Criminology and Criminal Justice Books

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21. Offending Girls

    Young Women and Youth Justice

    By Gilly Sharpe

    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, panic about girls’ offending in Britain reached fever pitch. No longer sugar and spice, a ‘new breed’ of girl, the hedonistic, violent, binge-drinking ‘ladette’, was reported to have emerged. At the same time, the number of young women entering the youth...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Willan
22. Evolution and Crime

    By Jason Roach, Ken Pease

    Series: Crime Science Series

    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 on evolution and the topic of evolution rarely even mentioned in criminology...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Willan
23. Psychology in the Courts

    Edited by Raymond R. Corrado, Rebecca Dempster, Ronald Roesch

    This book provides a useful overview of the latest research into the interaction between psychology and the courts. Leading scholars and practitioners review recent research and practice in a number of principal areas:* adolescents in the legal system* the role of juries* competency to stand trial*...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
24. Psychology and Law in a Changing World

    New Trends in Theory, Practice and Research

    Edited by Lara Bagnoli, Giovanni B. Traverso

    Criminal psychology, and its relationship to the practice of law, has become a topic of major significance over the last three decades. Psychologists play a key role in modern criminal investigation and are central to crime reduction measures such as offender profiling, delinquency prevention and...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
25. Out of Order? (Routledge Revivals)

    Policing Black People

    Edited by E. Cashmore, E. McLaughlin

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1991, this book evaluates and compares the problematic relationships that have sometimes existed between police and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain and in the United States of America. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic assess conflicting claims from police and black...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
26. The Delinquent Solution (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study in Subcultural Theory

    By David Downes

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues such as the concept and theory of subcultures, the life of delinquent gangs, and the English experience of delinquent subcultures. It also takes an...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
27. Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals)

    By John Braithwaite

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime, and presents its own findings on these matters. It explores two major questions. First, do policies designed to redistribute wealth and...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
28. Cross-Border Law Enforcement

    Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    Edited by Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

    This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
29. Patterns, Prevention, and Geometry of Crime

    Edited by Martin Andresen, J. Bryan Kinney

    Series: Crime Science Series

    P&P Brantingham’s enormous contribution to criminology has paved the way for major theoretical and empirical developments in the understanding of crime and its respective patterns, prevention, and geometry. In this unique collection of original essays, Andresen and Kinney bring together leading...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
30. Human Trafficking

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    By Mary C. Burke

    Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

    The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In order to solve this or any social problem, it is...

    Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge