Crime & Criminology

Fundamentals of Medical Practice Investigation fills an important gap in the resources for criminal investigators. Appropriate for novice medical i...

Voices from Criminal Justice, Second Edition, gives students rich insight into the criminal justice system from the point of view of practitioners,...

This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and ...

Whether you are taking this course as a part of a biology, counseling, history, political science, sociology, criminal justice, or any other area o...

Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression provides a much-needed engagement with questions of justice and reform within the current phase of glob...

Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the social and political processes that combined to construct a media-driven crisis con...

Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of three strikes laws and mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole - all of these...

This book provides the first systematic overview of the theoretical, empirical, clinical, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder....

The United States has by far the worlds largest population of incarcerated people. More than a million Americans are imprisoned; hundreds of thousa...

Over ten million people are incarcerated throughout the world, even though punishment theorists have struggled for centuries to morally justify the...

Could Anastasia have survived?Over a century has passed since Tsar Nicholas II, family and retinue were said to have been executed by Cheka forces ...

Joint Winner of the 2023 ASSAf Humanities Book Award in the Emerging Researcher Category Gang violence is a concern being debated by academics, pol...

Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention. M...

This ground-breaking new volume reviews and extends theory and research on the psychology of justice in social contexts, exploring the dynamics of ...

Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburns bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods ...

Immigration and School Safety utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to expose the complex relationship between immigration and school safety in the...

It's hard to live when you think you deserve to die When a tired old inmate is found dead in his cell, the prison is obligated to investigate and s...

This book discusses private policing conducted by fraud examiners and financial crime specialists when there is suspicion of white-collar crime. Th...

For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence. The Routledg...

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of t...

Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes commi...