Crime & Criminology

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment is the most comprehensive collective work that has yet been published on the philosophical aspe...

It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported ...

The fifth edition of The Criminal Process continues in the tradition of previous editions in providing an insightful and stimulating analysis of ...

Through cultural criminology, this book brings together existing research to provide an overview of historical and modern moral panics related to h...

This book, the second volume in the set, offers an in-depth, global analysis of femicide and feminicide from legal, sociological, and criminologica...

This short book provides a European-wide survey of mental health and probation. Drawing on a significant study, it explores the knowledge and attit...

Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their...

Youve read the shocking one-sided tale of international drug kingpin Owen Hanson in Rolling Stone, VICE, and the LA Timesbut now hes ready to tell ...

Youve read the shocking one-sided tale of international drug kingpin Owen Hanson in The Rolling Stone, VICE, and the LA Timesbut now hes ready to t...

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gath...

Sex Crimes: Research and Realities, 2nd edition, provides succinct overviews and details of the research regarding sex crimes and the persons who c...

Gendering Criminology provides a contemporary guide for understanding the role of gender in criminal engagement and experiences as well as reaction...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...

Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challe...

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison Wandswo...

Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastru...

Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration makes use of extensive new empirical material to explore the phenomena of migration, human smuggling a...

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and int...

49% of the worlds population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusi...

Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or ac...

Few criminologists have drawn attention to the fact that widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental crimes are neglect...