Slavery Rose Broad 9780367149307
RRP: £120.00£103.61Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery? Why do they exploit others? What might be done to stop exploitation recurring? These are the questions answered in this book. Reporting on the first primary study of modern slavery offenders, the book depicts... -
Perceptions of Criminal Justice by Vicky de Mesmaecker
RRP: £29.99£26.64In recent decades, research into the legitimacy of criminal justice has convincingly demonstrated the importance of procedural justice to citizens' sense of trust and confidence in legal authorities and their resulting willingness to conform to the law... -
The Science of Crime Measurement: Issues for Spatially-Referenced Crime Data by Martin A. Andresen
RRP: £43.99£38.44Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society - but how accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other measurements... -
Offending Identities Kirsty Hudson 9781138878549
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book aims to explore sex offenders' perspectives of the way they are treated and managed. Whilst a great deal has been written about sex offenders and their treatment within the criminal justice system, few studies have approached the issues through... -
Global Organized Crime: A 21st Century Approach Mitchel P. Roth (Sam Houston State University, USA) 9781138639485
RRP: £76.99£68.05In the maelstrom of globalization and cyberspace, organized crime continues to defy definition. A diverse array of activities is perpetuated by criminal organizations, criminal groups and associations, and gangs, and it is clear that one specific label... -
The Sexual Murderer: Offender behaviour and implications for practice Eric Beauregard 9781138499522
RRP: £45.99£40.13Sexual homicide continues to be one of the most widely reported and sensationalised forms of murder, attracting fascination from the public and scholars alike. Despite this continued interest, few empirical studies have been conducted on this particular... -
Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities by Nina Persak
RRP: £47.99£41.81The increasing trend and prevalence of incivilities-targeting punitive regulatory measures across Europe raises important issues regarding the legitimacy, effectiveness and impact of such formal social control. Regulation and Social Control of... -
Introduction to Criminal Justice by Bradley D. Edwards
RRP: £79.99£76.59Introduction to Criminal Justice, Ninth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice process-outlining the decisions, practices, people, and issues involved. It provides a solid introduction to the mechanisms of the criminal... -
Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy: The Cost of Custodial Penalties Cara Jardine 9781138329348
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment. Drawing on original qualitative data, it looks beyond traditional models of the family to examine the question of which... -
Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe by Brunilda Pali
RRP: £135.00£117.28The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat. This book challenges predominant and fear inducing approaches of justice and security as they appear in intercultural contexts, and... -
Elite Deviance by David R. Simon
RRP: £76.99£67.05Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U.S. power and wealth, this book introduces students to theories of elite deviance and covers both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause significant harm. This considerably updated, 11th... -
State Crime, Women and Gender by Victoria E. Collins
RRP: £45.99£40.13The United Nations has called violence against women "the most pervasive, yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world" and there is a long-established history of the systematic victimization of women by the state during times of peace... -
Contract and Procurement Fraud Investigation Guidebook Charles E. Piper 9781138044982
RRP: £54.99£47.72Contract and procurement fraud, collusion, and corruption are worldwide problems. Such wrongdoing causes federal, state, and local governments, as well as private-sector corporations and businesses, to lose funds and profits, while the wrongdoers... -
Crime, Harm and Consumerism Steve Hall 9781032081755
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences, it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring... -
Understanding Terrorism - International Student Edition: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues Gus Martin 9781071808429
RRP: £76.00£70.96Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of domestic and international terrorism that helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to critically assess the underlying... -
Crime-free Housing in the 21st Century by Barry Poyner
RRP: £49.99£43.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954560737Author Barry PoynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Jill Dando Institute Of Crime SciencePublisher Jill Dando Institute Of Crime... -
Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence, and Victorian Working Women by Shani D'Cruze
RRP: £108.00£93.80This book explores sexual violence against Victorian working women. The author examines how gendered notions inform both women's negotiation of relationships and men's aggression toward women.Book InformationISBN 9780875802428Author Shani D'CruzeFormat... -
Criminal Man by Mary Gibson
RRP: £99.00£86.14Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This... -
Pissing on Demand: Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry by Ken D. Tunnell
RRP: £21.99£19.19Drug testing has become the norm in many workplaces. In order to get a job, potential employees are required to provide their urine for testing. Pissing on Demand examines this phenomenon along with the resulting rise of the anti-drug testing movement,... -
Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding by Gregory J. Snyder
RRP: £74.00£64.45Inside the complex and misunderstood world of professional street skateboarding On a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, a crew of skaters and videographers watch as one of them attempts to land a "heel flip" over a fire hydrant on a sidewalk in... -
Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence by Ramiro Martinez
RRP: £24.99£21.67An essential collection that argues fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded The original essays in this much-needed collection broadly assess the contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Immigration and Crime... -
Get a Job: Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime by Robert D. Crutchfield
RRP: £24.99£21.67Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individuals who are marginalized from the labor market are more likely to commit crimes, and communities with more... -
Probation and Parole by Dan Phillips
RRP: £41.99£36.75Probation and Parole Departments must provide for the protection of society as well as the rehabilitation of the offending individual. Probation and Parole: Current Issues presents leading authorities offering various broad and specific aspects of the... -
Violence and Sexual Abuse at Home: Current Issues in Spousal Battering and Child Maltreatment by Susan Sorenson
£41.42Violence and abuse that occur behind closed doors are not just personal concerns or issues. Family violence is a major mental health, social service, health care, and criminal justice problem that society cannot continue to ignore. Violence and Sexual... -
City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35 by Michael Boudreau
RRP: £29.99£26.50This book will be of interest to social and legal historians, legal scholars and criminologists, and anyone interested in the history of Halifax.Book InformationISBN 9780774822053Author Michael BoudreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of... -
The Craft of Criminology: Selected Papers by Travis Hirschi
RRP: £135.00£117.68Travis Hirschi is one of the most cited criminologists of the twentieth century. His work has provoked controversy and heated debates about the causes of crime, proper research methods, and the most effective policies to prevent and control crime. Known... -
The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis by Leslie W. Kennedy
RRP: £135.00£117.28Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative... -
Migration, Culture Conflict, Crime and Terrorism by Rob T. Guerette
RRP: £145.00£78.81Immigration and its consequences is a substantially contested subject with hugely differing viewpoints. While some contend that criminal participation by migrants is the result of environmental factors found in the host country that are beyond the... -
Crime in an Insecure World by Richard V. Ericson
RRP: £55.00£47.73Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century obsession with insecurity fostered by neo-liberal governments. It... -
Burglary Rob Mawby 9781903240328
RRP: £37.99£33.38Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the public. Victims are particularly affected by burglary, and burglary is generally at the centre of crime... -
Sex, Crime and Morality Sharon Hayes 9781843928157
RRP: £45.99£40.13Over the last few decades, there has been a marked increase in media and debate surrounding a specific group of offences in modern Democratic nations which bear the brunt of the label 'crimes against morality'. Included within this group are offences... -
A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839 by David J. Cox
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of both qualitative and quantitative research data, this book provides a fresh insight... -
Technocrime: Technology, Crime and Social Control Stephane Leman-Langlois (Montreal University, Quebec, Canada) 9781843923855
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea that technology enables an entirely new way of...