Criminology category: 4273 books
Entrapping Asylum Seekers
Social, Legal and Economic Precariousness
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The use of illegal drugs is so common that a number of commentators now refer to the 'normalisation' of drug consumption. It is surprising, then, that to date very little academic work has explored drug use as part of contemporary popular culture. This collection of readings will apply an innovatory,...
Perceptions of Female Offenders
How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Female offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical ‘womanly’ behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly debate about how male and...
by David Matza
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The first C. Wright Mills Award-winning book, Delinquency and Drift has become a recognized classic in the fields of criminology and social problems. In it, Matza argues persuasively that delinquent thought and delinquent action are distorted reflections of the ideas and practices that pervade contemporary...
by Joanna Jamel
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders. Trans people are marginalised in society and already negotiate complex physical and emotional challenges in order to live authentically...
Re-Making Kozarac
Agency, Reconciliation and Contested Return in Post-War Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book explores agency, reconciliation and minority return within the context of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. It focuses on a community in North-West Bosnia, which successfully reversed the worst episode of ethnic cleansing prior to Srebrenica by fighting for return, and then establishing one of...
by Thomas Barker
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
This brief covers the unique crime group of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are adult criminal associations composed of “bikers” living a deviant lifestyle that includes individual, group, and club criminal behavior. These groups are sometimes called one percenters, due...
Preventing Crime
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Traditional "schools" of crime prevention, like the criminal justice model, social crime prevention or situational crime prevention, have proved to be too narrow and do not combine well with other approaches. However, each of these models provides important insights and contributions for...
Sentencing
Time for a Paradigm Shift
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified. However, it is increasingly portrayed as a social activity which should be more responsive to the pluralistic needs and values of individuals and communities in contemporary society. It will therefore have...
The Lawbreaker
A Critical Study of the Modern Treatment of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The early 21st century saw better prison conditions and a lower imprisonment rate however public worry over supposed increasing violent crime as perpetuated by the media in the 1930’s led to a return to harsher sentences and fuller prisons. Originally published in 1933, The Lawbreaker analyses British...
by Karen Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The relationship between crime and community has a long history in criminological thought, from the early notion of the criminogenic community developed by the Chicago sociologists through to various crime prevention models in research and policy. This book offers a useful theoretical overview of...
Crime Prevention
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been put in place in recent years in an...
Anti-Social Behaviour
A multi-national perspective of the everyday to the extreme
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“Neatly and succinctly takes readers through ways to understand and interpret the label of ‘antisocial’ behaviour in a wider context, showing how it is socially, historically and culturally produced as well as understood in professional health and policing or correctional contexts.”
- Cathy...
Crime and Justice, Volume 47
A Review of Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its...