Criminology and Criminal Justice

This text offers an authoritative and much-needed overview of the range of issues associated with drugs-related crime. The new edition has been fully updated to include the latest data and recent developments in policy...

This key work exposes international studies from leading social sciences researchers who use various theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations to depict deviant drug and crime-related pathways. In doing so, it presents an invaluable overview of the most advanced research in the field..

To date, very little academic work has explored drug use as part of contemporary popular culture. This collection of readings will apply an innovatory, multi-disciplinary approach to this theme, combining some of the most recent research on the 'normalisation' of drug consumption with fresh work on ..

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field...

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach – centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries – it argues that problematic drug use can only be unde..

East Side-West Side..

This book about ecstasy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time...

The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such activities, and the potential consequences of education for prisoners' reentry into society all have important implications. This extended analysis of p..

The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such activities, and the potential consequences of education for prisoners' reentry into society all have important implications. This extended analysis of p..

This book explores the contemporary meaning of Edwin Sutherland and considers why criminologists today should continue to engage with his work. Which dimensions of Sutherland’s work have best survived the march of time and deseve to survive?..

Outstanding first-line supervisors are essential to the success of any law enforcement agency, yet many officers lack the supervision training necessary to excel. Effective Police Supervision immerses readers in the group behaviors and organizational dynamics supervisors must master to lead their te..

Good police officers are often promoted into supervisory positions with little or no training for what makes a good manager. Effective Police Supervision serves as the core text in college-level classes on supervisory practices in criminal justice and provides students with an understanding of the g..