Criminology category: 4273 books
Crime and Criminal Justice
Concepts and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
“The text is logically organized and easy to read and understand. Students will find the text intriguing as they move through the coverage of the controversies from the text.”
—Michelle L. Foster, Kent State University
Updated with new content and current controversies that facilitate...
by Kerry Clamp
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book explores how restorative justice is used and what its potential benefits are in situations where the state has been either explicitly or implicitly involved in human rights abuses. Restorative justice is increasingly becoming a popular mechanism to respond to crime in democratic settings...
Corrections, Peacemaking and Restorative Justice
Transforming Individuals and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
This book views peacemaking as a broad, encompassing process that is expressed in many different shapes and forms. It blends ancient-wisdom traditions, peacemaking criminology, and restorative justice principles as a way of intervening with offenders in both institutional and community-based settings....
The Reasoning Criminal
Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic, sociological, psychological, and legal thinking about human action. Hence, the notion of a reasoning criminal-one who employs the same sorts of cognitive strategies when contemplating...
Women and Deviance: Issues in Social Conflict and Change
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book, first published in 1984, is a selective, annotated bibliography on women and deviance that includes historical, cross cultural, sociological, psychological, political, legal, philosophical, and social policy perspectives. This title is concerned with the origins, change, conflict, and consequences...
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice
A Global Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is the winner of the Division of International Criminology’s Distinguished Book Award 2014 and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section's 2015 Outstanding Book Award and the first fully internationalised book to focus on women as offenders,...
by Victoria E. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The United Nations has called violence against women "the most pervasive, yet least recognized human rights abuse in the world" and there is a long-established history of the systematic victimization of women by the state during times of peace and conflict. This book contributes to the established...
Making Crime Television
Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing...
Crime Prevention
Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2019
Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Tenth Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention, from physical design to...
Taking Stock
The Status of Criminological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Criminology is in a period of much theoretical ferment. Older theories have been revitalized, and newer theories have been set forth. Th e very richness of our thinking about crime, however, leads to questions about the relative merits of these competin paradigms. Accordingly, in this volume advocates...
by Tyrone Kirchengast
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial. Victims are increasingly participating in all phases of the criminal trial, with new substantive and procedural rights, many of which may...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and...
Criminalising Social Policy
Anti-social Behaviour and Welfare in a De-civilised Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent legislative and policy developments in contemporary Britain have ushered in a new approach to criminal justice. The focus on criminal dispositions and welfarism has given way to a strategy which now involves the management of social exclusion, dysfunctional and anti-social families and situational...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
This innovative and pioneering new book establishes links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely offering a detailed examination of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction.
Providing a sustained analysis, this ground-breaking book...