Criminology: Legal Aspects

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

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

Constructing Victimhood seeks to go 'beyond innocence and guilt' to expand the criminological, victimological, and transitional justice image of wh...

The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nig...

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the p...

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 ...

Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called o...

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

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials. It starts from the ...

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...

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 provides an essential and critical overview of the most significant issues concerning the domestication of international criminal law, in...

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

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...

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

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the inv...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfa...

American legal scholars have debated for some time the need for a cultural defense in criminal proceedings where minority cultural information seem...

This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-...

This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bri...

The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corru...

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have prolifera...

Sensitive security information (SSI) is a category of sensitive but unclassified information under the United States government's information shari...

Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smarts innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in ...

This authoritative volume explores different perspectives on economic and social justice and the challenges presented by and within the criminal ju...

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications...

This volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that aris...

Deviant behavior is not a subject that you study in school and then file away. It is a study of life and is ever changing. Defining the concept of ...

The EU now possesses a clear legal basis for taking action on criminal law matters and steering the policy and practice of Member States in relatio...

In Philip K. Dicks short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed ...

According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavi...

This unusual book tells vividly the story of children who have broken the law and their treatment from the time of King Athelstan to present day. W...

Requirements for the defendant to actively participate in the English criminal process have been increasing in recent years such that the defendant...

Lessons can be learned from major fraud cases. Whether the victim is a company, public agency, nonprofit, foundation, or charity, there is a high l...

Why is punishment not more effective? Why do we have such high re-offending rates? How can we deal with crime and criminals in a more cost-effectiv...

This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers...

This innovative new book recognises that, while criminal justice studies is a core component of all criminology/criminal justice undergraduate degr...

The question of what works in offender treatment has dominated the field of prisoner re-entry and recidivism research for the last thirty years. On...

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innova...