Criminology category: 4273 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal justice system. It critically discusses key concerns involved in realizing economic and social justice, including systemic issues in economic and social...
by Marilyn Corsianos, Walter DeKeseredy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Violence against Women in Pornography illuminates the ways in which adult pornography hurts many women, both on and off screen. A growing body of social scientific knowledge shows that it is strongly associated with various types of violence against women in intimate relationships. Many women who...
Criminalising the Purchase of Sex
Lessons from Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In an attempt to abolish prostitution, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex in 1999, while simultaneously decriminalising its sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states, promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. What has come to be referred to...
The Problem of Pleasure
Leisure, Tourism and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since...
Creating Deviance
An Interactionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Creating Deviance is a basic text introductory text for deviance studies. Dotter identifies the convergences between social deviance, the interactionist tradition, and the construction of cultural meaning. He provides an in-depth analysis of the significant theoretical contribution of interactionism...
Parricide and Violence Against Parents throughout History
(De)Constructing Family and Authority?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are...
Making Work, Making Trouble
The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Thoroughly updated to include events that have occurred in the decade since it was originally published, this second edition of Making Work, Making Trouble re-establishes this work as the pre-eminent study of prostitution in Canada. Detailing the various forces that have presented prostitution as...
Justice and Security in the 21st Century
Risks, Rights and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society.
The issue of enhancing security without undermining justice – managing risk without undermining the rule of law – has always been problematic. However, recent developments such...
Fragile Migration Rights
Freedom of movement in post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration. In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the constitution and laws of the new Russian Federation appeared to herald a complete break with the repressiveness of the...
Internet Sex Work
Beyond the Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry. The authors use extensive new datasets to explore the working practices, safety and regulation of the sex industry, for female, male and trans sex workers primarily working in the UK. Insights...
Policing Cities
Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world’s major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London,...
Shades of Deviance
A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Written in a unique format, Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance, offering 56 politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This book will be essential reading for undergraduate students in...
by Les Moran, Beverley Skeggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Sexuality and the Politics of Violence offers a timely and critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology and critical legal...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Few would dispute the power of climate change to lead to profoundly destructive weather events. At the same time, the possibility of climate change as a consequence—or even a cause—of criminal events is far less recognized. As the earth grows warmer, issues regarding land use, water rights, bio-security,...