Criminology: Legal Aspects

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...