Causes & Prevention of Crime

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, poli...

This book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young...

This book is concerned with the development of prevention policies and approaches that involve intervention 'early' in the lives of children, young...

This book brings together key debates within cultural studies, media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship between the media and c...

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, poli...

The main objective of the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is twofold: (1) to provide original chapters that cover ...

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control. Quan...

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control. Quan...

‘Anyone interested in protecting themselves or others should read this book.’ - Neil Basu QPM, former head of UK Counter Terrorism PolicingTake the...

‘Anyone interested in protecting themselves or others should read this book.’ - Neil Basu QPM, former head of UK Counter Terrorism PolicingTake the...

Imagine a peaceable place of learning, where the total focus is on teaching and helping students learn. From superintendents to classroom teachers,...

Situational crime prevention is the art and science of reducing opportunities for crime. Despite accumulating evidence of its value in reducing man...

The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberran...

Crime scene investigators are the foundation for every criminal investigation. The admissibility and persuasiveness of evidence in court, and in tu...

Responding to Money Laundering has its origin in the International Conference on Preventing and Controlling Money Laundering and the Use of Proceed...

By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological en...

This book considers how the social construction of crime and the criminalising of political expression impact upon different stages in a violent po...

By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological en...

School violence is a burning issue these days. This book provides an in-depth analysis of violence prevention programs and an assessment of their e...

School violence is a burning issue these days. This book provides an in-depth analysis of violence prevention programs and an assessment of their e...

From internal control structures that are not fraud-specific toinsufficient communication in the fraud discovery-to-investigationand conviction pro...

Criminal behaviour continues to be a matter of major publicconcern. How society should respond to it and what should be donewith those who repeated...

This key work exposes international studies from leading social sciences researchers who use various theoretical perspectives and methodological or...

This highly acclaimed criminology text presents an up-to-date review of rational choice theories, including deterrence, shaming, and routine activi...

This book provides a definitive review of knowledge about bar room environments and their regulation, and provides directions for the prevention of...

Boys Gone Wild examines why some professional football players participate in deviant, and sometimes illegal, behavior while others do not. Accordi...

In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural d...

Theoretically and methodologically diverse, Volume 28 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses important questions of crime, punishment, p...

Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of policing, police training and the academic study of policing. This book provide...

Applied psychology has become increasingly important in the work of policing, police training and the academic study of policing. This book provide...

This important study is an award-winning monograph of what interventions work (and what do not) in high crime Black neighborhoods. The focus of the...

The Retailer's Guide to Loss Prevention and Security is an introduction to retail security. It covers the basic principles, the various techniques ...

"The POSCO Strategy" traces the metoric rise of South Korea's Pohang Iron and Steel Company and the impact it has had on that smalll agrarian count...

Willie Sutton, a notorious American bank robber of fifty years ago, was once asked why he persisted in robbing banks. "Because that's where the mon...