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Badfellas by Simon Winlow 9781859734148
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Fights, fraud and drugs racketeering regularly hit the headlines, but they are just news stories for most of us. For others, they constitute a way of life. This book uncovers a world where male... -
Riots and Political Protest Simon Winlow 9780415730822
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors take to the streets. Riots disrupted many Western cities and new protest movements emerged, keen to address a bleak context of... -
New Directions in Crime and Deviancy Simon Winlow 9780415626491
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Criminology is at a crossroads. In the last two decades it has largely failed to produce the kind of new intellectual frameworks and empirical data that might help us to explain the high levels of... -
The Politics of Nostalgia: Class, Rootlessness and Decline Simon Winlow 9781837535514
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11For ordinary people today, the future seems dark and forbidding. In generations gone by, parents looked forward with optimism, confident their children would do better. Not anymore. Standards of... -
Rethinking Social Exclusion: The End of the Social? by Simon Winlow 9781849201087
Booksplease Price: £89.31'...classic Winlow and Hall - bleak, brilliant and unmatched in the art of rethinking crucial social issues. Enlightening, and rather scary.' - Professor Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of... -
The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics Simon Winlow (Teeside University) 9781447328483
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.23The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function... -
The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again Simon Winlow (Northumbria University) 9781447354154
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The left is dead. Its ailments cannot be cured. The only way to resurrect what was once valuable in leftist politics is to declare the left dead and begin from the beginning again. Winlow and Hall... -
Researching Crime and Justice: Tales from the Field Louise Westmarland (The Open University, UK) 9781843923169
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This book provides an introduction to research and some of the methods in the field of crime and justice and related areas, including police, prisons and criminal justice policy making. Less a dry... -
Alternative Criminologies Pat Carlen (University of Leicester, UK) 9781138067431
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48Alternative 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... -
Violent Night by Steve Hall 9781845201647
Booksplease Price: £41.78Why do our night-time cities seem to mix pleasure with violence? This is the time and place when cities are taken over by young men in search of alcohol, drugs, another club or a fight. Current... -
Criminological Ethnography: An Introduction by James Treadwell
Booksplease Price: £77.61"Written by one of the best Criminological Ethnographers in the business, this text will serve as an invaluable and insightful resource for both novice and seasoned ethnographers of criminological... -
Riot, Unrest and Protest on the Global Stage by David Pritchard 9781137305510
Booksplease Price: £46.58In this collection, leading international scholars examine riots and protest in a range of countries and contexts, exploring the major social transformations of rioting and the changing dynamics,... -
Revitalizing Criminological Theory:: Towards a new Ultra-Realism by Steve Hall 9780415744362
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book provides a short, comprehensive and accessible introduction to Ultra-Realism: a unique and radical school of criminological thought that has been developed by the authors over a number of... -
The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts Avi Brisman 9781138819009
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.29A comprehensive one-stop reference text, The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts (the 'Companion') will find a place on every bookshelf, whether it be that of a budding scholar... -
My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men David Wilson 9780751577686
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26'Hugely insightful and thought provoking . . . I read it from cover to cover in one go' - Emilia Fox'With characteristic brilliance and admirable sensitivity, Wilson illuminates the complex causes of... -
Lacan for Criminologists: Zemiology, Ultra-Realism, and Harm Reduction by Rafe McGregor 9781032975146
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the work of French cultural icon Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) for criminologists, sociologists, and social theorists. The authors approach Lacan as... -
The Dark Side of Prosperity: Late Capitalism’s Culture of Indebtedness by Mark Horsley
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass indebtedness through the... -
Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm Steve Hall 9781843922551
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.99This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's criminal identities and consumer culture. Using unique data taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent... -
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era by Leanne McRae 9781787565265
Booksplease Price: £56.78This book uses a series of narrowly defined case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethink the relationships between harm, crime, deviance, leisure and capitalism. It argues that... -
Reflexivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless by K. Lumsden 9781137379399
Booksplease Price: £90.86This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in... -
Criminology: The Basics Sandra Walklate 9781032695204
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes and concerns of this compelling and complex subject... -
New Directions in Criminological Theory Steve Hall 9781843929130
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.99This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century... -
Reflexivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless by K. Lumsden 9781349478743
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in... -
The Architecture of Violence: Towards a Theory of Infrastructural Harm by Simon Hallsworth (University of Suffolk, UK) 9781041348023
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book offers a new way of understanding harm in modern society. Rather than treating violence as the result of breakdown or failure, it argues that many forms of harm are built into the very... -
My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men by David Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "A PLOT TO KILL" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW 'Hugely insightful and thought provoking . . . I read it from cover to cover in one go' - Emilia Fox'With... -
Revitalizing Criminological Theory: Towards a new Ultra-Realism Steve Hall 9781041034933
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The second edition of Revitalizing Criminological Theory is a substantial revision and expansion of the first edition. Ultra-realism is a unique school of criminological thought currently... -
Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book argues that 'social democratic criminology' is an important critical perspective which is essential for the analysis of crime and criminal justice and crucial for humane and effective... -
The English Riots of 2011: A Summer of Discontent by Daniel Briggs 9781904380887
Booksplease Price: £21.99From Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry and gossip to hard facts, research and empirical investigation, this outstanding collection looks at the nature and causes of the English Riots of 2011 one year... -
The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism by Thomas Raymen
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science, psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this book offers up a diagnosis of contemporary liberal capitalist society and the... -
Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK by Professor Dick Hobbs 9780199668281
Booksplease Price: £84.83Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief Constable, to explore the contested notion of... -
The Myth of the 'Crime Decline': Exploring Change and Continuity in Crime and Harm by Justin Kotze
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The Myth of the 'Crime Decline' seeks to critically interrogate the supposed statistical decline of crime rates, thought to have occurred in a number of predominantly Western countries over the past... -
Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows Daniel Briggs 9781447341697
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.23Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingomez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence. Through vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge tell the stories of the people who live there, placing... -
Building Better Societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart Michael Orton (Warwick Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick) 9781447332039
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.04What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors... -
Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy by Professor Dick Hobbs 9780199252244
Booksplease Price: £48.61In recent years, the expansion of night-time leisure has emerged as a key indicator of post-industrial urban prosperity, attracting investment, creating employment, and re-generating the built... -
Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets: National and International perspectives Tammy C. Ayres 9781138541825
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets... -
Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows by Daniel Briggs 9781447341680
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.79"Julia" nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe's most problematic ghettos: she is homeless,... -
Men, Masculinities and Violence: An ethnographic study Anthony Ellis 9781138040274
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Why 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... -
Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy by Professor Dick Hobbs 9780199288007
Booksplease Price: £27.58In recent years, the expansion of night-time leisure has emerged as a key indicator of post-industrial urban prosperity, attracting investment, creating employment and re-generating the built... -
Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities by Phil Hadfield 9780199297856
Booksplease Price: £79.50In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to... -
Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities by Phil Hadfield 9780199297863
Booksplease Price: £32.03In Britain today, if you are in the business of fighting crime, then you have to be in the business of dealing with alcohol. 'Binge-drinking' culture is intrinsic to urban leisure and has come to...