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Electronically Monitored Punishment: International and Critical Perspectives

de Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens & Dan Kaminski

Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or after release from prison. Various technologies can be used, including voice...

Evolution and Crime

de Jason Roach & Ken Pease

Human physique and behaviour has been shaped by the pressures of natural selection. This is received wisdom in all scientifically informed circles. Currently, the topic of crime is rarely touched upon in textbooks...

Forensic Psychology

de Joanna R. Adler

This book brings together a team of experts in the field of forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and the techniques employed in key areas of research, policy and practice. Its aim is...

Sex Work Now

de Rosie Campbell & Maggie O'Neill

Sex Work Now provides an authoritative overview of female sex work and policy in the UK, and addresses a number of key contemporary issues and debates. These include sex worker unionization, migrant sex work...

Race Probation

de Sam Lewis, Peter Raynor & David Smith

The issue of minority ethnic groups' experiences of the criminal justice process, and in particular whether they are subject to disadvantageous treatment, has received much attention in recent years following...

Policing Scotland

de Daniel Donnelly & Kenneth Scott

This is the first modern book on policing in Scotland and aims to provide an up-to-date and authoritative account of recent developments, taking full account of the impact of devolution and the work of the Scottish...

Community Justice

de Jane Winstone & Francis Pakes

This book provides and accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice. The probation service in particular has undergone...

Communities, Crime Social Capital in Contemporary China

de Lena Zhong

This book explores the theoretical and empirical dimensions of community crime prevention in China, examining in particular the role of social capital in a rapidly modernizing economic, social and political...

Bullying among Prisoners

de Jane Ireland

This book aims to present key aspects of the prison-based bullying research which has taken place over the last few years. It is a field in which there has been considerably increased interest. One of the main...

Handbook of Internet Crime

de Yvonne Jewkes & Majid Yar

An essential reference for scholars and others whose work brings them into contact with managing, policing and regulating online behaviour, the Handbook of Internet Crime emerges at a time of rapid social and...

What Else Works?: Creative Work with Offenders

de Jo Brayford, Francis B Cowe & John Deering

What Else Works? has developed out of a growing awareness amongst practitioners that centralized notions of what works and 'one size fits all' approaches to work with offenders and other groups is inevitably...

Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Reserach, Policy and Practice

de Stephen Case & Kevin Haines

This book aims to provide an understanding of youth offending and policy and practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy...

Computer Misuse: Response, Regulation and the Law

de Stefan Fafinski

This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well...

Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective

de Adam Crawford

This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis...

Justice in Transition

de Anna Eriksson

This book provides a unique account of the high-profile community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the conflict in Northern Ireland....

Transitions to Better Lives: Offender Readiness and Rehabilitation

de Andrew Day, Sharon Casey & Tony Ward

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research - both theoretical and empirical - that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming. It is...

Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement

de Sharon Shalev

This book examines the rise and proliferation of 'Supermaxes', large prisons dedicated to holding prisoners in prolonged and strict solitary confinement, in the United States since the late 1980s.

Drawing on...

Making People Behave: Anti-social Behaviour, Politics and Policy

de Elizabeth Burney

'Anti-social behaviour' has become a label attached to a huge range of nuisance and petty crime, and rarely out of the headlines as tackling this problem has become a central part of the British government's...

Understanding Criminal Careers

de Keith Soothill, Claire Fitzpatrick & Brian Francis

The study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing...

State Crime in the Global Age

de William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski & Ronald Kramer

State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh,...