Criminology - Law

Community Re-entry provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information on women’s lived experiences during incarceration and ..

Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime. To date, no book has been written outlining a conservative perspective on crime and criminal justice policy. Not a polemic against liberalism, Conservative Criminology nonetheless focuses on..

Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime. To date, no book has been written outlining a conservative perspective on crime and criminal justice policy. Not a polemic against liberalism, Conservative Criminology nonetheless focuses on..

This study looks at contemporary psychological research and theory into criminal behaviour and considers the relationship between psychological and criminological theories. At the same time, the book examines the impact of psychology on strategies..

Bringing together several perpectives from a number of distinguished academic lawyers, criminologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, this book addresses the important issues which lie at the forefront of decision making and policy in criminal justice and health care...

Ideal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more..

Written by the co-editor of the best-seller Cultural Criminology Unleashed, this contemporary book explores the topics of colonialism, post-colonialism, genocide, state control, the impact of September 11th and the post-9/11 world in a global context...

This book brings together cutting-edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural'. A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic...

This book is designed to support teaching in this fast paced area. Offering a critical, thematic overview that provides students with an introduction to the subject, it clearly demonstrates connections between topics and highlights areas of debate._x000D_ Written with an emphasis on the law in the U..

This book is designed to support teaching in this fast paced area. Offering a critical, thematic overview that provides students with an introduction to the subject, it clearly demonstrates connections between topics and highlights areas of debate._x005F_x000D_ Written with an emphasis on the law in..

Written by an author based at the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, this excellent volume addressing the topical issue of deterrence with is a hugely important aspect of criminology in a critical style...

Written by an author based at the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, this excellent volume addressing the topical issue of deterrence is a hugely important aspect of criminology in a critical style...