Forms of Crime Books

New and Published Books

1. Crack Cocaine Users

   High Society and Low Life in South London

   By Daniel Briggs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol

   Edited by Christopher M. Moreno, Robert Wilton

   The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life. At the same time, they are key sites of intervention for a broad array of state and non-state actors...

   Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Investigating Computer-Related Crime, Second Edition

   By Peter Stephenson, Keith Gilbert

   Since the last edition of this book was written more than a decade ago, cybercrime has evolved. Motives have not changed, but new means and opportunities have arisen with the advancement of the digital age. Investigating Computer-Related Crime: Second Edition incorporates the results of research...

   Published April 18th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Critical Infrastructure

   Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Third Edition

   By Robert S. Radvanovsky, Allan McDougall

   Since the initial inception of this book, there have been significant strides to safeguard the operations of our world’s infrastructures. In recent years, there has also been a shift to more fluid postures associated with resilience and the establishment of redundant infrastructure. In keeping with...

   Published April 10th 2013 by CRC Press
5. Contemporary Drug Policy

   By Henry Brownstein

   Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology

   This book focuses on the use of drugs in our lives and how we respond to them. Whereas drug policy typically centres on the problems of illicit drugs or licit drugs used in illicit ways or circumstances, Contemporary Drug Policy instead considers the wide variety of substances we call drugs as a...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Sexually Motivated Crimes

   Understanding the Profile of the Sex Offender and Applying Theory to Practice

   By Janet R. Oliva

   In cases where minimal or no physical evidence exists, behavioral evidence may be all that investigators have available to help them focus the investigation. It may be the only aspect of the case that can link one unsolved case to another, or to numerous other unsolved cases. Sexually Motivated...

   Published December 11th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law

   From Speakers' Corner to War Crimes

   Edited by Predrag Dojcinovic

   Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law addresses the emerging jurisprudence and international law concerning propaganda in war crimes investigations and trials. The role of propaganda in the perpetration of atrocities has emerged as a central theme in the war crimes trials in the past...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Banking Secrecy and Offshore Financial Centers

   Money laundering and offshore banking

   By Mary Alice Young

   Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

   This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Organised Sexual Abuse

   By Michael Salter

   Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys

    Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

    By Lisa Williams

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their...

    Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge