Crime & Criminology

The exponential growth of sexual commerce, migration and movement of people into the sex industry, as well as localised concerns about transactiona...

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the inv...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

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

Why do international policing missions often fail to achieve their mandate? Why do United Nations Police officers struggle when serving in foreign ...

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...

Information Risk and Security explains the complex and diverse sources of risk for any organization and provides clear guidance and strategies to a...

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the c...

This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine piracy in Southeast Asia and the regional and internationa...

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seem...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces e...

Crime and Justice in the Trump Era documents the impact of Trump administration policies on (1) violence against women, (2) the treatment of person...

Racial Profiling: Using Propensity Score Matching to Examine Focal Concerns Theory combines theory and propensity score matching to offer readers a...

This book critically analyses fundamental principles of EU law for the control of international economic crime. Discussing how the reporting syste...

Beyond Empiricism expands the discourse on theories of criminal behavior. It considers institutional, social, and individual issues related to crim...

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confin...

Since the 9/11 attacks the world has witnessed the creation of both domestic and international legal instruments designed to disrupt and interdict ...

This groundbreaking monograph asserts the need for the establishment of an exclusionary rule of evidence in China as a means of protecting the peop...

A centuries-old crime, human trafficking occurs not only in undeveloped countries, but also in some surprising locations. In the United States, ind...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

This book is concerned to explore the idea of imaginary penalities and to understand why the management of criminal justice and criminal justice sy...

Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation ...

This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bri...

Jeanne Stinchcombs book makes an excellent contribution to the field of corrections serving as a substantial resource for those teaching correction...

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'...

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime especially vio...

Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts: Creative Disruptions through Art Programs for and with Teens in a Correctional Institution explores art progr...

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of los...

The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is unders...

In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has no...

What are the requirements for a just response to criminal wrongdoing? Drawing on comparative and empirical analysis of existing models of global pr...

This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology. It does so thro...

This book presents arguments and proposals for constraining criminalization, with a focus on the legal limits of the criminal law. The book approac...

One of the oldest and most extensive forms of criminology falls within what is referred to, among other names, as social ecology. Beginning with th...

Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality brings together international research exploring the range of gendered harms to women involved in prostitu...

Virtual worlds are the latest manifestation of the internet's inexorable appetite for development. Organisations of all kinds are enthusiastically ...

Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either c...

Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navig...

What are the challenges to the prevention of transnational bribery by multinational corporations in international business transactions? This book ...

Statistical methods provide a logical, coherent framework in which data from experimental science can be analyzed. However, many researchers lack t...

What contribution has the law made to the work of analyst and patient in the consulting room? And what insights may be drawn from putting psycholog...

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociologi...

This volume provides analyses of a range of subjects and issues in the death penalty debate, from medicine to the media. The essays address in part...

Human trafficking captured the attention of the global community well over a decade ago, inspiring multifarious international, national, regional a...

Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking examines the nature, magnitude, and gravity of prostitution and sex trafficking--and the relationshi...

This book examines contemporary media stories about women who kill their children. By analyzing media texts, motherhood blogs, and journalistic int...

Child sexual abuse by clergy within the Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a social and political discourse over the last three decades. The anal...

What is the meaning of punishment today? Where is the limit that separates it from the cruel and unusual? In legal discourse, the distinction betwe...