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Contains sections including Classical and Rational Choice; Biological and Biosocial; Psychological; Social Learning and Neutralization; Social Control; Social Ecology, Sub-cultural and Cultural; Anomie and Strain; Conflict and Radical; Feminist and Gender; and, Critical Criminologies: Anarchist, Postmodernist, Peacemaking.
The pursuit of security is central to the development of public policy and a driving force behind the spread of private policing. This volume brings together a range of contributions from leading scholars in the field and includes international and comparative perspectives on the challenges posed by the rise of the 'security society'.
Features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers in this volume provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection, and the development of new innovative statistical approaches.
Provides an overview on migration and crime. This book includes classic pieces from different disciplines (such as criminal justice, sociology, and psychology) that examine a variety of topics (such as hate crimes, organized crime, trafficking, and victimization issues) in a variety of locations, with qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Focuses on the theory, control and policy issues in the area of corporate crime. This book presents a collection of articles that reflect a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. It highlights the most influential thinking about law, crime causation and policy dilemmas - both within the US and internationally.
Includes twenty-two key articles exploring prison history, the state and gendered social control, gender and work in prisons and the gendered experience of incarceration. The introductory essay places these areas in the context both of more conventional sociologies of gender and traditional scholarship on the prison.
Domestic Violence is not just a public health and criminal justice problem, it is also an issue of universal human rights. This title deals with the subject of domestic violence.
Burglary is a high-volume crime that impacts upon the general public and, particularly, on those who are victimised. This work addresses the nature of burglary and policies directed against it. With articles from Britain, the US and across the world, it also describes and explains the crime and why offenders choose to commit it.
A collection of texts drawn from a range of disciplines which have contributed towards understanding the impact of gun crime within western societies. It examines the use of firearms to commit offences. It gives insights for those seeking to understand issues embedded within firearms offending and to develop initiatives to tackle gun crime.
Embraces a range of topics, from controversies about genetic modification through corporate offending against the environment and human communities, to animal abuse. This work provides a focal point for longstanding and new areas of research as well as making important interdisciplinary connections.
Presents contemporary articles that are part of, or related to, the 'new masculinities' approach. This work features scholars who share the view that masculinities are plural, socially constructed, reproduced in the collective social practices of different men and embedded in institutional and occupational settings.
The essays selected for this volume provide an overview of the range of issues confronting scholars interested in the complex and multiple relationships between war and criminality, and map the many connections between war, security, governmentality, punishment, gender and crime.
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