Criminology category: 4273 books
Dirty Assets
Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Criminal and Terrorist Assets
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Adopting a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach, this book focuses on the emerging and innovative aspects of attempts to target the accumulated assets of those engaged in criminal and terrorist activity, organized crime and corruption. It examines the ’follow-the-money’ approach and explores...
The World of Crime
Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
*"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This volume addresses the varied response to domestic violence in a comparative, international context. The chapters are laid out in a consistent format, to cover: the nature of the domestic violence problem, theoretical explanations, the criminal justice response, as well as health care and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This is the first accessible, succinct text to provide definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts relating to the expanding field of crime, harm and victimisation. Written by a wide range of experts, it includes theories, ideas and case studies relating to victims of conventional crime...
Drugs and Crime
Theories and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Why are we so concerned about drugs and crime? Is the relationship between drug-taking and criminal behaviour as straightforward as it is sometimes made to appear? What should be done about the problem?
This thought-provoking book argues that much current thinking about drugs and crime is simplistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the field of criminology and justice studies.
This book aims to meet the need for a comprehensive, reliable and accessible overview of the subject. It...
Sex Offender Laws, Second Edition
Failed Policies, New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Praise for the First Edition:
"Sex Offender Laws . . . is a good source for [a] balanced, objective, and thorough critique of our current sex offender policies as well as a source for accurate information about a very heterogeneous population. . . . The message that sexual abuse is often a...
Restorative Justice
Ideas, Values, Debates
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, neither meets the needs of crime victims nor prevents reoffending. In its place, they suggest, should...
by Julie Ham
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Public discourses around migrant sex workers are often more confident about what migrant sex workers signify morally but are less clear about who the ‘migrant’ is. Based on interviews with immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia, Sex Work, Immigration...
by Sophie Body-Gendrot
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The current growth of incidents of public disorder around the world can be seen as symptomatic of major transformations in globalized society, government, and technology. But while disorder is routinely perceived as a disturbing phenomenon, it can also be a catalyst for positive transformation and...
Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault...
Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior...
Communities that Care
Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care, four leading experts on prevention...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops, about risk and protective factors at different ages, and about the effects of life events on the course of development. This volume advances knowledge about these theories of...