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This work examines the character of social life within two maximum-security prisons. By systematic comparison of the two prisons, it compares the institutional structures and strategies they deploy for control of inmates. The material is set within the framework of a broader, social theory context.

This book seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. It outlines the contours of the contemporary moral economy, and asks, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of consumption?

The first authoritative history of kidnapping based on extensive qualitative research of gangs and policing, as well as an analysis of the effect the crime has on how communities experience the city, and the strategies put in place by potential victims to avoid the threat of kidnapping.

Offers the first sustained examination of the role and value of respect in policing and imprisonment in England and Wales, where the value is elusive but of persisting significance, and is a challenging corrective to current scholarship which has neglected the significance of respect for those we seek to police and punish.

Provides a rare glimpse of life inside British prisons, where non-citizens are increasingly segregated from the rest of the penal population. Using first-hand testimonies from prisoners, prison staff, and high-level policy makers, it describes how a national scandal led to policies that have transformed prisons into sites for border control.

Analyses the cultural meaning and social dynamics of international criminal justice by exploring the role of human rights organizations in this sphere after the creation of the International Criminal Court. The book offers an analysis of punishment 'gone global', and how it is constituted by and of global relations of power.

Starting with penal populism, this book examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.

Navigating financial crashes of the Late Middle Ages up to the present day and analysing them through the lenses of classical, positivist, functionalist and Marxist criminology, this book explores the growth of grey areas in the financial world and our understanding, or misunderstanding, of financial delinquency.

Tells the story of how and why Neighbourhood Policing was originally developed, the ways it has been implemented across different communities and in respect of different crime problems, and what its future prospects are likely to be.

Based on interviews with prisoners and prison staff, this study of Grendon Prison, a 'model' prison, will be of interest to criminologists, penologists, and prison staff.

This study demonstrates how community police officers go about such matters as gathering crime-relevant information from people in the local community, how they apply informal social control to public disorder situations, and how they use the police organization to obtain needed resources.

This book offers an analysis of paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland, in particular the thirty-year struggle concerning the prisoners' assertion of their political status. Forms of prisoner resistance are examined and models of prison management are developed.

This work analyses the history of international police cooperation from the middle of the 19th century until World War II. It is a detailed exploration of international cooperation strategies involving police institutions from the United States and Germany, as well as other European countries.

Based upon observation of murder squads at work, interviews with detectives and detailed analysis of police case files, this is an account of the practices and processes involved in the investigation of serious violent crimes, as well as some of the problems that are often encountered in the conduct of this work.

Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. However, the new regime housed in the new building became notorious. Reconstructing a Women's Prison describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison in the 1970s and 80s.

International co-operation on criminal law enforcement has become an important policy issue for Europe. This study examines the major empirical and theoretical issues associated with this co-operation, including the harmonization of criminal law and criminal procedures.

This collection reflects upon the ways in which crime and its control feature in the political and cultural landscapes of contemporary societies. The book discusses the meaning of crime and punishment in late-modern society.

Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, this work highlights the interpretive oscillations which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour: each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some reasonable validity.

Part of the CLARENDON STUDIES IN CRIMINOLOGY series this account of the economic lives of women drug users in New York City reveals a group of women whose options have been reduced by drug use, poverty, racism, violence and marginality and describes how gender, race and class are articulated in the street-level drug economy.

This book examines the increasing appeals to, and actual involvement of, communities in the area of crime control. It charts and analyses the growing 'partnership' approach to crime prevention. In doing so, it draws upon two research projects conducted in England.

This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.

Many countries have established restorative justice programmes, in which those affected by a crime attend meetings in the hope of achieving the ideals of reparation, reconciliation and reintegration. This book draws upon extensive fieldwork to explore the nature, function and effectiveness of the accountability within this kind of informal justice.

A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies.

Sentencing Policy and Social Justice argues that the promotion of social justice should become a key objective of sentencing policy, advancing the argument that the legitimacy of sentencing ultimately depends upon the strength of the relationship between social morality and penal ideology.

Explores the rise of extra-legal protection organizations in contemporary China, contributing to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context. It examines two types of extra-legal protectors: Black Mafia (street gangsters) and Red Mafia (corrupt public officers), and their impact on Chinese society.

Presenting the results of an 18 month empirical study examining the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice to analyse the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation.

This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.

Through an innovative and engaging analysis of an often misunderstood cohort of organised crime in Georgia, this book explores the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organized crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organizations can occur.

This book offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. Through direct observation of operational policing and interviews, the author assesses the impact of three decades of social, economic and political change on police culture.

Examines the focus on crime and criminal justice in British drugs policy, from why it happened at all to what led policy to unfold in the way that it did. Includes analysis of crucial policy documents and over 200 interviews with key players in the policy development and implementation process.