Criminology category: 4273 books
Beyond Empiricism
Institutions and Intentions in the Study of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Beyond Empiricism expands the discourse on theories of criminal behavior. It considers institutional, social, and individual issues related to criminal behavior, while individually each raises questions about the adequacy of current theoretical claims. The topics have significant implications both...
The Poetics of Crime
Understanding and Researching Crime and Deviance Through Creative Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses,...
Restorative Justice in China
Comparing Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book provides insights into the history, development, and practice of restorative justice methods in China. Traditionally in China, mediation has played an important role in criminal proceedings, which has many characteristics in common with the “Western” concept of restorative justice. Through...
Crime and Economics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime and criminology.
The economics of crime is an area of growing activity and concern, increasingly influential both to the study of crime and criminal justice and...
Framing Law and Crime
An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical...
The Informal Economy
Seasonal Work, Street Selling and Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and criminal work in three urban and...
Selling Sex Overseas
Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
2013 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology
Every year, thousands of Chinese women travel to Asia and the United States in order to engage in commercial sex work. In Selling Sex Overseas, Ko-lin Chin and James Finckenauer...
Decarcerating America
From Mass Punishment to Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Bestselling category: The New Press is the country’s leading criminal justice publisher. Invisible Punishment, also an anthology, sold over 13,300 copies combined.
Unparalleled expertise: Ernest Drucker “owns” the idea of mass incarceration as an epidemic, and is the leading public health...
The Marion Experiment
Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Taking readers into the darkness of solitary confinement, this searing collection of convict experiences, academic research, and policy recommendations shines a light on the proliferation of supermax (super-maximum-security) prisons and the detrimental effects of long-term high-security confinement...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production, representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the geopolitics...
by John Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in contemporary penal policy.
Penal populism is associated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda. Engaging with the latest debates in criminology, disability and violence studies, it goes beyond conventional notions of hate crime to look at...
Offender Rehabilitation
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
'Robinson and Crow have achieved the seemingly impossible: a book about rehabilitation that transcends the "medical model", that is original and contemporary yet grounded in a sophisticated history, and most of all that is fun to read. It will become a new classic text in a field that has...
Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe?
Processes of Criminalisation within Central and Eastern European Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
After the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989 and disintegration of the Soviet Union, scholars focused on the problems of legal transitions within the newly emerging democracies. Two decades on, these states are in ‘post-transition’ conditions; having undergone and continuing to experience political,...