Criminology category: 4273 books
Delinquency Theories
Appraisals and applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Delinquency Theories: Appraisals and applications provides a fulsome and accessible overview of contemporary theories of juvenile delinquency.
The book opens with a comprehensive description of what a theory is, and explains how theories are created in the social sciences. Following on, each...
Privacy and the American Constitution
New Rights Through Interpretation of an Old Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book explains a paradox in American constitutional law: how a right not discussed during the ratification debates at Philadelphia and not mentioned in the text has become a core component of modern freedom. Rather, privacy is a constitutional afterthought that has gained force through modern...
Stranger Rape
Rapists, Masculinity and Penal Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Kevin Denys Bonnycastle’s Stranger Rape is an in-depth study of the lives of fourteen men who raped women unknown to them. Using new data derived from official offender files, offender program observations, and the men’s personal histories, Bonnycastle documents, compares, and contrasts their...
Manufacturing Phobias
The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Fear is a powerful emotion and a formidable spur to action, a source of worry and – when it is manipulated – a source of injustice. Manufacturing Phobias demonstrates how economic and political elites mobilize fears of terrorism, crime, migration, invasion, and infection to twist political and...
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights
From Moral Panics to States of Denial, Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to...
Introduction to Criminal Justice
Practice and Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
A practical and applied introduction to criminal justice
Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process shows you how to think practically about the criminal justice system by offering you a proven, problem-based approach to learning. Bestselling authors Kenneth J. Peak and Tamara...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2003
"As a good encyclopedia does, the Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime brings together articles that offer diverse insights into the topic, while at the same time giving the reader a feel for its overall scope."
--AGAINST THE GRAIN
This comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia...
Sex Offender Laws, Second Edition
Failed Policies, New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 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...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The Routledge Handbook on Victims’ Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Although criminal justice systems in developed Western countries are much alike in form, structure, and function, the American system is unique. While it is structurally similar to those of other Western countries, the punishments it imposes are often vastly harsher. No other Western country retains...
Toward Justice
Broadening the Study of Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Designed as a text for Criminal Justice and Criminology capstone courses, Toward Justice encourages students to engage critically with conceptions of justice that go beyond the criminal justice system, in order to cultivate a more thorough understanding of the system as it operates on the ground in...
Juvenile Delinquency
A Sociological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology departments at both four year and two year institutions.
Taking a sociological approach, Juvenile Delinquency, Tenth Edition, discusses delinquency as...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This new volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena. Even in today's so-called multicultural, post-racial world racial and ethnic concerns prevail in many aspects of modern law. Contributors to this volume examine...
Female Prisoners, AIDS, and Peer Programs
How Female Offenders Transform Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This book highlights a neglected area in the field of rehabilitation of female offenders with AIDS. It provides data to show how women, working as HIV peer educators in prison, utilize their peer experiences as a transition point for rehabilitation both inside and outside of the penitentiary....