Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Cultural Criminology is a theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach to the study of crime and deviance that places criminality and ...

A leading criminologist draws on over 30 years experience working with sex offenders to propose a new way of understanding sexual crimesThe prevale...

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years....

This fully updated and expanded second edition of Policing Scotland takes account of recent developments in Scottish policing and criminal justice ...

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Gard...

In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not b...

A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in th...

Private Security and the Law, Fifth Edition, is a singular resource that provides the most comprehensive analysis of practices in the security indu...

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global...

Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain concentrations of the uneducat...

Terrorism: Law and Policy provides a comprehensive socio-legal analysis of issues related to terrorist activity. Aimed at both undergraduate and po...

''An authoritative, well-written and deeply humane exploration of a subject that has endless fascination . . . A remarkable memoir'' The Australian...

A contemporary guide to the criminal justice process, the broad scope of this book means it will be a trusted companion throughout a Criminology an...

A contemporary guide to the criminal justice process, the broad scope of this book means it will be a trusted companion throughout a Criminology an...

This book provides a lively, concise and definitive introduction to the study of the causes of crime. Authoritative yet accessible, it offers a gui...

In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries--the US, the UK, and the Netherlands--and explores when and with what consequences cr...

It is at 31.4 years of age that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. ...

While sexual harassment of women in the workplace has been discussed for decades it is still a pervasive problem. This book looks at the history...

The developmental perspective is becoming increasingly significant in criminology and in research on antisocial and criminal behavior. Developmenta...

Volume 44 of Crime and Justice is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners who need to know about the latest advances in kn...

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley held a public reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In the receiving l...

The Executioner's Toll, 2010 is a meticulous examination of every execution (and the details surrounding the execution) carried out in a single ...

In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and special agent John N. Thacker published a report summarizing the...