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Ethnographies of Law and Social Control by Stacy Lee Burns 9780762311286
£109.80This volume brings together distinguished scholars and cutting-edge experts in the fields of ethnography, law, and social control to present a comprehensive, insightful, and state-of-the-art overview of the everyday work and activities of legal and... -
Cyber Criminals on Trial by Russell G. Smith 9780521840477
RRP: £78.00£70.80As computer-related crime becomes more important globally, both scholarly and journalistic accounts tend to focus on the ways in which the crime has been committed and how it could have been prevented. Very little has been written about what follows: the... -
Policing Gangs in America by Charles M. Katz 9780521851107
RRP: £61.00£55.04Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of this 2006 book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment... -
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America by Jeremy Travis 9780521849166
RRP: £61.00£55.04Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America is intended to shed light on a question that fuels the public's concern about the number of returning prisoners. What are the public safety consequences of the fourfold increase in the number of individuals entering... -
The Criminal Career: The Danish Longitudinal Study by Britta Kyvsgaard 9780521815154
RRP: £58.99£53.28How can the average 'criminal career' be characterized and how common are career criminals? Does offending become more specialized and/or more serious as people get older? Do female careers in crime differ from those of males in substance or only in... -
Shame Management through Reintegration by Eliza Ahmed 9780521807913
RRP: £83.00£75.23This 2001 book is a follow-on to John Braithwaite's best-selling and influential Crime, Shame and Reintegration. Shame management is becoming a central concept, in theoretical and practical terms. This book makes a major contribution to the advancement... -
Restorative Justice and Civil Society by Heather Strang 9780521805995
RRP: £73.00£65.97Advocates of restorative justice question the state's ability to deliver satisfactory justice to the community, both in criminal and other cases. This collaborative 2001 volume looks at the burgeoning restorative justice movement and considers the... -
Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder by David McCallum 9780521804028
RRP: £90.00£72.17In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America, communities try to come to terms with private and public trauma and there is a need to understand what kind of person can commit such terrible acts. The... -
Child Victims of Homicide by Christine Alder 9780521802215
RRP: £73.00£65.97Children account for 10-20% of all homicide victims in Australia, UK, Canada and US. The most vulnerable time has been found to be the first year of life and, in particular, the first day of life. Unlike other forms of homicide where men are by far the... -
The Criminal Recidivism Process by Edward Zamble 9780521795104
RRP: £30.99£26.43This book addresses how and why criminal offenders repeat their actions after being released from prison. It is part of an attempt to explain criminal behavior within the context of a contemporary psychological understanding of behavior, rather than more... -
Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration by Bert Useem 9780521713399
RRP: £32.99£28.38During the past 25 years, the prison population in America shot upward to reach a staggering 1.53 million by 2005. This book takes a broad, critical look at incarceration, the huge social experiment of American society. The authors investigate the causes... -
Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy by Brian Forst 9780521676427
RRP: £50.99£45.60Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy describes the problem of terrorism; compares it to other forms of aggression, particularly crime and war; and discusses policy options for dealing with the terrorism. It focuses on the causes of terrorism with the aim... -
Policing Gangs in America by Charles M. Katz 9780521616546
RRP: £36.99£31.75Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of this 2006 book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment... -
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security by Jennifer Wood 9780521616423
RRP: £38.99£33.26The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is... -
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development by Alex R. Piquero 9780521613095
RRP: £36.99£30.33This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in... -
Violence and Childhood in the Inner City by Joan McCord 9780521587204
RRP: £36.99£30.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control by Sally S. Simpson 9780521580830
RRP: £61.00£54.64Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them to compliant status? In this book Sally Simpson examines whether the shift towards the use of criminal... -
The Framework of Judicial Sentencing: A Study in Legal Decision Making by Austin Lovegrove 9780521584272
RRP: £114.00£102.28Austin Lovegrove examines the sentencing of offenders appearing on multiple offences and how judges, having fixed a prison sentence for each offence, determine an overall sentence for each offender. Analysing judges' verbal protocols for sentencing... -
When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence by Kenneth Polk 9780521462679
RRP: £73.00£65.97This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men. A qualitative study, it eschews heavy use of statistics to focus on case studies. Kenneth Polk then establishes the themes which run through four specific... -
Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace by Peter Grabosky 9780521152860
RRP: £29.99£25.94When this book was first published in 2001, the convergence of communications and computing had begun to transform Western industrial societies. Increasing connectivity was accompanied by unprecedented opportunities for crimes of acquisition. The... -
The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development by Per-Olof H. Wikstrom 9780521119054
RRP: £40.99£33.26Integration of disciplines, theories and research orientations has assumed a central role in criminological discourse yet it remains difficult to identify any concrete discoveries or significant breakthroughs for which integration has been responsible... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology by Adam Graycar 9780521112932
£31.71As a unique work of reference, The Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology covers the broad range of contemporary and historical subjects of criminology, combining statistical and narrative analyses. The book provides the most up-to-date figures and... -
Delinquent-Prone Communities by Don Weatherburn 9780521026970
RRP: £30.99£28.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Child Victims of Homicide by Christine Alder 9780521002516
RRP: £30.99£28.28Children account for 10-20% of all homicide victims in Australia, UK, Canada and US. The most vulnerable time has been found to be the first year of life and, in particular, the first day of life. Unlike other forms of homicide where men are by far the... -
No Heroes, No Villains: The Story of a Murder Trial by Steven J. Phillips 9780394725314
RRP: £15.75£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394725314Author Steven J. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170g -
Consequences of Child Abuse for an Early Onset of Juvenile Delinquency: A Prospective Cohort Study by Suman Kakar 9780530003511
RRP: £80.00£70.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003511Author Suman KakarFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 780g -
Consequences of Child Abuse for an Early Onset of Juvenile Delinquency: A Prospective Cohort Study by Suman Kakar 9780530003504
RRP: £53.00£46.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003504Author Suman KakarFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 503g -
Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security by Brian Forst 9780521899451
RRP: £120.00£98.14This volume presents 19 original essays addressing what is widely regarded as the most serious problem confronting America today and for years to come - terrorism - from the unique perspective of criminology. The chapters collected here address such... -
Third Party Policing by Lorraine Mazerolle 9780521827836
RRP: £90.00£72.17Third party policing represents a major shift in contemporary crime control practices. As the lines blur between criminal and civil law, responsibility for crime control no longer rests with state agencies but is shared between a wide range of... -
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition by Mr Peter Hodgkinson 9780521815901
RRP: £105.00£82.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Delinquent-Prone Communities by Don Weatherburn 9780521790949
RRP: £90.00£77.09Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the... -
Early Prevention of Adult Antisocial Behaviour by David P. Farrington 9780521651943
RRP: £109.00£93.23This book presents a comprehensive summary of how well adult crime, antisocial behaviour and antisocial personality disorder can be prevented by interventions applied early in life. It reviews important childhood risk and protective factors for these... -
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America by Jeremy Travis 9780521613866
RRP: £26.99£21.89Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America is intended to shed light on a question that fuels the public's concern about the number of returning prisoners. What are the public safety consequences of the fourfold increase in the number of individuals entering... -
Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered: The Stockholm Metropolitan Project by Sheilagh Hodgins 9780521580731
RRP: £90.00£72.17In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians... -
Understanding Police Use of Force: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity by Geoffrey P. Alpert 9780521546751
RRP: £38.99£33.26Whenever police officers come into contact with citizens there is a chance that the encounter will digress to one in which force is used on a suspect. Fortunately, most police activities do not involve the use of force. But those that do reflect... -
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition by Mr Peter Hodgkinson 9780521115599
RRP: £42.99£37.56What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it? By asking these questions, the editors hope to... -
Hate Crimes Revisited: America's War On Those Who Are Different by Jack McDevitt 9780813339221
£27.40Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists who thrived on hating minorities. No more. In this new book by two of the... -
Delinquent Networks: Youth Co-Offending in Stockholm by Jerzy Sarnecki 9780521022446
RRP: £44.99£38.14This book presents a study of co-offering relations among youths under twenty-one suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991-5. In total, the study includes just over 22,000 individuals suspected of around 29,000 offences. Jerzy Sarnecki... -
Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered: The Stockholm Metropolitan Project by Sheilagh Hodgins 9780521111355
RRP: £30.99£27.40In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians... -
Using the Police Craft to Improve Patrol Officer Decision-Making by James J. Willis 9781009314503
RRP: £17.00£14.72In this Element we build on our previous work conceptualizing a craft learning model for governing police discretion. We envision a model for harnessing patrol officers' craft knowledge and skills, learned through experience handling similar street-level...