Criminology category: 4273 books
At Work in the Iron Cage
The Prison as Gendered Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women...
by Todd R Clear, Eric Cadora, John R Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs, and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.
Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice debate, this book argues that crime management...
The Criminal Act
The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more broadly.
Chapter 5 of this book is open access under a CC BY license.
by Marinella Marmo, Nerida Chazal
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Providing you with a wide-ranging introduction to key international issues in crime and its control, this book covers all essential theories, and clearly explains their relevance to the world today. Going beyond just looking at organized crime, the book covers a range of topics including:
Human...
Religious Diversity in European Prisons
Challenges and Implications for Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. Social scientists studying corrections have noted the important role that religious or spiritual practice can have on rehabilitation, particularly for inmates with coping...
Transnational Penal Cultures
New perspectives on discipline, punishment and desistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Focusing on three key stages of the criminal justice process, discipline, punishment and desistance, and incorporating case studies from Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australia, the thirteen chapters in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Interest in the study of state power, civil liberties, human rights, and state sponsored crime is growing and there is a need for a book which brings these topics together. This book, part of the Companions series, provides succinct yet robust definitions and explanations of core concepts and themes...
by Lucia Zedner
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts, policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between public safety and private protection, policing...
Talking Criminal Justice
Language and the Just Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Get high. Become addicted. Commit crimes. Get arrested and be sent to jail. Get released. Repeat. It’s a cycle often destined to persist, in large part because the critical step that is often missing in the process, which is treatment geared toward ensuring that addicts are able to reenter society...
The Evidence Enigma
Correctional Boot Camps and Other Failures in Evidence-Based Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Why do policymakers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence? How can scholars and practitioners encourage policymakers to listen to research? This book explores these questions, presenting a fascinating case study of a policy that did not work, yet spread rapidly to almost every...
Young People and Social Control
Problems and Prospects from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book explores young people’s experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK. In particular, the book focuses on disadvantaged young people’s experiences in education, in the labour market, with police and within the criminal justice...
Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence
Legal, Social and Therapeutic Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate ‘justice’ or redress. The theory and practice of restorative justice is rapidly developing and offers some well-argued new avenues for...
Traditional Organized Crime in the Modern World
Responses to Socioeconomic Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper—even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance. From traditional gangland enterprises such...