Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime seeks to evaluate the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positiv..

This provocative yet authoritative book seeks to expose and to unravel what has really driven the making of criminal justice policy in the UK. It will be essential reading for anybody interested in knowing what is going on in criminal justice, and why it is so central to political debate more genera..

This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment, through the Maoist (1949-1977), reform (1978-2001) and post-reform eras (2002-) of China to understand the shaping and transformation of punishment within the context of social, political and economic processes and arrangement..

Punishment in the Community: The Future of Criminal Justice challenges the widely held assumption that punishment through imprisonment is central to the criminal justice system. The author critically examines the effectiveness of the mechanisms of community control which exist against the background..

Providing a critical analysis of both political and professional developments in policy and practice relating to non-custodial penalties, the central focus of this is on principles and politics of community punishment, and on the changing role of the probation service...

This book reviews key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice from a multidisciplinary and international approach. It also goes on to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline...

Pursuing Justice, Second Edition, examines the issue of justice by considering the origins of the idea, formal systems of justice, current global issues of justice, and ways in which justice might be achieved by individuals, organizations, and the global community. Part 1 demonstrates how the idea o..

The science of fingerprint identification is challenging for even the most seasoned experts. This book examines methods and techniques in the science of friction ridge identification, known as ridgeology. The author examines every facet of the discipline, from the history of friction ridge identific..

In this book, Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning reflect on the origins of Queer Criminology, survey the foundational research and scholarship in this emerging field, and offer suggestions for the future. Covering topics such as the criminalization of queerness; the policing of Queer communities; Que..

_x005F_x000D_ Queer Sex Work explores what it might mean to ‘be’, ‘do’ and ‘think’ queer(ly) in the study and practice of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical case studies – including erotic dance venues, online sex working, pornography, grey sexual economies, and BSDM – an..

_x005F_x000D_ Queer Sex Work explores what it might mean to ‘be’, ‘do’ and ‘think’ queer(ly) in the study and practice of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical case studies – including erotic dance venues, online sex working, pornography, grey sexual economies, and BSDM – an..

The death penalty has inspired controversy for centuries. Raising questions regarding capital punishment rather than answering them, Questioning Capital Punishment offers the footing needed to allow for more informed consideration and analysis of these controversies. Acker edits judicial decisions t..