Crime & Criminology

With the heated discussion around #MeToo, journalistic reporting on domestic abuse, and the popularity of true crime documentaries, gendered media ...

Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.Images and video...

Examine the major advances in sexual offender treatment over the last decade and promising new concepts in treatment, supervision, and research Se...

More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe;...

The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, ...

Crime Statistics suggest that Americans are not a notably law-abiding people. With some 13 million felonies reported every year, it is not surprisi...

As the average life expectancy continues to rise, the long-held assumption that age is a protective factor against criminal offending and victimisa...

"[P]rovides a treasure trove of information that will engage readers intrigued by but new to the subject of art forgery as well as those with an ar...

This book is the first to consider the intersection between mafia power and deviant masonic lodges within the political sphere of the contemporary ...

Government contracting is plagued by nefarious, amateurish, and criminal behavior. By awarding government contracts to corporations as compensation...

The book will explore the impact of the Lawrence Report since it was published in 1999. Upon publication, Home Secretary Jack Straw promised that t...

The American homicide rate remains dramatically higher than that in other Western nations. News of a murder has become a routine event. How do we e...

For almost every organization in the future, both public and private sector, identity management presents both significant opportunities and risks....

For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings—...

Deviance is both socially defined and influenced. While it is widely accepted that deviance is a social construction, this research revisits the co...

Sex Work Now provides an authoritative overview of female sex work and policy in the UK, and addresses a number of key contemporary issues and deba...

Gender, race, and community, and space all provide important filters for a person’s contact with the criminal justice system. Cynthia Zhang and Mer...

A comprehensive presentation of cross-cultural crisis negotiation principles and strategies, this book relates established communication models to ...

A thumb print left at the scene of a grisly murder. Fingerprints taken from a getaway car used in a bank robbery. A palm print recovered from the s...

Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.Images and video...

This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory and prison practice...

Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses...

The death penalty is one of the most contentious issues of our time and has generated an astonishing amount of arguments both for and against capit...

The field of environmental criminology is a staple theoretical framework in contemporary criminological theory. This fully revised and expanded edi...

This work examines the structure and illegal activities of organized crime groups in Taiwan and explores the infiltration of crime groups into the ...

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not rec...

This collection of essays by scholars of diverse backgrounds explores the notion of repentance in our culture, focusing on individuals who have bee...

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

In the aftermath of 9/11 a critical analysis of offending and victimisation of Asian Muslims is desperately required. Muslims and Crime addresses t...

Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people b...

Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor f...

This is the first book to focus on the interrelated issues of social control and disorder in football. It shows how the ‘beautiful game’ illuminate...

'Profilers' and 'Profiling' are now widely discussed, often with almost mythical respect. This is the first volume to cut through the confusions a...

This new Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and debates on terrorism and counterterrorism, as well a...

Revised and expanded to reflect the most recent innovations in the field, The Scientific Examination of Documents, Fourth Edition is a handy, acces...

Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate the emotional, psychological, social a...

This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory. Contrib...

Originally published in 1988, Policing by the Public opened up an entirely new field within criminology and the sociology of deviance. The authors ...

Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate the emotional, psychological, social a...

Trafficking Culture outlines current research and thinking on the illicit market in antiquities. It moves along the global trafficking chain from ‘...

Research Methods in Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition, is an innovative text/online hybrid for undergraduate Criminal Justice Research Methods courses...

This book is the first to investigate the effects of participation in separation or divorce proceedings on femicide (murder of a female), femicide-...

Alternate Light Source Imaging provides a brief guide to digital imaging using reflected infrared and ultraviolet radiation for crime scene photogr...

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Ei...

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, stru...

First Published in 1994. Compiled and transcribed from 1950-1953, this book contains the letters of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg during their pri...

Global Crime and Justice offers a truly transnational examination of both deviance and social controls around the world. Unlike comparative textboo...