Criminology category: 4273 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
'The social landscape of 'race' and 'ethnicity' within contemporary Britain has become increasingly diverse and complex. The old, exclusive research emphasis in criminology on the outcomes of social inequalities and policies is now challenged by an appreciation of how race and ethnicity are constructed...
by Jennifer Anne Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This book critically analyses how men in prison act out their masculine identities. It considers how men negotiate their time in prison, which can involve being placed into a feminine position relative to other men, and particularly looks at the subversion of heteronormative gender positionings through...
The Japanese Way of Justice
Prosecuting Crime in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal about the character of any society. In Japan, it is prosecutors who wield the greatest control over these values and who therefore reveal most clearly the character of the Japanese way of justice. In this...
The Political Economy of Punishment Today
Visions, Debates and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation...
Higher Education and Police
An International View
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective. Whilst not directly concerned with a classical comparison of education concepts from different countries, the broad range of international...
City of Suspects
Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners’ letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the...
Language and Crime
Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks....
by Pamela Davies, Peter Francis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
The new edition of this bestselling textbook comes completely revised and updated to take students on a guided tour of criminological research.
As a trusted companion, this book brings together a range of experts in the field to provide key perspectives on how to prepare, do and present...
Victims, Crime and Society
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book provides a thorough account of victimisation across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The second edition has been fully revised and expanded, with two parts now spanning the key perspectives and issues in victimology.
Covering theoretical, social and political contexts,...
by Maggy Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
In a world where global flows of people and commodities are on the increase, crimes related to illegal trafficking are creating new concerns for society. This, in turn, has brought about new and contentious forms of regulation, surveillance and control. There is a pressing need to consider both the...
The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System
A Sociological Analysis of Miscarriages of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The Innocent and the Criminal Justice System examines competing perspectives on, and definitions of, miscarriages of justice to tackle these questions and more in this critical sociological examination of innocence and wrongful conviction.
This book:
• is the first book of its kind...
Crime Opportunity Theories
Routine Activity, Rational Choice and their Variants
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. They emphasize the fundamental element in the criminal act of opportunity: how this arises, how it is perceived, evaluated and acted on by those with criminal dispositions....
by David A. Jenks, John Randolph Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Global Crime and Justice offers a truly transnational examination of both deviance and social controls around the world. Unlike comparative textbooks detailing the criminal justice systems of a few select nations, or cataloging types of international crimes that span multiple legal jurisdictions,...
Putting Fear of Crime on the Map
Investigating Perceptions of Crime Using Geographic Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Since first emerging as an issue of concern in the late 1960s, fear of crime has become one of the most researched topics in contemporary criminology and receives considerable attention in a range of other disciplines including social ecology, social psychology and geography. Researchers looking the...