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1. The Myth of Moral Panics

   Sex, Snuff, and Satan

   By Bill Thompson, Andy Williams

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective....

   Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Security and Everyday Life

   Edited by Vida Bajc, Willem de Lint

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   When everyday social situations and cultural phenomena come to be associated with a threat to security, security becomes a value which competes with other values – particularly the right to privacy and human rights. In this comparison, security appears as an obvious choice over the loss of some...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

   By Huan Gao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Crime and Justice in International Society

   Edited by Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo, Nerida Chazal

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Increasingly, the paradigm of international crime and justice is being used to understand and regulate international society, as evidenced by the growing use of legal discourse to describe and deal with war and conflict, as well as by a recent proliferation of international criminal justice...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

   By Susan C. Boyd

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Global Gambling

   Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations

   Edited by Sytze F. Kingma

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   While most research has examined the legal, economic and psychological sides of gambling, this innovative collection offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using both historical and present-day case studies from throughout the world, the authors seriously consider...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Social Class and Crime

   A Biosocial Approach

   By Anthony Walsh

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Biology and Criminology

   The Biosocial Synthesis

   By Anthony Walsh

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Family Life and Youth Offending

   Home is Where the Hurt is

   By Raymond Arthur

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   The contention that young people commit offences due to inadequate parenting and parental difficulties has been an abiding feature of the debates on juvenile offending. Previously this evidence has been used to design prevention programmes for young offenders who have been processed by the criminal...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

    Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

    By Caroline Braunmühl

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge