Crime & Criminology

The Block Parent® Program of Canada was launched in 1968 following a tragic child abduction and homicide in Ontario. It rapidly expanded across the...

By exploring crimmigration at its intersection with international refugee law, this book exposes crimmigration as a system focused on the governanc...

This volume helps us understand the transformations of terrorist organisations, and the conflicts they are involved in, by broadening the perspecti...

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies:...

The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of bi...

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried...

In the beginning of the 20th century, inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels of Arthur Conan Doyle, scientists began to make their appearance at th...

Discover gripping true crime stories and the surprising tools you need to keep you and your family safe -- from iconic legal commentator, TV journa...

Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record...

This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and ...

The last days of colonialism taught America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has...

Ransomware is a type of malicious software that prevents victims from accessing their computers and the information they have stored. Typically, vi...

In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerat...

This book is a short book about public key cryptosystems, digital signature algorithms, and their basic cryptanalysis which are provided at a basic...

This book is a short book about public key cryptosystems, digital signature algorithms, and their basic cryptanalysis which are provided at a basic...

In this concise and valuable collection of essays, Louis J. Gesualdi provides readers with an understanding of peacemaking criminology. Peacemaking...

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformIn th...

Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on th...

Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiate...

Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiate...

Most forensic psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers involved in the assessment of sex offenders today have a good grasp of where the fiel...