Crime and criminology

This volume presents a collection of essays from experienced crime analysts from around the world.

This book critically examines transitional justice in Mexico.

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

This book brings together research on personal robbery from psychology, criminology, group dynamics, and youth justice, to provide a comprehensive resource on this crime type.

This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic.

Substance misuse and addictions are a public health issue.

This book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods.

This book describes how young Black men on a disadvantaged housing estate in London navigate the estate's expectations for their behaviour as they operate within a street code that endorses violence, knife-carrying and challenging masculinity.

This book offers an historical and contemporary analysis of policing and police-citizen relations in Nigeria, to understand why people co-operate (or don't) with the police.

The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped what it means to be a European citizen.

This book offers an exciting overview of how the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism currently deals with allegations and/or evidence of fraud and corruption.

This book explores the criminalisation of irregular migration in Europe.

This interesting volume focuses on a set of phenomena which increasingly alarm the political world and public opinion: from the more obvious ones like torture, disease, human trafficking, abuse, genocide, displacement, to more subtle forms found in sports, technology and law.

The substantially revised third edition of The Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date.

This book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power.

This book provides a novel criminological understanding of white-collar crime and corporate lawbreaking in China focusing on: lack of reliable official data, guanxi and corruption, state-owned enterprises, media censorship, enforcement and regulatory capacity.

This book outlines a recommended Icelandic security force as part of the country's defence against sub-strategic threats such as human trafficking by criminals or border incursions by other states.

Policing in the US and many western nations is in an era of crisis, facing extensive calls for reformation and change.

How does culture affect action?

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine.

This book examines mass shootings and attempted shootings that occurred across 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, known as post-communist states.

This book provides a critical study of environmental regulation and its enforcement in New Zealand, situated within green criminology.

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 book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.

This book is a critical examination of recently introduced individual accountability regimes that apply to the financial services industry in the UK (SMCR) and Australia (BEAR and the forthcoming FAR), together with a forthcoming new individual accountability regime ( in particular, SEAR) in Ireland.

Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world.

This textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice.

This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as legal, community and activist responses to these harms.

This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law.

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe's C.

This book brings together literature, empirical research findings from two projects, and policy analysis to examine how some forces in England have adopted the approach of treating crimes against sex workers as hate crimes.

Forgeries present a daunting problem to art historians, museums, galleries and curators who face challenges in determining the authenticity of paintings.

This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice of education within prisons around the world.

This book examines disability hate crime.

This book describes the nature of trafficking in persons in West Africa, focusing on labor and sexual exploitation in the region, and recommends tailor-made solutions established by the Catholic Church in light of governmental authorities' failure to effectively combat this scourge of humanity.

This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute's complementarity principle.

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, open banking, virtual assets, and artificial intelligence have become the buzzword of this decade.

This book is the first interdisciplinary study of the rule of law in an environment of complementary culture.

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.

Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map.

This book examines the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the UK Parliament and efforts to tackle it.

This book examines the extent to which peacebuilding processes such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration are possible in the attempt to demilitarize Nigeria's oil region and establish a stable post-conflict environment for nurturing durable peace.

This book explores the role that religion plays in the lives of imprisoned homicide offenders.

This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power.

This volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "e;art crimes"e;, with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application.

This book explores the emergence of an ius puniendi outside state criminal law and beyond international criminal law.

This book provides in-depth coverage of guns, gun violence and gun homicides from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to, gender, suicide, peaceology and police (in)action.

This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women's prison in Lima, Peru.

This edited book provides a comprehensive survey of the modern state of the art in forensic linguistics.

This book presents both a survey of and commentary upon the penal process of England and Wales between 1945 and 2020 from the primary perspective of prisons and their operational management.