Crime & Criminology

How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in cr...

Violence in the home, particularly assault by a man on his wife or girlfriend, is an everyday phenomenon. What should the police and law courts do ...

Introduction to Criminal Justice, Tenth Edition, offers a student-friendly description of the criminal justice processoutlining the decisions, prac...

Criminal Investigation on the Street presents investigative principles and techniquesand applies them to solving real-world crimesin an engaging, s...

Criminal Investigation on the Street presents investigative principles and techniquesand applies them to solving real-world crimesin an engaging, s...

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates court. Written by a magistrate, this book uses differ...

This accessible book provides an evaluative review of justice at the locus of the magistrates court. Written by a magistrate, this book uses differ...

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and...

This book presents the argument that solution-driven policy and treaty changes, if faithfully implemented, will rekindle the relevance of the Inter...

The Cybersecurity landscape is a daunting one today. It is nothing like it was 10 years ago. Now, it has become very complex, covert, dynamic, and ...

This collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of th...

This book investigates the penal culture in France and Germany how it is shaped in politics, media, and public opinion. Although compared with the...

When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and California...

This book tackles the growing issues concerning the managerialism and bureacratisation of criminal justice systems across a number of jurisdictions...

Justice-involved veterans face a number of challenges in the criminal-legal system, including receiving the proper care and treatment for trauma ex...

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibi...

This book examines the criminalization of Black men and the need for penal system reform that allows for their mental, physical, financial, and emo...

This book rigorously examines police voices when people are reported missing, through empirical research. It explores the international literature ...

This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and po...

The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive ...

This title was first published in 2000: The development of 'search and surveillance' powers are amongst the most controversial issues to confront m...

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction: An Illustrated Manual and Field Guide provides methodologies to help investigators to think broadly w...

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the authors 45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated ...

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone commu...

First published in 1999, this volume brings together a unique range of previously unpublished studies that explore the psychological processes invo...

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discuss...

Beats Not Beatings: The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology is a powerful, radical, intersectional scholarly-activist collection of liberation-based articl...

The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it, and from those who injure themselves, is often thinner than we imagine. ...

Memories of violence, suffering and atrocities in Cambodia are today being pulled in different directions. A range of transitional justice practice...

Originally published in 1968, English Prisons Under Local Government gives a detailed account of the evolution of the English Prison System from th...

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, emp...

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence, this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety ...

Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the ability to clarify our t...

The exponential growth of sexual commerce, migration and movement of people into the sex industry, as well as localised concerns about transactiona...