Causes & Prevention of Crime

The Joy of Stats offers a reader-friendly introduction to applied statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences and public policy. Pe...

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...