Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force, through a detailed analysis of a wide range of both qualitative and quantitative research data. _x000D_  ..

A Dictionary of Criminal Justice is the only dictionary that deals with criminal justice from a UK perspective, and in doing so provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the British criminal justice system, including its historical context and contemporary operations. This book an invaluable ..

The book begins by showing how widely held the belief has been that ethnic minorities are discriminated against by the courts and by other agencies in the criminal justice system. It discusses the factors that contributed to this belief, including the findings of the Macpherson Report and the notion..

In their 1990 work, Gottfredson and Hirschi introduce a new and comprehensive theory of crime. At the time, crime researchers tended to focus on environmental factors that led to crime, not on the criminals themselves, and were inclined to think about crime only from their particular academic perspe..

Navigating an academic career is a complex process – to be successful requires mastering several 'rites of passage'. This comprehensive guide takes academics at all stages of their career through a journey, beginning at graduate school and ending with retirement. ..

A History of Drugs details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last two hundred years; thus disturbing and unravelling the ‘naturalness’ of the ‘drug question’, as it traces the multiple and heterogeneous lines of development out of which it has been assembled...

A History of Drugs details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last two hundred years; thus disturbing and unravelling the ‘naturalness’ of the ‘drug question’, as it traces the multiple and heterogeneous lines of development out of which it has been assembled...

_x005F_x000D_ This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did...

_x005F_x000D_ This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did...

This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day...

A Law Enforcement Sourcebook of Asian Crime and CulturesTactics and Mindsets..

Antisocial and criminal behaviour involving children and young people has been of increasing public concern over the last 25 years. As an accompaniment to the Report of the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour (2010), this book takes a new look at the problem of youth offen..