Crime and criminology

The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'.

In the 1980s the relationship between alcohol and aggression and violence was a controversial one.

With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type.

First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality.

This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally.

There is a dramatic rise of novel drug use due to the increased popularity of so-called designer drugs.

First published in 2001, The Criminalisation of Stalking fills a much-needed gap by drawing upon a range of methodologies to present a thorough and comprehensive examination of the way in which stalking became perceived as a pressing and prevalent social problem in need of legal intervention, as well as providing a critical evaluation of the efficacy and sufficiency of the legal responses.

This brief investigates school shootings and their impact on individual, community, and societal levels.

Drawing on original empirical data with men who buy sex, this book takes a fresh look at the relationships clients have with female sex workers.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to criminological theory and examines how crime and deviance are constructed.

In his time working for the Daily Sketch and Daily Mail, Brian Scovell probably reported on more Test matches and more international football matches than any other English sports writer.

The relationship between police and the communities and citizens they serve has long been a topic of study and controversy.

In this book, Vincenzo Ruggiero offers a typology of different forms of political violence.

This book highlights and examines the level, reach and consequences of corruption in international criminal justice systems.

Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily.

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the field of criminology and justice studies.

Grim, Victorian, notorious-for 150 years Mount Eden Prison held both New Zealand's political prisoners and its most infamous criminals.

Terrorism, Law and Policy: A Comparative Study is a textbook offering a comparative study of the terrorism-related legislation, policy and practice introduced from international governmental bodies such as the UN and the European Union, and individual states, with a focus on Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US.

This volume is the most comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of in-depth analyses on human rights violations committed in war.

Introduces a formal theory of linguistic individuality, a perspective-changing framework moving the field towards more cognitively realistic methods of authorship analysis.

Television shows that we might call 'prestige television' represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex.

This unique book discusses and explains the practical aspects of crime reduction partnerships from a police officer's perspective.

Educational Planning of Court-Involved Youth provides a framework for alleviating chronic barriers for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

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

This text is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the wide range of mathematical and statistical tools needed by the forensic scientist in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of experimental measurements.

A major reappraisal of crime and punishment in AmericaThe huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest.

Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of American substance abuse.

This reference book comprehensively reviews the significance of DNA technology in forensic science.

Charles Binaggio and his underboss, Charles Gargotta, rose through poverty in Missouri to eventually lead the Kansas City mob.

In an attempt to abolish prostitution, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex in 1999, while simultaneously decriminalising its sale.

This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s.

This book offers a new look at international security management combining practical applications and theoretical foundations for new solutions to today's complex security and safety challenges.

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the nineteenth century, and the impact of copyright reform on publishing practices.

The study of victims of crime is a central concern for criminologists around the world.

This book examines South Africa's post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the "e;new"e; South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project.

As a result of recent scandals concerning evidence and proof in the administration of criminal justice - ranging from innocent people on death row in the United States to misuse of statistics leading to wrongful convictions in The Netherlands and elsewhere - inquiries into the logic of evidence and proof have taken on a new urgency both in an academic and practical sense.

First published in 1937, India captures the tense and tumultuous developments in India that would eventually result in her freedom a decade later.

It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support.

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every fourth mother conceived her first-born before her wedding day; and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate - figures that were paralleled in many countries of Europe and the Commonwealth at the time.

Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The 'Public Be Damned' provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations.

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This handbook covers tested and proven DNA forensic testing methodologies, forensic bioinformatics techniques, case studies and current forensic legal framework for investigation of variety of crimes and provides a clinching evidence for speedy justice.

One man's account of Alcatraz, a rare and intimate memoir of life inside the world's most notorious prison.

The Margins of European Law attempts to provide a critical and sceptical approach to European law.

Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China's Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism.

Rural Victims of Crime offers a pioneering sustained assessment of 'the rural victim'.

This research examines the role of prosecutors within the United States and in Switzerland and is completed by an overview of the prosecution institutions in France and Germany.

This book offers a first-hand insight into the work of policing scholars and the research that they undertake.