Crime and criminology

This handbook provides a unique overview of rehabilitation as practiced internationally in criminal justice.

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

This volume analyzes the development of the reactions to Covid-19 by governments, the public and the crime patterns in 16 European countries.

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

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning.

This handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a key question facing prison policymakers, architects and designers - what kind of carceral environments foster wellbeing, i.

This book brings together leading authorities from the fields of international human rights law, criminology, legal medicine, and political science with international human rights judges and UN experts to analyze the current situation of detainees in Europe, the Americas and Africa.

This volume looks at the emerging perspective to the social license and white-collar and corporate crime in criminal justice.

This book examines desistance from offending amongst men in County Cork - the largest county in the Republic of Ireland.

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

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 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 book explores men's attraction to violent extremist movements and terrorism.

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

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

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 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 focuses on the criminalization trend and process regarding the internal migration in contemporary China from the perspective Law-in-Action.

This book examines the organisational culture of the Irish police service, speaking in particular to those interested in policing organisations and organisational culture.

This Brief proposes best practices for assessment and intervention with sex trafficking survivors, rooted in the existing theory and practice literatures.

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

This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so.

This book examines how Muslim communities in the Netherlands perceive and experience extremism, counter-radicalisation policies, and Islamophobia.

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 examines the interpretation of the risk-based approach (RBA) and its application across the banking industry.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the current research on sexual grooming.

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

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

This book examines the contemporary rise in community violence across the United States and globally from sociological and criminological perspectives.

This edited collection showcases innovative, up and coming researchers' work in the field of sex work studies across labour/work and relationships.

This handbook explores the dynamic new field of Environmental Restorative Justice.

The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film and media.

This book challenges the notion that the New Zealand Police are one of only four global police services that does not have routinely armed officers, using arguments and facts drawn from 2000 to 2019, a period of important change for the organisation and its relationship with firearms, particularly following the outrages of the Christchurch mosques terrorist massacres in 2019, and the 2020 shooting death of a young police constable in Aotearoa New Zealand.

This book provides a brief introduction to the growing field of animal maltreatment evaluation and treatment, with a special emphasis on clinical training from a forensic psychology perspective.

This book interrogates Conservative government penal policy for adult and young adult offenders in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

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

This book presents the first academic study offering a holistic assessment of violence against women (VAW) in Scotland, both online and offline.

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

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

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion - how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict?

Grounded in an explicit focus on men's roles and responsibilities in the fight against sexual harassment, this book creates a deeper understanding of why sexual harassment against women occurs and how we, as a society, can better respond to and prevent it.

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 presents a systematic study of terrorism from the standpoint of economic analysis.

This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment.

This book aims to increase understanding of alibis and corroborators, examining the role alibis play - or fail to play - in innocence cases.

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.

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.