Crime & Criminology

In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of il...

From the local to the global, the governance of illegal drug use is becoming increasingly fragmented. In some contexts, prohibitive regimes are bei...

Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States are frequently overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed domesti...

Julia nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe...

The arduous, confusing and fraught journey that immigrants take through immigration court Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved th...

The history of the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by racial inequality and sustained by present day policy. Large racial and ethnic dispari...

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality. It formulates distinct questi...

Crimes against children are some of the most serious, demanding investigations that the police and their partner agencies can be involved with. It ...

An astonishing read -- full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Olive...

This book takes a unique approach to explaining permutation statistical methods for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, re...

In this stirring book, William H. Barnwell tells the stories of prison inmates and the Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers who work with them. Set mo...

Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues offers a multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of domestic and international t...

This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed lawful by courts, are undeniably awful and unethical. From police officers emp...

EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we use evidence to improve deradicalisation and violence prevention outcomes...

This book builds on Heffernan's last book Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice by examining the class and racial dispa...

This edited book provides a toolbox for researchers and students working with sensitive images in criminological research on and offline. Across th...

This book examines the police response to the terrorist attacks in case studies that occurred in Mumbai (2008), Paris (2015), Brussels (2016) and M...

This book presents a fresh perspective on combating cybercrime, showcasing innovative solutions from experts across various fields. With the integr...

This book provides a wide-ranging, global exploration of policies and practices which have sought to undermine dissent during recent and less recen...

This textbook provides an overview of international drug policy using a comparative framework to explore contemporary drug issues. Using a topical ...

This handbook of forensic victimology focuses on femi(ni)cide contexts, offering instructional tools for legal and forensic investigation from a tr...

'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLOR*WINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HIST...

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and secu...

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benef...

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benef...

A body on an embankment. A blast at a farmhouse. A burden on Colchester CID'Rounded characters, a terrific sense of time and place and masterful pl...

They call it the flash point where the fire ignites and it becomes a blaze that cant be stopped. When you see that flash, youd better hope nobody ...

The dramatic, compelling bestselling true story of how a serial killer was finally unmasked after evading justice for more than twenty yearsNow a m...

This short book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters and scope of environmental protest, the meanings of such acts of resistance, and ...

Im österreichischen Justizsystem werden Personen, die aufgrund einer psychischen Erkrankung gegen geltendes Recht verstoßen haben, in speziellen fo...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions the economy and the criminal justice system. The American economy has ra...

This book provides a criminological analysis of the evolving BDSM scene in Central Europe, with an emphasis on selected post-communist countries. I...

Women around the world face substantial barriers to reporting their victimization, and in some contexts, the classical criminal justice response to...

This book critiques the practices of managerialism and their effects on those who live and work in prisons. It draws upon ethnographic research con...

Dieses Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Thematik der nachrichtendienstlichen Devianz durch Emissärinnen und Emissäre, welche aufgrund ihrer Präva...

Are we born selfish or primed to help others?Does stress make people more antisocial?Can we ever be genuinely altruistic?This book explores some of...

Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is designed specifically to meet the quick-reference needs of any officer conducting a serious...

AS SEEN ON TV.'For too long, the work of the Parole Board has been shrouded in secrecy. This book provides a detailed view of how decisions are rea...