Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation, and also incorporates a valuable historical perspective to this issue. It is a seeks accessible account of the subject for people coming to ..

In the aftermath of 9/11 a critical analysis of offending and victimisation of Asian Muslims is desperately required. Muslims and Crime addresses this need by means of a comparative criminological evaluation of British and Pakistani South Asian Muslims...

In the aftermath of 9/11 a critical analysis of offending and victimisation of Asian Muslims is desperately required. Muslims and Crime addresses this need by means of a comparative criminological evaluation of British and Pakistani South Asian Muslims...

This book is the first major study of the global phenomenon of faith-based prison units. Exploring the roots of faith-based units in South America, it explains why the Prison Service of England and Wales set up the first Christian-based unit in the western world in 1997 - and why there was subsequen..

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book addresses the local governance of security and the ways in which the community engaged with attempts to improve the 'quality of life' of its residents and to attract wealthier new residents in the future by examining the process leading up to the d..

This collection presents the best new voices in crime and deviance and offers bold new theoretical and empirical directions; it represents the best thinking in contemporary critical criminology and stands to become a landmark text...

This collection presents the best new voices in crime and deviance and offers bold new theoretical and empirical directions; it represents the best thinking in contemporary critical criminology and stands to become a landmark text...

This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century. Criminologists from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia evaluate the current condition of criminologi..

This book offers an accessible and innovative approach for students studying ethnicity and crime, incorporating current empirical research and and drawing on a range of contemporary issues such as terrorism, immigration detention and youth gangs...

This book is based on papers originally presented at the 6th International Conference on Restorative Justice in Vancouver. It is concerned with several new areas of practice within restorative justice, with sections on restorative justice and youth, aboriginal justice and restorative justice, victim..

Divided into three sections focusing in turn on legal regulation, technologies of surveillance, and the future of privacy and surveillance, this collection provides a unique and eclectic insight into the question of how the spread of surveillance is changing our lives and the societies in which we l..

This book questions the dominance of neoliberalism and political economy as the main explanation for the penalization of others, migrants and foreign nationalsand makes an important contribution to our understanding of punishment and welfare states...