Criminology category: 4273 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service.
It takes full account of the many changes that the Probation Service has undergone over the last few years, and is currently undergoing...
by Peter Raynor, Iain Crow, James Bonta
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision...
Gender and Crime
A Human Rights Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human rights framework.
Integrating empirical, theoretical and policy-related material, this Second Edition** **has been significantly updated, and now...
Flexible Workers
Labour, Regulation and the Political Economy of the Stripping Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality. This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate...
Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence
Governing the Urban Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic tool-kit for a critically engaged public criminology.
Timber Trafficking in Vietnam
Crime, Security and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book is the first systematic investigation into the problem of timber trafficking in Vietnam, providing a detailed understanding of the typology of, victimization from, and key factors driving this crime. The book first reveals a multifaceted pattern of timber trafficking in Vietnam, comprising...
by Diana F. Johns
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
At a time when the scale of imprisonment in the United States has reached a historic high, researchers estimate that more than 600,000 individuals a year are released from prison to return to their home communities. These individuals have serious needs, such as finding employment and housing, reuniting...
by Francesco Vecchio
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security. Based on extensive, original ethnographic research, this book examines the situation...
Emotional Literacy in Criminal Justice
Professional Practice with Offenders
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice. This book seeks to uncover some of the underground emotional work of practitioners and make visible the impact of both positive and negative emotions, which play a crucial role in practitioner-offender relationships.
Exploring...
Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland
Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict...
by Dr Maggie Wykes, Dr Kirsty Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
`This is a very impressive piece of thorough scholarship. It is an important book that highlights the need to consider gender when developing policies to respond to interpersonal violence. It is written in a clear and accessible style and should be required reading for all criminal justice students.'...
The Crime of All Crimes
Toward a Criminology of Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Cambodia. Rwanda. Armenia. Nazi Germany. History remembers these places as the sites of unspeakable crimes against humanity, and indisputably, of genocide. Yet, throughout the twentieth century, the world has seen many instances of violence committed by states against certain groups within their borders—from...
Prisons, Terrorism and Extremism
Critical Issues in Management, Radicalisation and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This volumeprovides an overview of intervention and management strategies for dealing with terrorist and extremist offenders in prisons.
The management of terrorist and extremist prisoners has long been recognised as a difficult problem in prisons. In most countries, such offenders are relatively...