Crime & Criminology

This is the first collection dedicated to the use of intersectionality as theory, framework and methodology in criminological research. It draws to...

The Diary of Jack the Ripper, which came to light in 1991, revealed the identity of the world's most notorious serial killer. At the time it was wi...

This explosive exposé reveals the shocking truth about Mohamed Al-Fayed's controversial 25-year reign at Harrods. To the public, he was t...

The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of ...

Wildlife forensics is the application of forensic science to the conservation and protection of non-domesticated animals, both in the wild and in c...

Robert Brand has given up on real women. Relationships just haven't ever worked out well for him. He has, however, found a (somewhat problematic) s...

"Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research" is a series of volumes that features scholarly work on the frontiers of interdisciplinary research o...

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods. How do residents, activists, and politicians na...

Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China’s Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker...

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods. How do residents, activists, and politicians na...

          Are victims of crime destined to have the rest of their lives shaped by the crimes they've experienced? ("What happened to the road map f...

A community built upon secrets and lies. One man’s hunt for justice.Jacob Taylor is driving home from a roadside bar and sees a young woman walking...

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment.   Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect of litera...

From Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually ...

This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America

‘Langley ... understands how to excite people about the past — more so, perhaps, than most academics’ -- THE NEW YORK TIMES'Philippa Langley has do...

Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workin...

Reflections on Methodology offers a new and engaging means of teaching Honours students or those starting a PhD in Sociology about methodological i...

The Reverend Russ Ford, who served as the head chaplain on Virginia’s death row for eighteen years, raged against the inequities of the death penal...

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of impri...

Issues related to democratic ideals and realities are very much at the forefront of many public discussions today. These questions move societies i...

This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from...

Reflections on Methodology offers a new and engaging means of teaching Honours students or those starting a PhD in Sociology about methodological i...

This analysis of policing throughout the modern world demonstrates how many of the contentious issues surrounding the police in recent years - from...

Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into...

In an innovative departure from the much-studied field of 'crime in the media', this lively book focuses its attention on the forces of law and ord...

Archaeological artifacts have become a traded commodity in large part because the global reach of Western society allows easy access to the world's...

This wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies, and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a ...

An Inside View into the Dark Side of a Music Icon He was the King of Pop, a superstar without equal, the idol of millions of young people around t...

Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the pub...

Abolitionist thought visualizes a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book...

On Tuesday morning, 23rd September 1975, the corpses of three unmarried siblings, last surviving members of the ancient Luxton clan of Winkleigh, N...

Praise for the Prison Creative Arts Project:"I cannot overstate how profoundly my experience with the Prison Creative Arts Project has shaped my li...

A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolitionBased on years of research by the criminal jus...

This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways i...

Michael R. Gottfredson and Travish Hirschi’s 1990 A General Theory of Crime is a classic text that helped reshape the discipline of criminology. It...

This wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies, and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a ...

Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer co...

An imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history.In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris sli...

"The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder brin...

First Published in 1975 Blackmail: Publicity and Secrecy in Everyday Life examines why blackmail is often taken more seriously than murder and why ...

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, poli...