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1. Contradictions of Terrorism

   Security, Risk and Resilience

   By Gabe Mythen, Sandra Walklate

   Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology

   Over the last decade there has been a significant growth in literature dealing with terrorism, though it is only more recently that scholars within mainstream sociology and criminology began to seriously grapple with the problem of terrorism and the questions that it poses for the discipline. This...

   To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge
2. Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice

   2nd Edition

   By Sandra Walklate

   This book provides a lucid and highly acclaimed introduction to gender issues in crime and criminal justice, central to any understanding of crime and criminal justice policy and practice. This second edition has been updated to take full account of recent developments, particularly in the areas...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Willan
3. Victimology (Routledge Revivals)

   The Victim and the Criminal Justice Process

   By Sandra Walklate

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular. The study of victims of crime is important to academics, the wider community...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

   Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Gender and Crime

   Edited by Sandra Walklate

   Series: Critical Concepts in Criminology

   In the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Wootton was among the first to ask fundamental and challenging questions of criminology; about its structure as a discipline and its explanatory potential...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Handbook on Sexual Violence

   Edited by Jennifer Brown, Sandra Walklate

   This book contextualizes the complexity of sexual violence within its broader context – from war to the resolution of interpersonal disputes – and covers a wide span including sexual harassment, bullying, rape and murder as well as domestic violence. Written by leading academics from a variety...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Thing about Museums

   Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation

   Edited by Sandra Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

   The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of...

   Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge
8. Criminology: The Basics

   2nd Edition

   By Sandra Walklate

   Series: The Basics

   As crime continues to be a high profile issue troubling politicians, the public and the media alike, the study of criminology has boomed. Providing an international and comparative introduction to the discipline, Criminology: The Basics is an accessible guide to the theoretical and practical...

   Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Handbook of Victims and Victimology

   Edited by Sandra Walklate

   The study of criminal victimisation has developed to the stage where by victimology is now regarded as a central component to the study of crime and criminology. This focus of concern has been matched by the growth and development of support services for the victim of crime alongside increasing...

   Published August 31st 2007 by Willan
10. Murder

    By Shani D'Cruze, Sandra Walklate, Samantha Pegg

    Series: Crime and Society Series

    This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to...

    Published March 31st 2006 by Willan