Crime and criminology

This book analyses the criminalisation of the possession of extreme pornography through ss 63-68 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This volume presents a collection of essays from experienced crime analysts from around the world.

The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology, redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the Global South.

Contemporary police service delivery and performance are complex phenomena.

This innovative and timely work explores how the developmental criminology paradigm can be applied to understandings beyond criminal careers, to the development of more general antisocial behavior.

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, the first of two volumes edited by McCartan and Kemshall, focusses on perceptions of sexual offenders, and how risk is used by policy makers, stakeholders, academics and practitioners to both construct and respond to unknown and known sex offenders within the contexts of criminal justice, health and social policy.

This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape.

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 investigates how, while children used as soldiers are primarily perceived as victims of offences against international law, they also commit war atrocities.

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society.

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy.

Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations.

Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security.

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide.

This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War.

This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct.

This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of moral panics.

This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts.

This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830.

This book uses a philosophy of technology to demonstrate that guns are predisposed for an intentional use, making them inherently non-neutral artifacts.

This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory.

Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels.

This book investigates the links between human trafficking and national security in Southern Africa.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This book brings together research on personal robbery from psychology, criminology, group dynamics, and youth justice, to provide a comprehensive resource on this crime type.

This book is about the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims and parties involved in tackling cybercrime.

This interdisciplinary volume critically explores how the ever-increasing use of automated systems is changing policing, criminal justice systems, and military operations at the national and international level.

British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

This edited volume examines the use of militarised responses to different forms of criminal activity, discussing the outcomes and unintended consequences.

This book focuses on emotional engagement in academic research with victims of violence and testimonial documentation in Latin America.

This volume explores the role that European institutions have come to play in regulating national prisons systems.

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.

This book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire.

This book tells the fascinating story of William John MacKay, a man who dominated policing in New South Wales for three decades, until his death in 1948.

This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls.

Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias's figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power dynamics.

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community.

This book provides an authoritative overview of the contemporary phenomenon widely labelled as 'acid attacks'.

This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe.

Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico's drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves.

This superbly illustrated book examines all aspects of the use of modern post-mortem imaging in forensic investigations, which has flourished since the introduction of multidetector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa.

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War.

This book uniquely combines a critical examination of the extent and diversity of transphobic hate crime together with a consideration of the victims and offenders.