Criminology category: 4273 books
Transnational Organized Crime and Jihadist Terrorism
Russian-Speaking Networks in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has taken place within Russian-speaking social networks in Western Europe.
Studies have shown that while under certain circumstances links between criminal organizations and terrorist...
Torture as State Crime
A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Can we understand torture by focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded? This is the central question of this book which explores concepts of state crime for understanding and responding...
Women in War
Examples from Norway and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book examines what happens to women and gender relations in times of upheaval. The experience of Norway during World War II, with some visits to other parts of the world as well, is used to demonstrate general, gendered issues that are actualized in wars both past and present. The authors explore...
by Lonnie H Athens
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Lonnie H. Athens’ path-breaking work examines a problem that has baffled experts and the general public alike: How does a person become a predatory violent criminal?
In the original edition, the process that Athens labeled “violentization” encompassed four stages: brutalization, defiance,...
Killing on Command
The Defence of Superior Orders in Modern Combat
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book explores the unique social and environmental factors which influence soldiers to commit war crimes. With a focus on decision-making processes, this monograph provides a significant interdisciplinary analysis of how soldiers decide to follow the commands of their superior officers, even if...
Intimacy and Responsibility
The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
In what circumstances and on what basis, should those who transmit serious diseases to their sexual partners be criminalised? In this new book Matthew Weait uses English case law as the basis of a more general and critical analysis of the response of the criminal courts to those who have been convicted...
Showing Remorse
Law and the Social Control of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture. In capital trials in the United States, it can be a question of life or death whether a jury believes that a wrongdoer showed remorse. And in wrongdoings that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
In recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal institutions and an increasing presence of private companies...
by Mark Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power – discipline – that had inserted itself into the...
by Chris Grover
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines key relationships between material circumstances and crime, and analyzes the areas of social policy – in particular social security and labour market policy – that are most important in terms of dealing with inequality at the lower end of the income hierarchy. It seeks to explain...
Criminal Justice
An Introduction to Philosophies, Theories and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This new text encourages students to develop a deeper understanding of the context and the current workings of the criminal justice system. The first part offers a clear and comprehensive review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment, the history of justice and punishment...
Reconceptualising Penality
A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of ’three strikes’ laws and mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole - all of these developments appear to signify a new, harsher era or ’punitive turn’. Yet these features of criminal justice are not universally present in...
Criminal Accusation
Political Rationales and Socio-Legal Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks. Accusation demarcates specific subjects as the criminally accused, who then face courtroom trials, and possible punishment. It inaugurates a crime’s...
Virtually Criminal
Crime, Deviance and Regulation Online
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Amidst the sensationalist claims about the dangers of the Internet, Virtually Criminal provides an empirically grounded criminological analysis of deviance and regulation within an online community. It integrates theory and empiricism to forge an explanation of cybercrime whilst offering new insights...