Causes & Prevention of Crime

Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as an...

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

Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as an...

This book examines key relationships between material circumstances and crime, and analyzes the areas of social policy – in particular social secur...

This book examines key relationships between material circumstances and crime, and analyzes the areas of social policy – in particular social secur...

This report is an evaluated overview of European practices for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and focuses on exemplars form...

This book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-orien...

Every year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and...

This volume presents recent insights in the sociological study of surveillance and governance in the context of criminal justice and other control ...

In recent years, the idea of emergence, which suggests that observed patterns in behavior and events are not fully reductive and stem from complex ...

In recent years, the idea of emergence, which suggests that observed patterns in behavior and events are not fully reductive and stem from complex ...

From media images of "mean girls" to the disproportionate punishment of Black, Latina and/or queer girls in schools and the justice system, female ...

The UK’s ‘Prevent’ strategy aims to dissuade vulnerable groups from supporting terrorism, and women have been involved since its inception in 2006....

Based on empirical research, this edited collection brings attention to the experiences and perspectives of women who are 'mothering from the insid...

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention. Sustained academic interrogation is necessary, therefore, to reduce the exte...

The Generality of Deviance advances the idea that all forms of deviant, criminal, reckless, and sinful behavior have one thing in common: the tende...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In recent decades the v...

The Origins of Criminological Theory offers a new sort of theory textbook, both in content and concept. Whereas other texts offer a mainly twentiet...

This sixth volume Advances in Criminological Theory is testimony to a resurgent interest in anomie-strain theory, which began in the mid-1980s and ...

From media images of "mean girls" to the disproportionate punishment of Black, Latina and/or queer girls in schools and the justice system, female ...