Causes & Prevention of Crime

Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics examines the most current and significant terr...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How sho...

Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their...

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues suc...

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular mediaCSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming forensically...

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It us...

Fraudulent activity can approach you or your organization through a variety of avenues, ranging from the cyber world, social media, unsolicited e-m...

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states. This book...

When it comes to adopting evidence-based approaches, does the size of an organization really matter? This practical guide brings leading police and...

Written by leading experts in the field, this timely collection highlights current strategies and thinking in relation to prevention of sexual viol...

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nig...

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and...

The Cybersecurity landscape is a daunting one today. It is nothing like it was 10 years ago. Now, it has become very complex, covert, dynamic, and ...

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the authors 45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated ...

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discuss...

Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the ability to clarify our t...

This title was first published in 2001. This book explores the complex and often striking differences between national and local perspectives, part...

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfa...

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have prolifera...

In Philip K. Dicks short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed ...

Much of a societys resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hi...

Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminolog...