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Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence: The Voices of Witnesses and Court Members at War Crimes Tribunals

by Sharratt

Adopting a feminist approach, 'Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence' offers extensive new empirical material, challenging the assumption that the deterrent effect of making rape trials more visible would reduce...


Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland

by Duggan

Queering Conflict offers a unique culturally specific analysis into the ways in which homophobia in Northern Ireland has been informed and sustained during the latter half of the 20th century. This book takes...


Guarding Against Crime: Measuring Guardianship within Routine Activity Theory

by M. Reynald

This ground-breaking book examines the critical role that citizens play in guarding against crime. By focusing on the ways in which residents are able to capably guard their residential environments from crime,...


The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime

by M. Beaver & Walsh

This work spans multiple levels of analysis and thus multiple disciplines, offering an essential overview of the current state of research in the field. The authors are experts in a variety of disciplines (sociology,...


World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control

by Decorte & Potter

As we start the second decade of the 21st century, the new cannabis industry continues to fascinate both casual and academic observers of the drug scene. Researchers around the world have become increasingly...


Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy

by Hunt & Milhet

Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs...


Security Officers and Policing: Powers, Culture and Control in the Governance of Private Space

by Button

This book examines the legal tools available to private security officers, how they utilize them and how they fit into the broader security systems. The book provides insights for researchers and policy-makers...


Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations

by Donald Dutton & Daniel Jay Sonkin

Take an updated approach to treating partner violence!

Intimate Violence: Contemporary Treatment Innovations examines new and innovative approaches to treating domestic violence, de-emphasizing the unilateral,...


Restorative Justice, Theoretical foundations

by Elmar G. M. Weitekamp & Hans-Jürgen Kerner

This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented and discussed at the fourth international restorative justice conference, held at the University of Tübingen. The contributors include...


Restorative Justice in Context

by Elmar G. M. Weitekamp & Hans-Jürgen Kerner

This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented and discussed at the fourth international restorative justice conference, held at the University of Tübingen. The contributors include...


Restorative Justice the Law

by Lode Walgrave

Restorative justice has developed rapidly from being a barely known term to occupying a central role in debates on the future of criminal justice. But as it has become part of the mainstream of debate, so new...


Repositioning Restorative Justice

by Lode Walgrave

Restorative justice has become an increasingly important element in reform and change to criminal justice systems throughout the western world, and there are many reasons for satisfaction with the progress that...


Punishment, Places Perpetrators

by Gerben Bruinsma, Henk Elffers & Jan De Keijser

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important...


Punishment Politics

by Michael Tonry

Labour has embarked upon a root and branch remaking of the criminal justice system in England and Wales, with a mass of new legislation implemented or planned. It has ensured a continuously high profile for...


Psychology Policing

by Peter Ainsworth

Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of policing, police training and the academic study of policing. This book provides a highly accessible account of the way in which psychological...


Private Policing

by MARK BUTTON

Over the past few years there has been exponential growth in the private security industry as concerns about safety and risk have become increasing preoccupations in the western world. At the same time there...


Policing, A short history

by Philip Rawlings

This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide a historical foundation to today's debates. Policing:...


Policing, An introduction to concepts practice

by Alan Wright

This book provides a highly readable introduction to the role and function of the police and policing, examining the issues and debates that surround this. It looks at the 'core functions' of the police, the...


Policing, Surveillance Social Control

by Tim Newburn & Stephanie Hayman

This book reports the result of research carried out in a busy London police station on the role and impact of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in the management and surveillance of suspects - the most thorough...


Policing, Race Racism

by Mike Rowe

Over recent years race has become one of the most important issues faced by the police. This book seeks to analyse the context and background to these changes, to assess the impact of the Lawrence Inquiry and...