Crime & Criminology

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic f...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

This book brings together leading counterterrorism experts, from academia and practice, to form an interdisciplinary assessment of the terrorist th...

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It us...

Social network analysis finally reached a critical mass of scholars in the field of criminology. The proven track record of network theory and meth...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

Corruption is a globalising phenomenon. Not only is it rapidly expanding globally but, more significantly, its causes, its means and forms of perpe...

Postmodern global terrorist groups engage sovereign nations asymmetrically with prolonged, sustained campaigns driven by ideology. Increasingly, tr...

Fraudulent activity can approach you or your organization through a variety of avenues, ranging from the cyber world, social media, unsolicited e-m...

This book represents the manifestation of a new presentation of old perspectives within the discipline of criminal justice. It contains practical c...

Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways imprisonment has a ...

Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unpreced...

Business integrity is rarely a matter of straight-forward rules. As the nature and geography of business transactions become more complex, managers...

The Origins of American Criminology is an invaluable resource. Both separately and together, these essays capture the stories behind the invention ...

Measuring Crime and Criminalityfocuses on how different approaches to measuring crime and criminality are used to test existing criminological theo...

Popular war on drugs rhetoric postulates drug use in the West as the product of the drug production and trafficking roles of non-western societies ...

The subject of many films and books, art theft is a fascinating topic that continues to capture the popular imagination. However, it is one of many...

Developed by Bruno Latour and his collaborators, actor-network theory (ANT) offers crimes studies a worthy intellectual challenge. It requires us t...

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concer...

As drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs continue to inflict untold harm upon our society, it is clear that a global initiative and an in...

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states. This book...

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel ...

This book explores the issue of selective law enforcement, arguing that the manipulation of the legal system by powerful insiders is a distinctive ...

At a time when Latin America is experiencing societal unrest from human rights violations, corruption and weak institutions Government and Governan...