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Across the world, violence inflicted in the name of family honor is attracting increasing attention. Family honor violence is physical force inflicted primarily on women for conduct defined as dishonorable. This book explores these conflicts of honor, how they are triggered, how they are handled and why some lead to death.

Bringing together leading international scholars, this book considers how cyberspace reinforces prejudice and covers issues such as online grooming, sexting, cyber-hate, cyber-bulling and online radicalization.

Preventing Sexual Harm provides an overview of current criminal justice strategies to tackling sexual violence, and highlights existing positive criminological approaches that could help prevent sexual abuse and harm.

Bringing together international contributions, this interdisciplinary book focuses on order and conflict in public space, examining the complex ways in which social interaction is framed and in turn shapes the physical environment.

Bringing together international contributions, this interdisciplinary book focuses on order and conflict in public space, examining the complex ways in which social interaction is framed and in turn shapes the physical environment.

Bringing together international perspectives from criminology, psychology, law; and business and adopting a morally neutral stance, this book offers a holistic overview of digitial piracy, considering its cultural, commercial, and legal aspects.

This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how new digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for resistance and criminal justice intervention.

This book contributes to the development of Caribbean Criminology, offers an overview of existing scientific empirical and theoretical work on crime and criminal justice in the Caribbean and explores the impact of post-colonialism.

Bringing together international experts, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to cybercrime, explores a range of issues from cybersecurity to hacking to fraud, and lays out frameworks for collaboration between different fields.

This book brings together expert scholars native to twelve different countries to examine the history and scope of domestic violence and how it is being addressed, repressed or ignored in their thirteen respective countries. Their specialised knowledge and unique data come together to create a series of snapshots that will guide nations, societies and communities worldwide in formulating effective strategies to prevent, intervene and combat this epidemic, and examine partnerships and programmes already in place.This book is essential reading for practitioners, policy makers, and human rights organisations, as well as students and scholars of criminology, social work, sociology and law.

The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world.

Bringing together leading experts and case studies, this book considers the infiltration of organised crime in legitimate business around Europe, considering the purposes and methods of infiltration and the implications for policy and research.

This collection draws from key frameworks of criminological thought, legal analysis and empirical evidence to critically examine the relationship between homicide, gender and responsibility. It considers lethal violence committed by the state, the corporation, in war and in custody alongside domestic murder to demonstrate the interconnections between them.

This book aims to bring together the pioneering research on gender based violence that has been conducted by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Topics discussed include violence in young people¿s relationships, prostitution policy, disabled women¿s experiences of domestic violence, men as victims of domestic violence, feminist movements and methodological concerns. This book will have a wide appeal, as each individual chapter builds on and contributes to existing global and national concerns about gender based violence.

Focusing on a range of countries in Europe and beyond, this book demonstrates how government penetration into private citizens' lives was developing years before the 'war on terrorism.' It also aims to answer the question of whether central government actually has penetrated ever deeper into the lives of private citizens in various countries inside and outside of Europe, and whether citizens are protected against it, or have fought back.