Crime and criminology

This book takes a critical approach to examining British and Italian occupational health and safety enforcement policies and questions the legal and political principles that underpin them.

This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions.

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

This book brings together a thought-provoking collection of original contributions to the study of sexual crime prevention.

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

This book offers distinct insights into the sources of state legitimacy in Africa by incorporating an analysis of non-state actors' role in service delivery.

This book presents the latest research and novel case studies on crime and corruption in the tourism and hospitality industry.

This book explores the textures of women's narratives of patriarchal oppression of female sexuality.

This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination.

This volume discusses EU criminal justice from three perspectives.

This book is amongst the first of its kind in presenting a case study of voyeurism from a forensic psychology perspective and within the societal context.

This volume explores violent perpetration in diverse forms from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.

This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between women and men, and presenting indirect and direct instances of asymmetrical constructions of gender in public and private roles.

This hands-on textbook provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of digital forensics.

This innovative book examines the use of ethnography and fieldwork in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research.

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

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

While the themes of radicalization and Islamophobia have been broadly addressed by academia, to date there has been little investigation of the crosspollination between the two.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters.

This book presents the latest research and novel case studies on crime and corruption in the tourism and hospitality industry.

This book provides inspiration for social workers to explore the possibilities of using Photovoice to engage with communities.

This book will present the most advanced research on forensic archaeology presented during the annual European meetings in the last 3 years.

This book examines the implications of the professional and judicial discourses on migrant youth in the Belgian youth justice system.

This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services.

This book is the newest and one of the very few existing examinations of the full nature of corruption throughout Central and South America.

This book explores the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), the creation of which was approved in the Regulation adopted by the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council on 12 October 2017.

"e;There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

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

This book focuses on the power of the 'ordinary', 'everydayness' and 'embodiment' as keys to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion.

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 textbook provides an overview of the major types of fraud and corrupt activities found in private and public agencies, as well as the various methods used to prevent fraud and corruption.

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration.

This book examines the topical issue of global drug policy and outlines five steps that could be taken to improve its effectiveness.

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

This book critically discusses the role of technology for counter-terrorism in general, and for securing our vulnerable open societies in particular.

This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments.

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issues, policies, and strategies for addressing the symptoms and root causes of violence against women (VAW) in sub-Saharan Africa.

This forward-thinking volume examines the rule of law from a global perspective, in the context of a growing array of transnational challenges and threats  As the United Nations (UN) notes, the rule of law constitutes the basis "e;on which fair and just societies are built.

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 examines the processes for social integration and social cohesion among young people, drawing on data collected from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study, which covered 35 studies.

As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system.

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

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs.

How do ordinary people experience and make sense of the informal justice system?

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.

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

This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis of juvenile justice systems across the world.

This book argues that there is a strong normative argument for using the criminal law as a primary response to corporate crime.