Crime & Criminology

This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant her...

Music may not be an obvious area for a criminologist's attention, but there are many areas appropriate for analysis in the relationship between sou...

In After Homicide, the author explores what the families of murder victims confront as they encounter the multiple members of the criminal justice ...

This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminali...

This book explores young people's 'nested' and 'political' ecological relationships with crime through an empirical investigation of the important ...

This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into ac...

This volume addresses a variety of issues related to economic crisis in the broadest sense of the term, involving diverse national and internationa...

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of Americas thalidomide ...

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of Americas thalidomide ...

This new volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses issues of race and ethnicity within the law and law-related phenomena. Even in to...

This book explores the relationship between the Irish police and ethnic minorities, made particularly pressing by the rapid ethnic diversification ...

This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The c...

This book explores the burgeoning interest in alternative and innovative justice responses to sexual violence both within and outside the legal sys...

Given China's rapid development, many observers assert that world economic growth and key economic indicators are now depending on the country alo...

Perspectives on Crime: An Introduction to Criminal Justice emphasizes three main concepts. The first concept encompasses the idea of decisions made...

This volume brings together a collection of essays, many of them scholarly classics, which form part of the debates on three questions central to c...

Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and a...

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrantsbut also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented ...

Murder Inc. is the latest blockbuster by Ireland's most respected crime writer and journalist, Paul Williams. Murder Inc. is the definitive account...

Nigeria has become one of the hotbeds of cybercrime since the liberalization of the telecommunication industry began in 1996. The scale and magnitu...

Bringing criminal law to life. Criminal Law Today, 6/e, brings criminal law to life by relating it to real stories from todays headlines. The tex...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and contemporary Britain, providing a...

The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results. This book considers the issue from a variety...