Causes & Prevention of Crime

This book focuses on what is probably the most frequently asked question about crime: Why do criminals offend? Renowned criminologist Robert Agnew ...

Can the boxing gym be recognised as an effective space for supporting desistance? Exploring the psychosocial manifestations of boxing, this enligh...

The main objective of this book is to propose an alternative criminal opportunity theory. The authors build upon social control and routine activit...

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the crimin...

Pressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory by Robert Agnew provides an overview of general strain theory (GST), one of the leading ...

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the crimin...

Whereas crime more generally has fallen over the last 20 years, levels of serious youth violence remain high. This book presents innovative researc...

James Gilligan lays the foundation for a complete re-thinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. He reveals the motives of men who c...

The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime? is the first book to examine the impact of globalization on our understanding of hate spe...

Do criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime, Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy thinking concerning the relations...

Community safety emerged as a new approach to tackling and preventing local crime and disorder in the late 1980s and was adopted into mainstream po...

Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects undertakes a systematic study of theories of the criminal justice system, which historically have...

This issue of the Forum focuses on wildlife crime. It contains articles by a range of researchers and academics with experience in the subject. For...

Neurologist Dr. Jonathan Pincus personally examined and probed into the family and medical history of numerous serial killers and other violent cri...

This new explanation of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking contemporary theory and criminal justice policy....

How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America? How did they come to occupy centre-stag...

How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America? How did they come to occupy centre-stag...

Any newspaper anywhere in the world, any day, carries news about illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money, or counterfeit go...

The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess ...

This is the only book by a criminologist to look at the full range of crime involving works of art: forgery, fraud, theft, smuggling, and vandalism...

Volume 30 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance brings together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to discuss a variety of aspects an...

Cesare Beccaria's influential treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundational work in the field of criminology. Three major themes ...

This important and original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision, is concerned with the key question ...

Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. ...

Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. ...

From its largest cities to deep within its heartland, from its heavily trafficked airways to its meandering country byways, America has become a na...

The question of inequality has moved decisively to the top of the contemporary intellectual agenda. Going beyond Thomas Piketty's focus on wealth, ...

The reporting of the evaluation of the McGruff campaign is quite comprehensive, and the conclusions and recommendations in the final chapter offer ...

For educators on the front line Violence in schools is everyone′s problem—when teachers can′t teach and students can′t learn, the community lose...

For educators on the front line Violence in schools is everyone′s problem—when teachers can′t teach and students can′t learn, the community lose...

The reporting of the evaluation of the McGruff campaign is quite comprehensive, and the conclusions and recommendations in the final chapter offer ...

The author′s wisdom and experience of a half century of employment, research, and teaching in the field of corrections is reflected in this volume....

Tragic school violence rocked the United States in the late 1990s and sent Americans scurrying to understand why these incidents occurred, how to p...

Retaining the focus and spirit of the widely adopted and acclaimed first edition, The Drug Legalization Debate, Second Edition, offers several alte...

"This book addresses, in a comprehensive and practical manner, the increasingly important topic of preventing youth violence. The scope of the book...

The public perception is that juvenile crime is out-of- hand and that no one can do anything about it. Research, however, shows that a mere 8% of j...

Designed for undergraduate juvenile delinquency courses, this book actively involves students in the literature of the discipline, presents the fie...

"This book addresses, in a comprehensive and practical manner, the increasingly important topic of preventing youth violence. The scope of the book...

The public perception is that juvenile crime is out-of- hand and that no one can do anything about it. Research, however, shows that a mere 8% of j...

The editors have assembled an outstanding group of authors knowledgeable and experienced in the causes and prevention of violence. The volume is an...

A comprehensive exploration, Studying and Prevention of Homicide offers thoroughly researched chapters by a distinguished group of contributors. Le...

What is meant by crime, crime prevention and crime control? Who defines the acts which are deemed as criminal? Who devises the sanctions and who ac...

A comprehensive exploration, Studying and Prevention of Homicide offers thoroughly researched chapters by a distinguished group of contributors. Le...