Criminology category: 4273 books
by John P. Crank, Linda S. Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors, resulting in wars, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each...
by Riccardo Berti
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book examines the conciliatory institutions that operate within criminal law in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Despite having the same legal traditions, the two countries have taken very different political and social roads over the past century. Taking these important factors into...
A History of Forensic Science
British beginnings in the twentieth century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk. This is timely as fear of crime...
The Enigma of a Violent Woman
A Critical Examination of the Case of Karla Homolka
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Karla Homolka has proven to be a figure of enduring interest to the public and media for the last 20 years. However, despite the widespread Canadian and international public commentary and media frenzy that has encircled this case, Homolka herself remains an enigma to most who write about her.
In...
The Sports Doping Market
Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book examines sports doping from production and distribution, detection and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from athletes most at risk to the role of organized crime in sports doping,...
Men, Masculinities and Violence
An Ethnographic Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The BSC Critical Criminology Network’s Book of the Year 2016
Why do some men use physical violence against others? How do some men come to value physical violence as a resource? Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted with men involved in serious violence and crime over a period...
Foot Patrol
Rethinking the Cornerstone of Policing
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This Brief reviews the history of foot patrol and the recent, research-driven resurgence of foot patrol in places such as Philadelphia. It summarizes and critiques existing literature on the subject, examining the efficacy of foot patrol.
At the time the Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment...
Sex Crimes
Patterns and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
A comprehensive survey of sex offenders and sexual offenses
This succinct and highly accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of a wide range of sexual behaviors and sex crimes, thoroughly addressing criminal actions from "nuisance" sex crimes, such as voyeurism and exhibitionism,...
Penal Exceptionalism?
Nordic Prison Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
In the growing field of comparative criminal justice, the Nordic countries are regularly used as exceptions to the global move towards growing rates of imprisonment and tougher, less welfare-oriented crime-control policies.
Why are the Nordic penal institutions viewed as so ‘different’...
Preventing Human Trafficking
Education and NGOs in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book explores human trafficking, examining the work of grass-roots, non-profit organizations who educate and rehabilitate human trafficking victims and at-risk youth. Through interviews with staff and children, the author compares the work of two NGOs on-the-ground in Thailand with the work of...
Preventing Terrorism and Controlling Risk
A Comparative Analysis of Control Orders in the UK and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This Brief takes a provocative look at existing socio-legal literature with a comparative study of terrorism control orders, focusing on how the concept of pre-emption fits within a traditional criminological framework. This timely work examines how such measures might be conceived and interpreted...
Fake Meds Online
The Internet and the Transnational Market in Illicit Pharmaceuticals
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken marijuana and prostitution as the world's largest market for criminal traffickers. This increase has been particularly...
The Gang's All Queer
The Lives of Gay Gang Members
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities Section
The first inside look at gay gang members.
Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine...