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Child Sexual Abuse in Black and Minoritised Communities: Improving Legal, Policy and Practical Responses by Aisha K. Gill
RRP: £34.99£31.79Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together... -
Making Sense of Ultra-Realism: Contemporary Criminological Theory Through the Lens of Popular Culture Justin Kotze (Teesside University, UK) 9781801171700
RRP: £47.99£40.02Making Sense of Ultra-Realism offers readers a unique insight into one of the most significant theoretical advances in 21st century criminology. Drawing upon popular films and television series, including Game of Thrones, Avengers, Pirates of the... -
Criminal Justice by Ursula Smartt 9781412907071
RRP: £34.99£28.81'This Course Companion in Criminal Justice by Ursula Smartt is to be applauded. It is an essential handbook for all students and practitioners who are studying the criminal justice system. The user-friendly framework provides students with practical... -
Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships by Karen Bullock 9780415627955
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-oriented policing. Drawing upon over 500 entries to the Tilley Award since its inception in 1999, the book... -
Sex Work Teela Sanders 9781843920823
RRP: £37.99£33.38This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to advance a greater knowledge of the social organisation of the sex industry... -
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct James Bonta 9781032272856
RRP: £86.99£75.94The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and mental health explanations of criminal behavior. Drawing upon the General... -
Power, Conflict and Criminalisation by Phil Scraton
RRP: £47.99£41.81Drawing on a body of empirical, qualitative work spanning three decades, this unique text traces the significance of critical social research and critical analyses in understanding some of the most significant and controversial issues in contemporary... -
Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle Raven Bowen (National Ugly Mugs (NUM)) 9781447358817
RRP: £26.99£20.84As the labour market continues to exploit workers by offering precarious, low-paid and temporary jobs, for some duality offers much needed flexibility and staves off poverty. Based on extensive empirical work, this book illustrates contemporary accounts... -
Defund the Police: An International Insurrection Chris Cunneen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 9781447361671
RRP: £19.99£15.76The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence which is often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned... -
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age by Bernard E. Harcourt
RRP: £32.00£31.11From routine security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our... -
Violence and Sex Work in Britain Hilary Kinnell 9781843923503
RRP: £37.99£33.78This book is concerned with violence in the sex industry. It aims to provide an understanding of the nature of violence against sex workers and the relationship between violence, government legislation and policy, and law enforcement practices - an... -
Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime by James Cockayne
RRP: £30.00£27.35Hidden Power reveals criminal mafias determining political outcomes to suit their own agendas, and tells how they do it - by influencing elections, changing constitutions, fomenting terrorism, waging war, negotiating peace deals and working behind the... -
Policing: Development and Contemporary Practice by Peter Joyce
RRP: £38.99£31.98A comprehensive introduction to policing in England and Wales, providing you with an in-depth understanding of the challenges and complexities of modern policing and an increased awareness of the history and development of the profession. This second... -
Police Corruption: Exploring Police Deviance and Crime Maurice Punch 9781843924104
RRP: £39.99£32.77Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning... -
Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide by Philip Jenkins
RRP: £45.99£40.13In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespread interest as a villain in popular culture. There is no doubt, however, that popular fears and stereotypes... -
Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity and the Commerce of Sex by Elizabeth Bernstein
RRP: £28.00£27.39Despite increased economic opportunities for women, sexual commerce has not only thrived in the Western world, it has diversified along technological, spatial, and social lines. For example, contemporary sex workers often meet their clinets through the... -
A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation Karen Corteen 9781447325727
RRP: £30.99£24.14This is the first accessible, succinct text to provide definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts relating to the expanding field of crime, harm and victimisation. Written by a wide range of experts, it includes theories, ideas and case... -
Criminology and Social Theory by David Garland 9780198299424
RRP: £29.99£29.05Contemporary criminology inhabits a rapidly changing world. The speed and profundity of these changes are echoed in the rapidly developing character of criminology's subject-matter, whether it is crime rates, crime policy, or the practices of policing,... -
Rural Crime and Community Safety Vania Ceccato (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) 9781138065918
RRP: £49.99£43.90Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of... -
Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain by David Nash 9781137290434
£28.66This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide... -
Car Crime Claire Corbett 9781843920243
RRP: £19.99£17.69Crime involving cars - whether involving offences by drivers or theft of and from cars - represents a substantial proportion of offences committed, and occupies an enormous amount of police time. But it is not always perceived as the serious crime that... -
Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence by Elizabeth A. Cook 9780367651619
RRP: £39.99£35.06Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice,... -
Men, Masculinities and Violence: An ethnographic study Anthony Ellis 9781138040274
RRP: £47.99£41.81Why do some men use physical violence against others? How do some men come to value physical violence as a resource? Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted with men involved in serious violence and crime over a period of two years in the... -
Shoot to kill: Police accountability, firearms and fatal force Maurice Punch (Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science) 9781847424723
RRP: £22.99£17.94The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell underground station in 2005 raised acute issues about operational practice, legitimacy, accountability and policy making regarding police use of fatal force. It dramatically exposed a policy, referred... -
The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives by Wayne Petherick 9780128092873
RRP: £50.99£48.72The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology. Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a... -
The Psychopath Epidemic: Why the World Is So F*cked Up and What You Can Do About It by Cameron Reilly
RRP: £12.99£9.56Similar to the bestselling Sociopath Next Door comes a unique look at the psychopaths among us and how our society--from kindergarten to corporations--encourages and rewards psychotic behavior, and what average citizens can do to survive and thrive when... -
Women and Criminal Justice: From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation Jill Annison 9781447319313
RRP: £27.99£21.57This insightful book focuses on developments since the publication in 2007 of the Corston Report into women and criminal justice. While some of its recommendations were accepted by government, actual policy has restricted the scale and scope of change. ... -
Developments in Social Work with Offenders by Professor Peter Raynor
RRP: £40.00£38.40Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes... -
Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof by Beth A. Bechky 9780691183589
RRP: £25.00£19.59A rare behind-the-scenes look at the work of forensic scientistsThe findings of forensic science-from DNA profiles and chemical identifications of illegal drugs to comparisons of bullets, fingerprints, and shoeprints-are widely used in police... -
Alternative Criminologies Pat Carlen (University of Leicester, UK) 9781138067431
RRP: £44.99£39.68Alternative Criminologies celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. It examines complex and global crime issues in light of the many alternative scientific, artistic, empathetic,... -
Restorative Justice in Practice: Evaluating What Works for Victims and Offenders Joanna Shapland (University of Sheffield, UK) 9781843928454
RRP: £43.99£38.44Restorative justice has made significant progress in recent years and now plays an increasingly important role in and alongside the criminal justice systems of a number of countries in different parts of the world. In many cases, however, successes and... -
Race and Criminal Justice by Hindpal Singh Bhui 9781412945554
RRP: £42.99£35.02'The social landscape of 'race' and 'ethnicity' within contemporary Britain has become increasingly diverse and complex. The old, exclusive research emphasis in criminology on the outcomes of social inequalities and policies is now challenged by an... -
Culture, Diversity, and Criminal Justice: Towards Culturally Safe Criminal Justice Systems Alex Workman 9781032191874
RRP: £33.99£30.00This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems in Westernized nation-states. Moving past a binary concept of diversity that involves only race and gender,... -
Security Operations: An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas by Robert H. Deatherage, Jr. 9780367688363
RRP: £64.99£56.14Security Operations: An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas, Second Edition was written for one primary purpose: to keep people alive by introducing them to private security detail tactics and techniques... -
Understanding Criminal Justice: A Critical Introduction by Azrini Wahidin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice. Understanding Criminal Justice seeks to provide students with a critical introduction to the range of... -
Reimagining Rehabilitation: Beyond the Individual Lol Burke 9781138233188
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice. Outlining an approach to rehabilitation which takes into account wider democratic processes, political... -
Degrees of Freedom: Prison Education at The Open University Rod Earle (The Open University) 9781447353072
RRP: £28.99£22.29The first authoritative volume to look back on the last 50 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received. Offering... -
Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland: What Does Religion Do? by Veronique Altglas 9783030969493
RRP: £44.99£40.09Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion - how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do?These interrogations are at the core of... -
History and Crime by Barry S. Godfrey 9781412920803
RRP: £44.99£36.59This lively and accessible text provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. It explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of contemporary criminal justice, and examines the historical context for... -
A State Built on Sand: How Opium Undermined Afghanistan by David Mansfield
RRP: £35.00£31.24Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1.The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy...