Crime & Criminology

Contemporary Corrections: A Critical Thinking Approach introduces readers to the essential elements of the US corrections system without drowning s...

Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, including drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and fraud. The existence of a land bo...

This book offers guidance for speech and language therapists and other professionals who are working in a criminal justice setting or who are inter...

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that exp...

Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

The toll of Americas gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lostmore than 35,000 each year. Ignored, almost completely, are the many mo...

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues suc...

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that exp...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

Globalising British Policing demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain today has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad pol...

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversit...

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses ...

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate stud...

The International Police Executive Symposium (IPES, www.ipes.info) coordinates annual international conferences to evaluate critical issues in poli...

Contemporary security governance often relies on markets and networks to link public agencies to non-governmental actors. This book explores the ri...

This book estimates the proceeds of crime and mafia revenues for different criminal markets such as sexual exploitation, drugs, illicit cigarettes,...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...

Time is an abducted childs worst enemy. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within three hours of their abduction...

This path-breaking book provides a comparative analysis of public discourses in France and Australia on a series of highly mediatised racialised ga...

What does a criminological psychologist actually do? Most people picture a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, helping the police to solve crimes, but the ...

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From Sunday Times bestselling author Kylie Lee Baker comes a sharp and propulsive horror thriller, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and She is a ...

The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular mediaCSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming forensically...

This book offers both theoretical and practical examinations of the psycho-criminology of criminal justice in Asia, with particular emphasis on the...

Quality photographs of evidence can communicate details about crime scenes that otherwise may go unnoticed, making skilled forensic photographers i...

This new book brings together some of the leading criminologists across Europe, to showcase the best of European criminology. This Handbook aims to...

Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in todays world. Since 1990, the federal government has published a...

The dramatic terrorist attacks of 9/11 highlighted significant gaps in research on the topic as governments, community groups, social service agenc...

The essays selected for this volume illustrate the growing interest in and importance of crime that is both environmental and transnational in natu...

Traditionally, criminal profiling texts have focused exclusively on the technicalities of conducting an investigation, but recent developments in c...

The punitive turn has brought about new ways of thinking about geography and the state, and has highlighted spaces of incarceration as a new terrai...

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years....

This book examines a range of therapeutic approaches used in prisons and other secure settings and explores the challenges in such work.The approac...

A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminologycompletes an esteemed trilogy of comparative ...

Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concer...

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic f...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

This book brings together leading counterterrorism experts, from academia and practice, to form an interdisciplinary assessment of the terrorist th...

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It us...

Social network analysis finally reached a critical mass of scholars in the field of criminology. The proven track record of network theory and meth...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

Corruption is a globalising phenomenon. Not only is it rapidly expanding globally but, more significantly, its causes, its means and forms of perpe...

Postmodern global terrorist groups engage sovereign nations asymmetrically with prolonged, sustained campaigns driven by ideology. Increasingly, tr...

Fraudulent activity can approach you or your organization through a variety of avenues, ranging from the cyber world, social media, unsolicited e-m...

This book represents the manifestation of a new presentation of old perspectives within the discipline of criminal justice. It contains practical c...

Prisoners in Prison Societies is a study of criminal career patterns over time, demonstrating specifically how and in what ways imprisonment has a ...