Crime & Criminology

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to probation. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help stude...

This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health. Police services around the world are innovating at pace in order to develop...

This book examines protest policing and the toolbox of options available to police commanders in response. The right to peacefully protest is intri...

This title was first published in 2000: Few areas of criminal activity have sustained such widely held attention as serial murder. This volume char...

This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which affects numero...

This title was first published in 2000: Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to minority perspectives in crime and violence. Crimino...

The perception of the immigrant as criminal or deviant has a long history in the United States, with many groups (e.g., Irish, Italians, Latinos) h...

This title was first published in 2000: This book provides an empirical account of social control and deviance in a South Asian community in Scotla...

Information security is about people, yet in most organizations protection remains focused on technical countermeasures. The human element is cruci...

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach introduces readers to the essential elements of the US corrections system without drowning s...

Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and fraud. The existence of a land bo...

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are inter...

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that exp...

Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues suc...

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that exp...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad pol...

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversit...

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses ...

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate stud...

The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES, www.ipes.info) coordinates annual international conferences to evaluate critical issues in poli...