Social science

Policing Scotland

by Daniel Donnelly & Kenneth Scott

This is the first modern book on policing in Scotland and aims to provide an up-to-date and authoritative account of recent developments, taking full account of the impact of devolution and the work of the Scottish...

Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections

by Róisín Ryan-Flood & Rosalind Gill

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis...

Criminology: A Sociological Introduction

by Eamonn Carrabine, Pam Cox & Maggy Lee

The new edition of Criminology: A Sociological Introduction builds on the success of the first edition and now includes two new chapters: Crime, Place and Space, and Histories of Crime.

More than a collection...

Community Justice

by Jane Winstone & Francis Pakes

This book provides and accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice. The probation service in particular has undergone...

Communities, Crime Social Capital in Contemporary China

by Lena Zhong

This book explores the theoretical and empirical dimensions of community crime prevention in China, examining in particular the role of social capital in a rapidly modernizing economic, social and political...

Bullying among Prisoners

by Jane Ireland

This book aims to present key aspects of the prison-based bullying research which has taken place over the last few years. It is a field in which there has been considerably increased interest. One of the main...

Handbook of Internet Crime

by Yvonne Jewkes & Majid Yar

An essential reference for scholars and others whose work brings them into contact with managing, policing and regulating online behaviour, the Handbook of Internet Crime emerges at a time of rapid social and...

What Else Works?: Creative Work with Offenders

by Jo Brayford, Francis B Cowe & John Deering

What Else Works? has developed out of a growing awareness amongst practitioners that centralized notions of what works and 'one size fits all' approaches to work with offenders and other groups is inevitably...

Geographic Thought: A Praxis Perspective

by George Henderson & Marvin Waterstone

Without social movements and wider struggles for progressive social change, the field of Geography would lack much of its contemporary relevance and vibrancy. Moreover, these struggles and the geographical scholarship...

Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice

by Stephen Case & Kevin Haines

This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy...

Computer Misuse: Response, Regulation and the Law

by Stefan Fafinski

This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well...

Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective

by Adam Crawford

This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis...

Justice in Transition

by Anna Eriksson

This book provides a unique account of the high-profile community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the conflict in Northern Ireland....

Transitions to Better Lives: Offender Readiness and Rehabilitation

by Andrew Day, Sharon Casey & Tony Ward

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research - both theoretical and empirical - that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming. It is...

Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

by Sharon Shalev

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.

Drawing on...

Making People Behave: Anti-social Behaviour, Politics and Policy

by Elizabeth Burney

'Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British government's...

Understanding Criminal Careers

by Keith Soothill, Claire Fitzpatrick & Brian Francis

The study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing...

State Crime in the Global Age

by William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski & Ronald Kramer

State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh,...

Who to Release?

by Nicola Padfield

This book is concerned to explore the changing role of the Parole Board across the range of its responsibilities, including the prediction of risk and deciding on the release (or continued detention) of the...

Safety Crimes

by Steve Tombs & Dave Whyte

Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight,...