Criminology category: 4273 books
Rape Trials in England and Wales
Observing Justice and Rethinking Rape Myths
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault. Using new data from an in-depth observational study of rape trials, this book asks why attempts to improve survivor experiences at court have...
Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights
Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a case disposal decision is reached. It is also a largely hidden, but vital, part of police work and an under-explored aspect of police studies. This book provides a much-needed comparative perspective on...
Actor-Network Theory and Crime Studies
Explorations in Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Developed by Bruno Latour and his collaborators, actor-network theory (ANT) offers crimes studies a worthy intellectual challenge. It requires us to take the performativity turn, consider the role of objects in our analysis and conceptualize all actants (human and non-human) as relational beings....
The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition)
Origins of the Penitentiary System
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the authors and a foreword from Professor Jonathan Simon (UC Berkeley). In the two essays, Melossi and Pavarini reflect on the origins, development and fortune of The Prison and...
More Wordcrime
Solving Crime With Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr. John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world's top forensic linguists specialising in authorship.
Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide to domestic disputes gone bad to allegations...
Historical Pollution
Comparative Legal Responses to Environmental Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This volume examines legal matters regarding the prevention and fighting of historical pollution caused by industrial emissions. "Historical pollution" refers to the long-term or delayed onset effects of environmental crimes such as groundwater or soil pollution.
Historical Pollution...
Rehabilitation Work
Supporting Desistance and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers, without due recognition of the experience and knowledge of practitioners. Not enough is known about the cultures and conditions in which rehabilitation occurs. Why is it that...
Street Casino
Survival in violent street gangs
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Gang violence is on the increase in certain neighbourhoods. There is an urgent need for a fresh perspective that offers insight into gang structure, organisation and offending behaviour to explain this increase. Using the findings from an extensive ethnographic study of local residents, professionals...
Crime and Punishment in Britain
The Penal System in Theory, Law, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book, first published in 1965, describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system defined, accounted for, and disposed of offenders. As an early work in criminology, it focuses on differences between, and changes in, the views held by legislators, lawyers,...
A Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims
First Results from the ISRD3 Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3). ISRD is a major international research collaboration that now covers some 35 countries. It surveys young people aged 12 to 16 in their schools, asking about their experience...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Native Americans are disproportionately represented as offenders in the U.S. criminal justice system. Routledge Handbook on Native American Justice Issues is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of American Indigenous populations and their contact with justice concerns and...
Under the Counter and Over the Border
Aspects of the Contemporary Trade in Illicit Arms
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Although the illicit arms trade has evolved over recent years, despite the end of the Cold War it appears to be as vibrant as ever. From Bosnia and Kosovo to Angola and Sierra Leone, illicit arms flows have played a key role in areas of contemporary instability and violence. Against this background,...
The Rise of Extreme Porn
Legal and Criminological Perspectives on Extreme Pornography in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This book analyses the criminalisation of the possession of extreme pornography through ss 63-68 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. It documents the legislative history of the offence and offers a criminological perspective on the role of the media in the construction of the extreme...
Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy
Towards a Social Democratic Criminology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Robert Reiner has been one of the pioneers in the development of research on policing since the 1970s as well as a prolific writer on mass media and popular culture representations of crime and criminal justice. His work includes the renowned books The Politics of the Police and Law and Order: An...