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Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
This book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain. The criminalization of immigration status has historically served functions of exclusion and control against those who defy the state’s powers over its territory and...
To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
Crime statistics are ubiquitous in modern society – but how accurate are they? This book investigates the science of crime measurement focussing on four main questions: how do we count crime? How do we calculate crime rates? Are there other measurements of crime? What are the issues surrounding...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Law, Development and Globalization
Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
From the post-war police strikes (1918 and 1919) to the plans of petty criminals for the coronation of King George VI (1937), there was always a good story in crime. Crime sold books, filled copy in newspapers, was discussed by politicians and demanded the attention of sociologists, criminologists,...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture. Torturing Terrorists examines, as part of a consequentialist analysis, the nature and impact of torture and the implications of its legal regulation on...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
International Perspectives on Child Victimisation offers a comprehensive overview of the established themes and emergent debates relating to the abuse and victimization of children. Highlighting key areas of global concern, and illustrated with detailed case studies of important developments, Julia...
To Be Published December 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
It is a widespread assumption that crime and criminality can be explained as a consequence of declining morality and that crime can be brought under control by creating stronger communities. This book offers a critical exploration of the theory, policy and rhetoric that unpin this notion and the...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Social control has, in recent times, undergone a series of technological transformations. Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) is one such innovation. Substantial capital has been invested in vast CCTV networks in a bid to influence perception, manage risk and maintain social order. Although one might...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Over the last few years there have been massive changes in police interviewing practices: in many countries police officers no longer interrogate suspects, they interview them. This has been a product of an ever increasing number of cases of miscarriages of justice, many of them featuring false...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Willan
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores the specific role of government institutions and agencies, notably the police, in controlling organised crime, corruption and cross-border crime in Greater China. Drawing heavily on original empirical data which compares both a dejure nation-state like the People’s Republic...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
