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Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking: The Voice of Chinese Women

by Min Liu

Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking examines the nature, magnitude, and gravity of prostitution and sex trafficking—and the relationship between them—in contemporary China. This imaginative...


Social Work and Intimate Partner Violence

by Mary Allen

Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe consequences for women's physical, mental and sexual health. Therefore,...


Doing Probation Work: Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation

by Rob Mawby & Anne Worrall

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation...


Wrongful Convictions

by C. Ronald Huff & Martin Killias

This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways:? (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions,...


Victims of Environmental Harm: Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law

by Matthew Hall

In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states...


Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape: A multidisciplinary response to an international problem.

by Miranda A.H Horvath & Jessica Woodhams

Whilst there is considerable literature on rape from various perspectives, there is very little that focuses on rape committed by multiple perpetrators (also referred to as group or gang rape). For the first...


Men After War

by Stephen McVeigh & Nicola Cooper

This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity...


Women, Punishment and Social Justice: Human Rights and Penal Practices

by Margaret Malloch & Gill McIvor

The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number...


Understanding Criminal Justice: A Critical Introduction

by Azrini Wahidin & Nicola Carr

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice. Understanding Criminal Justice seeks to provide students with...


Boy Racer Culture: Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

by Karen Lumsden

On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the 'respectable' motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments...


Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

by Patricia Van Voorhis & Emily Salisbury

This text presents foundations of correctional intervention, including overviews of the major systems of therapeutic intervention, diagnosis of mental illness, and correctional assessment and classification....


American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context

by Casey Welch & John Randolph Fuller

American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context provides a complete picture of both the theory and day-to-day reality of criminal courts in the United States. The book begins by exploring how democratic...


Struggle Against the State: Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India

by Ashok Swain

Drawing on an in-depth examination of the existing literature on social mobilization and extensive fieldwork conducted in India, Ashok Swain questions how displaced people mobilize to protest with the help of...


Politicization of Sexual Violence: From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping

by Carol Harrington

The politics of rape was a marginal field until the 1990s when rape suddenly emerged as an international security problem. Carol Harrington traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international...


International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance

by Christopher K. Lamont

This is a comprehensive study of compliance with legal obligations derived from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's (ICTY) Statute. Through the use of three models of compliance based...


Anatomy of Violence: Understanding the Systems of Conflict and Violence in Africa

by Belachew Gebrewold

With a focus on Africa, this study examines three structurally interdependent conflict systems to highlight the complexities of transboundary and transregional conflict systems. The systemic approach permits...


The Law Relating to Financial Crime in the United Kingdom

by Karen Harrison & Nicholas Ryder

Outlining the different types of financial crime and its impact, this book is a user-friendly, up-to-date guide to the regulatory processes, systems and legislation which exist in the UK. Each chapter has a...


A Community-Based Approach to the Reduction of Sexual Reoffending: Circles of Support and Accountability

by Chris Wilson, Terry Philpot & Stephen Hanvey

A Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This pioneering approach, based on restorative justice...


Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology

by Bruce A. Arrigo & Christopher R. Williams

Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture. Utilizing the insights of ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and...


Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations

by Steven P. Lab

This timely revision of Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations provides an up-to-date collection of the research on crime prevention. The prevailing approaches and strategies are organized...