Criminology category: 4273 books
Victimology
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Victimology is a relatively new and emerging interdisciplinary area that crosses the fields of criminology, law, sociology, and justice. Written by one of the world’s leading experts on victimology, this book is designed to offer a broad introduction to the subject. Unlike other texts that are organized...
Crime Control As Industry
Towards Gulags, Western Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Prison populations, especially in Russia...
The Criminal Body
Lombroso and the Anatomy of Deviance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This fascinating book traces the evolution of the "criminal body" by focusing on the work of Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician and anthropologist, who is widely held to be the father of modern criminology. Building on Lombroso's concept of the "born criminal" and the idea that...
Capital Punishment
A Hazard to a Sustainable Criminal Justice System?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
As most jurisdictions move away from the death penalty, some remain strongly committed to it, while others hold on to it but use it sparingly. This volume seeks to understand why, by examining the death penalty’s relationship to state governance in the past and present. It also examines how international,...
by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Jamie G Longazel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This concise and engaging book presents a critical perspective on the correctional system and the process of incarceration in the United States. Fleury-Steiner and Longazel emphasize the magnitude of mass imprisonment in the United States, especially of people of color, not by objective statistics...
Criminal Actions and Social Situations
Understanding the Role of Structure and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and problematic – issues of how intention...
Why We Love Serial Killers
The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A chilling investigation into the deviant mind, “so powerful and provocative, you cannot put it down” (Rita Cosby, New York Times–bestselling author).
We know the names: Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, among them—serial killers transformed by the media into ghoulish...
War, Denial and Nation-Building in Sri Lanka
After the End
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book begins from a critical account of the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war, tracing themes of nationalism, discourse and conflict memory through this period of immense violence and into its aftermath. Using these themes to explore state crime, atrocity and its denial and representation,...
Preventing Corporate Corruption
The Anti-Bribery Compliance Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book presents the results of a two-year international research project conducted for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) to investigate and provide solutions for reducing bribery and corruption in corporations and institutions. It starts with an empirical case study on the...
Quantifying Neighbourhood Effects
Frontiers and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong and independent effect upon the well-being and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2004
This collection of articles presents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. By exploring the interstitial area between the sociology of law, social problems and social movements, the initial chapters trace out...
by Dana M. Britton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The Gender of Crime introduces students to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this dynamic and provocative book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing...
by Dana M. Britton, Grace E. Howard, Shannon K. Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
When corporations carry on their business in a grossly negligent manner, or take a cavalier approach to risk management, the consequences can be catastrophic. The harm may be financial, as occurred when such well-regarded companies as Enron, Lehman Brothers, Worldcom and Barings collapsed, or it may...