Criminology category: 4273 books
Transforming Criminal Justice?
Problem-Solving and Court Specialisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and criminals in a more cost-effective way? Over the last decade in particular, the United Kingdom, in common with other jurisdictions such as Canada, the United States (US) and Australia,...
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory
Alienation and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Prison Management, Prison Workers, and Prison Theory develops a new conception of prison infrastructure, organization, and policy to explore how workers and administrators are essential in the development of culture and morality within the prison environment. Stephen C. McGuinn demonstrates that effective...
Cross-Border Law Enforcement
Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each...
by Cyndi Banks
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency. It encourages readers to adopt an analytical understanding encompassing not only juvenile crime, but also the broader context within which the conditions of juvenile criminality...
by Merry Morash
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This collection re-imagines the field of criminology with insights gleaned from feminist theory. Works included here illustrate that gender is a key organizing principle of social life. This means that men and women have gender, that patriarchy as well as gender must be theorized, and that other systems...
Speaking Truths to Power
Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in the transitional, post-conflict...
Football Hooliganism, Fan Behaviour and Crime
Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have occurred within football in recent years, this timely collection brings together essays about football, crime and fan behaviour from leading experts in the fields of criminology, law, sociology, psychology and cultural studies.
Crime Prevention in the 21st Century
Insightful Approaches for Crime Prevention Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to guiding efforts in preventing crime. The collection is divided into seven sections that cover cutting edge approaches to crime prevention:
the offenders’ perspective on crime prevention
crime...
Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention
Essays in Honor of Ernesto U. Savona
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This volume collects new contributions to research on mafias, organized crime, money laundering, and other forms of complex crimes, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The chapters for this volume are original peices written in honor of the retirement...
Police Brutality, Misconduct, and Corruption
Criminological Explanations and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct. Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.
According to an examination of 50 years of police...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis of juvenile justice systems across the world. The second edition of this *Handbook *has been updated with 13 new chapters, now covering a total of 34 countries, across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Prisons and imprisonment have become a commonplace topic in popular culture as the setting and rationale for fiction and documentaries and most people seem to have a clear notion of what it is like in prison, ranging from the idea of the prison cell as a cosy nook with fast internet access to that...
Experiencing Imprisonment
Research on the experience of living and working in carceral institutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The growing body of work on imprisonment, desistance and rehabilitation has mainly focused on policies and treatment programmes and how they are delivered. Experiencing Imprisonment reflects recent developments in research that focus on the active role of the offender in the process of justice. Bringing...