Criminology category: 4273 books
Criminal Justice
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This revised and expanded third edition offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Starting with an overview of the main theories of the causes of crime, this book explores and discusses the operation of the main criminal justice agencies...
Researching Crime and Justice
Tales from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book provides an introduction to research and some of the methods in the field of crime and justice and related areas, including police, prisons and criminal justice policy making.
Less a dry 'how to' book, it is concerned rather to provide a wide-ranging discussion that illustrates the...
Homicide Data Sources
An Interdisciplinary Overview for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This Brief provides a detailed guide to national data sources that collect and report data on homicides in the United States, and some key international sources abroad. It provides in-depth coverage of well-known sources, and highlights more obscure sources, providing a useful tool for research design...
Technology, Crime and Justice
The Question Concerning Technomia
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more comprehensive ways there are increasing questions about how the 'rights' and 'wrongs' of technological use can be adequately categorized. To date, the scope of such questions have been limited – focused upon specific technologies such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book provides the most current thinking on effective interventions in the lives of criminal offenders. Original articles by leading criminologists provide in-depth analyses of “turning points” in the desistance process experienced by criminal offenders. An understanding of the sources of...
Global Perspectives on Desistance
Reviewing what we know and looking to the future
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In recent years attention has switched from how adolescents are attracted into crime, to how adults reduce their offending and then stop – the process of desistance. There are now around a dozen major longitudinal and in-depth studies around the world which have followed or are following offenders...
The Terrorist Identity
Explaining the Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Who would strap a bomb to his chest, walk into a crowded subway station and blow himself up? Only by examining how a terrorist understands his own identity and actions can this question be answered. The authors of The Terrorist Identity explore how the notion of self-concept combined with membership...
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or imagined crimes related to women were shaped and...
Crime, Risk and Insecurity
Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book presents new empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary Western societies. The volume includes contributions from distinguished social researchers from...
by Theo Gavrielides, Vasso Artinopoulou
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy...
Constructing Crime
Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Policing Terrorism, Crime Control, and Police-Community Relations
Learning from the Israeli Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This timely and important work takes a critical look at the shifting role of police, who are becoming increasingly responsible for handling terrorism threats on top of their regular responsibilities. With an unprecedented empirical study, the authors of this book examine whether this increased focus...
Female serial killers in social context
Criminological institutionalism and the case of Mary Ann Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
To date, approaches to understanding serial murder have focused on individual cases rather than the social context in which they occurred. Written by leading criminologists and world experts on serial murder, this book marks a departure by situating nineteenth century serial killer Mary Ann Cotton...
Prisoner Reentry
Critical Issues and Policy Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the field of prison reentry. Comprising reviews of empirical...