Criminology category: 4273 books
Social Learning and Social Structure
A General Theory of Crime and Deviance
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The social learning theory of crime integrates Edwin H. Sutherland's diff erential association theory with behavioral learning theory. It is a widely accepted and applied approaches to criminal and deviant behavior. However, it is also widely misinterpreted, misstated, and misapplied.This is the fi...
Crime and Criminality
A multidisciplinary approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The question of ‘why’ and ‘how’ certain individuals are drawn towards behaving in a way that contravenes the ‘Law of the Land’ is not an easy one to address. Researchers from various different fields have nevertheless attempted to develop theoretical explanations for the existence of different...
Transgender Cops
The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality Expectations in Police Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing and explores how gender, and the non-conformity of it, is perceived within...
by Claire Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2005
Society holds a popular perception that links children in public care with criminal activity, but this connection is largely assumed. This book addresses the lack of evidence supporting this potentially damaging assumption.
It begins by analysing past research, critically examining current...
The Spectacular Few
Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
“Mark Hamm is, without doubt, the world’s leading expert on prison radicalization. Based on decades of research, this book presents a nuanced and sophisticated picture,. Beautifully written, it is the most complete, and the most empirically rigorous, account of this phenomenon to date. A must...
Punishment for Sale
Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Punishment for Sale is the definitive modern history of private prisons, told through social, economic and political frames. The authors explore the origin of the ideas of modern privatization, the establishment of private prisons, and the efforts to keep expanding in the face of problems and bad...
The Politics of Palm Oil Harm
A Green Criminological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region. Globally, the palm oil industry is associated with practices that fit the most conventional definitions and perceptions of crime, but also crucially, forms of...
by David Honeywell
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
David Honeywell is a reformed offender turned author, writer and PhD student. In his recently published autobiography, Never Ending Circles, he recounted his life of crime and reckless lifestyle and how it began after a disastrous childhood, schooling and short lived army career where he spent time...
by Caroline Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book examines the topical issue of global drug policy and outlines five steps that could be taken to improve its effectiveness. A public criminology approach is applied to explore not only what could be done, but also why it matters and how it could be achieved. It argues that more effective...
by Adrian Barton, Nick Johns
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
How the state ‘deals with’ crime and criminality is a major issue for all students of criminology and criminal justice. This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system of England and Wales by presenting a detailed overview of both the theory behind...
Discovering Criminology
From W. Byron Groves
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
This rare book brings together the writings of W. Byron Groves (Casey), possibly the most brilliant criminologist in America during the 1990s. Killed in a car accident at the height of his career, his students, teachers and friends worked to produce this book to preserve some of his best pieces and others...
Explaining Crime
A Primer in Criminological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable...
Murdering Animals
Writings on Theriocide, Homicide and Nonspeciesist Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and “theriocide” (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously. Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable animals...
Prison Policy in Ireland
Politics, Penal-Welfarism and Political Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This book is the first examination of the history of prison policy in Ireland. Despite sharing a legal and penal heritage with the United Kingdom, Ireland’s prison policy has taken a different path. This book examines how penal-welfarism was experienced in Ireland, shedding further light on the...