Crime and criminology

A New York Times Best Seller!

A New York Times Best Seller!

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

Rats, tainted food, leaky sewage pipes: they only began to hint at the anarchy inside the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange.

The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to confront one of the most urgent global challenges of our time violent radicalisation and extremism.

This book contends with the question of how to decolonise criminology and discusses a number of key aspects of the debate.

"e;Provides a very clear, easily readable introduction to the wide range of criminological theories.

This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights.

?

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial disparities at the heart of current law - disparities that, according to many, generate a system of criminal injustice.

This volume considers the most appropriate criminal jurisdiction to prosecute aggravated sex trafficking of the kind associated with northern Albanian crime groups.

Embark on a journey through the recent groundbreaking developments in face recognition (FR) systems with our second edition.

This book interrogates the transnational field of (anti-)corruption and elite crime.

?

Thirteen personal accounts of solitary confinement's devastating impact in the United States criminal justice system.

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics.

Nigeria has become one of the hotbeds of cybercrime since the liberalization of the telecommunication industry began in 1996.

This book is an invaluable reference for those new to the field of criminology, who are looking for a clear outline of the major perspectives and traditions found in criminology.