Crime and criminology

This Major Reference Work synthesizes the global knowledge on cybercrime from the leading international criminologists and scholars across the social sciences.

This book provides an analysis of whether the International Criminal Court can be regarded as an International Criminal World Court, capable of exercising its jurisdiction upon every individual despite the fact that not every State is a Party to the Rome Statute.

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.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence.

This book challenges the given dichotomies between crime and harm, and criminology and zemiology.

This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking.

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

This book is a transnational study of rural and anti-Semitic violence around the triple frontier between Austria-Hungary, Romania and Tsarist Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This book explores the challenges of combating terrorism from a policing perspective using the example of the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC (RUC) in Northern Ireland.

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.

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system?

This 2nd edition of the Handbook explores how to conceptualize new realities of race and ethnic relations.

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.

In the years since the September 11th 2001 attacks, the al-Qaeda phenomenon has become one of the most written about, yet crucially misunderstood, threats of the 21st century.

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This textbook provides an overview for students in Criminology and Criminal Justice about the overlap between the criminal justice system and mental health.

This book examines the gun-related policy responses to three school shooting incidents in the United States.

This collection is the first exploration into green crime in Mexico, offering a unique critique of the environmental problems facing Mexico today.

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

This is a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary phenomenon of online medicine purchasing.

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

This volume offers a general overview on the handling and regulating electronic evidence in Europe, presenting a standard for the exchange process.

This book offers a collection of original contributions to current research available on Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) by engaging with current literature and unpublished research in the field.

There is little doubt that cyber-space has become the battle space for confrontations.

This book examines the emergence and early development of forensic psychology in Germany from the late nineteenth century until the outbreak of the Second World War, highlighting the field's interdisciplinary beginnings and contested evolution.

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 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.

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental criminological research on cyberbullying, cybervictimization and intervention.

This book describes the main patterns and trends of drug trafficking in Latin America and analyzes its political, economic and social effects on several countries over the last twenty years.

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts.

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime.

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications.

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

This book outlines the need for media companies to embrace an audience-centric approach to thrive in today's fiercely competitive global market.

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how emerging adulthood impacts the lives and behaviors of young people.

This textbook focuses on the criminality and victimization of the elderly population.

Little is known about life imprisonment and the process of releasing offenders back into the community in Ireland.

Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and scientific publications.

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

This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law.

Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities.

This book focuses on the phenomenon of hacktivism and how it has been dealt with up to now in the United States and the United Kingdom.

This book discusses how to deal ethically with people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the police, courts and correctional services.

This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China.

Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control from around the world, critically examining the strategies and practices schools employ to monitor students and control their behavior.

Family Group Conferences are seen as a progressive and influential form of practice in child welfare across the globe.

This book presents the most important ideas behind Bayes' Rule in a form suitable for the general reader.

This book provides an updated overview of current international human rights law relating to the police.

This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources.