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...