Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book explores the significance of republican former detainees’ public narratives about experiences of state violence within the detention system of Northern Ireland and makes an important contribution to knowledge about transitional justice and legacies of state violence...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to eco-global criminology. By addressing global issues – including pollution, crimes against wildlife, and global warming – this book introduces topics such as the conceptualization of environmental harm, and global dimensions of local environmental is..

The thirteen essays in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems, largely from the early-nineteenth century to the present. Journeying into and unlocking different national and international penal archives, and..

The thirteen essays in this collection are based on exciting new research that explores the evolution and adaptation of criminal justice and penal systems, largely from the early-nineteenth century to the present. Journeying into and unlocking different national and international penal archives, and..

This book aims to provide an introduction and overview of sex offender treatment programmes, designed for students and practitioners coming to this field. It seeks to describe the development, theoretical underpinnings, treatment goals and operation of cognitive-behavioural and other programmes to a..

While observers’ opinions of ongoing developments in policing are well known, it is rare to get a glimpse of how police leaders themselves assess these advances. Through in-depth interviews with highly placed police leaders and administrators, this text presents cross-cultural perspectives on the or..

The third volume in the Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons series, Trends in the Judiciary: Interviews with Judges Across the Globe, Volume Three provides an insider's view of the judicial system. Offering interviews from judges in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Nort..

This book offers an exposé of the globalized, corporate, financial and state crimes of powerful organizations, drawing on a range of current cases from the recent epidemic of Wall Street securities frauds to the torturing of prisoners by the US...

This book explores the crimes of urbanisation, such as land frauds, forced displacements, residential demolitions and networks of organised violence as well as the communities of resistance that emerge in response to these chains of criminality...

Under the Gun..

Instructive and entertaining for public and private investigators who are potential undercover agents, Undercover approaches the topic from three angles: how to handle informants, how to investigate suspects, and how to be an undercover agent...

This book focuses on new research and conceptual thinking on Internet child pornography that views perpetrators within context, examines those impacted by such offending, describes emerging legal and policy issues, and proposes innovative strategies for prevention within a dynamic global environment..