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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,...


Rural Racism

by Neil Chakraborti & Jon Garland

Rural issues are currently attracting unprecedented levels of interest, with the debates surrounding the future of 'traditional' rural customs and practice becoming a significant political concern. However,...


Public Opinion Criminal Justice

by Jane Wood & Theresa A. Gannon

Public opinion is vital to the functioning of the criminal justice system but it is not at all clear how best to establish what this is, and what views people have on different aspects of criminal justice and...


Psychology Crime

by Francis Pakes & Jane Winstone

Society today is fascinated by crime. Crime is a hot topic in the media, so that people are continually exposed to criminal events, portrayals of those who commit them, and the suffering of victims. Yet the...


Problem-oriented Policing Partnerships

by Karen Bullock, Rosie Erol & Nick Tilley

This book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-oriented policing. Drawing upon over 500 entries to the Tilley Award...


Prison Governors

by Shane Bryans

This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that...


Policing Public Disorder

by David Waddington

This book draws on a wide range of studies of collective conflict and the policing of crowds and social movements to provide an understanding of the causes and management of public disorder. It seeks to describe...


Policing the Legacy of Lawrence

by Nathan Hall, John Grieve & Stephen Savage

February 2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the publication of the Inquiry into the events surrounding the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. This book marks this anniversary and examines various...


Captured by the Media

by Paul Mason

This book turns on the television, opens the newspaper, goes to the cinema and assesses how punishment is performed in media culture, investigating the regimes of penal representation and how they may contribute...


Ageing, Crime Society

by Azrini Wahidin & Maureen Cain

The relationship between ageing and crime has been a much neglected issue, the focus rather being on youth. This books aims to redress this imbalance, bringing together a group of leading authorities to address...


Addressing Offending Behaviour: Context, Practice and Value

by Simon Green, Elizabeth Lancaster & Simon Feasey

Offending behaviour is one of the most talked about issues in contemporary society. What can be done to stop people reoffending? What can be done to help people escape their criminal lifestyles? This book aims...


Restorative Justice, Self-interest Responsible Citizenship

by Lode Walgrave

Lode Walgrave has made a highly significant contribution to the worldwide development of the restorative justice movement over the last two decades. This book represents the culmination of his vision for restorative...


Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Evidence, Policy and Practice

by Stephen Smallbone, William L. Marshall & Richard Wortley

Public policy responses to child sexual abuse are dominated by interventions designed to take effect only after offenders have already begun offending, and after children have already been sexually abused. Comparatively...


Restoring Justice after Large-scale Violent Conflicts

by Ivo Aertsen, Jana Arsovska & Holger-C Rohne

This book provides a comparative analysis of the potential of restorative justice approaches to dealing with mass victimization in the context of large-scale violent conflicts focusing on case studies from Kosovo,...


Terrorism, Rights the Rule of Law

by Barry Vaughan & Shane Kilcommins

The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism. Many countries are reviewing their security procedures and questioning whether due process rights hinder them in the ‘war on terror'....


Street Gangs, Migration Ethnicity

by Frank van Gemert, Dana Peterson & Inger-Lise Lien

This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs....


Technocrime: Technology, Crime and Social Control

by Stéphane Leman-Langlois

This book is concerned with the concept of 'technocrime'. The term encompasses crimes committed on or with computers - the standard definition of cybercrime - but it goes well beyond this to convey the idea...