Crime and criminology

This edited collection offers in-depth essays on outlaw motorcycle clubs and street gangs.

This book explores the subject of research misconduct: its definition, what behaviours should fall under its label, and the types of preventive and repressive procedures that should be put to practice to combat it.

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 examines the experiences and the roles of the police deployed on peacekeeping and intervention missions in Afghanistan, Bougainville, Cyprus, Haiti, Kosovo, Namibia, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, and Ukraine.

"e;If a child falls victim to a crime, or becomes witness to it, they may well be questioned by the police.

This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.

This book illustrates the main modern mineralogical analytical procedures that can be applied for forensic purposes on various typologies of materials and substances and has both theoretical and practical approach.

This book updates the recent quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical literature on legitimacy, focusing on how it can be measured in diversified research environments.

This book introduces a novel approach to analysing and mapping criminal behaviours.

This book presents both a new theoretical framework for the criminalisation of hate, referred to as "e;law as social justice liberalism"e;, and a comprehensive analysis of hate crime laws that have been enacted globally.

This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime.

This book calls attention to the impact of stigma experienced by people who use illicit drugs.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers' susceptibility to increased harm.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics is a comprehensive collection of recent research on the ethics of sexual behavior, representing a wide range of perspectives.

This book draws on empirical work to examine the debates surrounding domestic violence disclosure schemes (also known as Clare's Law), focussing on England and Wales with comparisons to similar jurisdictions.

This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work covering the interdisciplinary facets of security.

This brief offers an overview of the prevailing debates in police oversight and accountability through an analysis of policing in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.

This edited collection addresses the topic of prison governance which is crucial to our understanding of contemporary prisons in Latin America.

This book offers Walters's latest evolution of criminal lifestyle theory.

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women.

This book tackles the problem of complexity within IT environments, i.

This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions.

This book provides an insightful analysis of recent developments in immigration, asylum and citizenship law in the broader social and political context.

This edited volume presents nine new state-of-the-science chapters covering topics relevant to psychology and law, from established and emerging researchers in the field.

This book examines South Africa's post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the "e;new"e; South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project.

This book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This Brief provides specific recommendations for police professionals to reduce the influence of implicit bias on police practice, which will improve both effectiveness (in a shift towards evidence-based, rather than bias-based) practices and police legitimacy.

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity?

This book focuses on the displacement and convergence of transnational crimes in North Africa and in the area of the Mediterranean Sea, providing empirical analysis of human smuggling and of drug trafficking.

This book locates #MeToo's traction among elites with "e;womenomics"e; theories that attribute feminized poverty, welfare dependency, and sexual violence to traditional femininity and toxic masculinity.

This richly illustrated two-volume book offers a comprehensive and essential reference guide for veterinary pathologists and clinical veterinarians interested in performing animal necropsies for forensic casework.

This book explores the development of the discipline of Criminology on the island of Ireland, through conversations with leading criminologists.

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

This book explores the use of restorative justice approaches in the context of environmental crimes.

This book examines Mental Health Courts (MHC) within a socio-legal framework.

This book discusses Stuart Hall's unique contribution to criminology.

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

This brief investigates school shootings and their impact on individual, community, and societal levels.

This edited collection introduces and defines the concept of "e;comparative restorative justice"e;, putting it in the context of power relations and inequality.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment.

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work.

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.

Policing and firearms: it is a crucial relationship.

This brief addresses the question of the various ways in which mental health-related issues have become police responsibility.

This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear - the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety - with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations.

This edited volume presents the diversity of comparative criminology research in Asia, and the complex theoretical and methodological issues involved in conducting comparative research.

This brief examines 36,263 homicides in Chicago over a 53-year study period, 1965 through 2017, at micro place grid cells of 150 by 150 meters.

The meaning of 'forgiveness' and its role within restorative justice are highly contested.