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1. Handbook of Internet Crime

   Edited by 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 technological change. Amidst much debate about the dangers presented by the Internet and...

   Published October 31st 2009 by Willan
2. Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment

   Edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Jamie Bennett

   Contemporary prison practice faces many challenges, is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized, influenced by the new National Offender Management Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and...

   Published October 31st 2007 by Willan
3. Handbook on Prisons

   Edited by Yvonne Jewkes

   This is the most comprehensive and ambitious book on prisons to have been published, a key text for anybody studying the subject and an essential work of reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It is especially timely in view of the many...

   Published May 31st 2007 by Routledge
4. Crime Online

   Edited by Yvonne Jewkes

   Crime Online is concerned to explore the dual capacity of the Internet to pervert and to democratize: it offers its users freedom, democracy, and communication with people around the world while at the same time generating anxieties concerning its potential to corrupt vulnerable minds and...

   Published October 31st 2006 by Willan
5. Prison Readings

   Edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Helen Johnston

   Prison Readings provides a comprehensive, critical introduction to the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons and imprisonment, bringing together a selection of the key readings on the subject, along with a comprehensive introduction and commentary written by the editors. It will be...

   Published January 31st 2006 by Willan
6. Dot.cons

   Edited by Yvonne Jewkes

   Cyberspace opens up infinitely new possibilities to the deviant imagination. With access to the Internet and sufficient know-how you can, if you are so inclined, buy a bride, cruise gay bars, go on a global shopping spree with someone else's credit card, break into a bank's security system, plan a...

   Published December 31st 2002 by Willan
7. Captive Audience

   By Yvonne Jewkes

   This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some...

   Published December 31st 2001 by Willan