Crime & Criminology

Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading? This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the ...

Explores the interdisciplinary nature and potential of the field of criminology, covering the fields of sociology, economics, psychology, biology, ...

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the de...

In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence a...

On March 16, 1998, the CIA's Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing. Hitz told the...

Winner of the 2020 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award In Everyday Desistance, Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of you...

To what extent does racial discrimination exist within the criminal justice system, and to what extent is that inequality in crime and justice an o...

Most of the research aimed at counterterrorism, fraud detection, or other forensic applications assumes that this is a specialized application doma...

In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of ...

In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates ...

More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of wrongful convict...

To what extent does racial discrimination exist within the criminal justice system, and to what extent is that inequality in crime and justice an o...

Victims of Crime is the ideal core textbook for victims of crime and general victims courses, and an excellent resource for researchers, practition...

This reader provides a comprehensive introduction for students studying criminology at undergraduate level. Not only does the book include 34 essen...

Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution is about a pervasive but little-studied phenomenon. Private funding of public police entails...

The issue if criminal behavior among our youth is deeply troubling to Americans. There appears to be a profound depression among growing numbers of...

This anthology is a superb collection of 36 articles covering the major theories, past and present, that inform criminology today. What truly sets ...

Labeled as the crime of the 1990s′, it is predicted that serial murder will remain the most intriguing crime as we enter the new millennium. Althou...

Some wars rage forever.It all started harmlessly enough. An egged window. A deflated car tyre. A few garden gnomes knocked over. But then, the sile...

Do you want to play a game?Incarceration Games reexamines the complex history and troubled legacy of improvised, interactive role-playing experimen...

Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in the grip of a moral crisis. ‘Where have our values gone?’ our newspapers scream ...

This wide-ranging anthology offers a variety of perspectives with excerpts from books and current articles from research journals, plus four origin...

Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control represents a collection of original papers first heard at the annual meeting of the Briti...

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scho...

This exciting and unique new book offers a post-modern analysis linking the contemporary social crisis of masculine subjectivity and the law and or...

`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the ...

Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideol...

Why do men rape women? What causes an adult to sexually molest a child? Understanding why sexual deviance occurs, how it develops, and how it chan...

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s an...

In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public c...

The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purpose...

In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of ...

Colorblind Racial Profiling outlines the history of racial profiling practices and policies in the United States from 1974 to the present day. Draw...

This anthology is a superb collection of 36 articles covering the major theories, past and present, that inform criminology today. What truly sets ...

`A lucid and fascinating account of how society initially comes to be viewed as ′civilized′ on the basis of how it punishes its offenders, and the ...

"Excellent book, the best I have read." —John McCullogh, South Hills Business School Counseling Criminal Justice Offenders, Second Edition takes a...

Public discourses around migrant sex workers are often more confident about what migrant sex workers signify morally but are less clear about who t...

Limited critical evaluation on the societal effect of rising incarceration rates and construction of new facilities has been available. Crime is no...

Labeled as the crime of the 1990s′, it is predicted that serial murder will remain the most intriguing crime as we enter the new millennium. Althou...

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling examines the organizational structures of drug smuggling from Colombia to the US.  Career drug smugglers describe ...

For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense,...

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems,...

This reader provides a comprehensive introduction for students studying criminology at undergraduate level. Not only does the book include 34 essen...

This exciting and unique new book offers a post-modern analysis linking the contemporary social crisis of masculine subjectivity and the law and or...

In a pathbreaking study of a major state prison, Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary during the middle years of this century, Charles Bright addr...

Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. "A super-thief who leaves no trace."-Andy Garcia "An anti-hero for ...