Crime & Criminology

In this book, the authors discuss recent advances in criminology research. In the first chapter, the author gives a spatial analysis of the causes ...

In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphaël Lévy, a French ...

The Eighth Edition of CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ACTION places you in the center of the action and helps you learn about criminal justice. You''ll explore...

Legal protection for employees who report illegal misconduct by their employers have increased dramatically since the late 1970s when such protecti...

Sexual assault remains one of the most problematic and controversial issues in law, medicine, and in society at large. Following the outcry against...

This Major Reference Work synthesizes the global knowledge on cybercrime from the leading international criminologists and scholars across the soci...

What is crime? What constitutes violence? What is it permissible to talk about or describe in cultural depictions of crime and violence? What is th...

Within two decades-if not sooner-at least one in three prisoners in the US will be a senior citizen. Our prisons, however, were designed for a mu...

Kent Kerley explores the issue of religion in prison, offering a rich portrait of religious practices and their impacts. Kerley shows how offender...

This is the first book to trace scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over a twenty-year time period. It is based primarily on th...

A corporation is criminally liable for the federal crimes its employees or agents commit in its interest. Corporate officers, employees, and agents...

Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for ...

Espionage by Americans is the worst outcome of insider trust betrayal. The Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC) monitors and analy...