Victimology and victims of crime

This cutting-edge book examines the unique issues that transgender identities face globally in the criminal processing system through empirical and theoretical contributions.

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An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice.

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe, who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women in the North of England.

This book investigates the contested phenomena of Islamophobia, exploring the dichotomous relationship that exists between Islamophobia as a political concept and Islamophobia as a 'real' and tangible discriminatory phenomenon.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

This book advances conceptualisations and empirical understanding of the prison cell.

Using data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Hate Crime Statistics Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey, this brief highlights the uniqueness of hate or bias crime victimization.

This book examines serial homicidal poisonings in the modern era, to improve our contemporary understanding of poisons, poisoners, and investigation.

This book examines communication between police and residents of a designated crime 'hotspot' community in the Global South.

This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation.

This book, the first of a two volume study, provides an historical account of complaints against Metropolitan police officers between formation of the force in 1829 and codification of remedies for misconduct under the Police Act 1964.

Intimate Partner Violence is a serious social problem affecting millions in the United States and worldwide.

This handbook is an international, comprehensive, reference tool in the field of trafficking in people and slavery.

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding.

In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault.

This book argues that past inattentive treatment by state criminal justice agencies in relation to domestic abuse is now being self-consciously reversed by neoliberal governing agendas intent on denouncing crime and holding offenders to account.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.

The book analyses the difficulties the International Criminal Court faces with the definition of those persons who are eligible for participating in the proceedings.

This edited volume is a pioneering and comprehensive study of crime victimisation in India.

This book draws upon empirical data to offer a fresh and unique perspective on hate crime victimisation, using transphobic hate crime as a case study.

This textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice.

This book examines expectations for justice in transitional societies and how stakeholder expectations are ignored, marginalized and co-opted by institutions in the wake of conflict.

This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century.

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively explore interdisciplinary views on the link between gender, crime and delinquency.

This book proposes an interdisciplinary, multicultural and contemporary approach to examining the controversial links between migration and crime.

This book aims to increase understanding of alibis and corroborators, examining the role alibis play - or fail to play - in innocence cases.

This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding.

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book examines black and mixed-race men and women's experiences of policing in the UK.

This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery.

Despite a popular view that trials are the focal point of the criminal justice process, in reality, the most frequent way a criminal matter resolves is not through a fiercely fought battle between state and defendant, but instead through a process of negotiation between the prosecution and defence, resulting in a defendant pleading guilty in exchange for agreed concessions from the prosecution.

This book introduces a new and original sociological conceptualization of compromise after conflict and is based on six-years of study amongst victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka, with case studies from Sierra Leone and Colombia.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners in every chapter to provide a comprehensive and unique exploration of courts in Australia.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.

This book explains Japan's unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.

Providing an indispensable resource for students investigating sexual harassment in the United States, Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook is a comprehensive summary of history, current events, possible solutions, and resources.

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This edited volume is the first volume that researches female criminality in the Balkan region and provides insights about patriarchal relations, gender roles, and female criminal behavior.

This edited volume is the first volume that researches female criminality in the Balkan region and provides insights about patriarchal relations, gender roles, and female criminal behavior.

This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs - and provide the facts - about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States.

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Powerful' Observer 'Superb' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Radio Times __________Few people leave prison unchanged.

The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction.

The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction.

This book explores how neoliberal consumer capitalist ideals of meritocracy, competitive individualism, and responsibilisation have shaped trans people's subjectivity and lived experiences of harm.

This book explores how neoliberal consumer capitalist ideals of meritocracy, competitive individualism, and responsibilisation have shaped trans people's subjectivity and lived experiences of harm.

Sibling sexual abuse is believed to be the most common and long-lasting form of all intra-familial abuse, with estimates suggesting that it is five times more prevalent than parent-child sexual abuse.

Sibling sexual abuse is believed to be the most common and long-lasting form of all intra-familial abuse, with estimates suggesting that it is five times more prevalent than parent-child sexual abuse.

This book presents a socio-criminological study of environmental crime in the global South.