Crime & Criminology

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...

A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York Citys most notorious house of correction While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are ...

When it comes to adopting evidence-based approaches, does the size of an organization really matter? This practical guide brings leading police and...

This brief explores the justification of the death penalty, using the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, as ...

In Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada hate-crime specialist Barbara Perry brings together 16 of the country's leading scholars to address issu...

The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal j...

Written by leading experts in the field, this timely collection highlights current strategies and thinking in relation to prevention of sexual viol...

A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, k...