Crime Control Books

New and Published Books – Page 2

11. Intersections of Crime and Terror

    Edited by James J.F. Forest

    During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have focused our attention on the expanded range of interactions between international organized crime and terrorist networks. A majority of these...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
12. Electronically Monitored Punishment

    International and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens, Dan Kaminski

    Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or after release from prison. Various technologies can be used, including voice verification, GPS satellite tracking and – most commonly - the use of radio frequency...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Willan
13. Serial Killers

    Psychiatry, Criminology and Responsibility

    By Francesca Biagi-Chai

    Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist...

    Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
14. Managing Clinical Risk

    A Guide to Effective Practice

    Edited by Caroline Logan, Lorraine Johnstone

    Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

    Violence directed towards others and violence directed towards oneself cause an immense amount of physical and psychological damage – to the harmed and the harmful person alike, to their families, and to the public at large. Managing clinical risk is an authoritative manual for practitioners...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Willan
15. Just Authority?

    Trust in the Police in England and Wales

    By Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Betsy Stanko, Katrin Hohl

    What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond between police and the public? These questions are central to current debates concerning the relationship between the...

    Published July 29th 2012 by Willan
16. Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

    Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

    Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe, John Deering

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
17. Crime Reduction and Problem-oriented Policing

    Edited by Karen Bullock, Nick Tilley

    Series: Crime Science Series

    Problem-oriented policing has been one of the most significant new approaches to policing and crime reduction in recent years, and in the UK significant funding was provided to a variety of projects adopting a problem solving methodology in both policing and crime prevention and reduction...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
18. Criminal Behaviour in Context

    Space, Place and Desistance from Crime

    By Nick Flynn

    Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

    This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance – 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' – is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
19. Superhighway Robbery

    By Graeme R. Newman, Ronald Clarke

    Series: Crime Science Series

    This book, written by two leading authorities in the field, provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to internet and e-commerce crime, exploring ways in which concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be fruitfully applied in this new...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
20. Forensic Identification and Criminal Justice

    By Carole McCartney

    This book provides an account of the development of forensic identification technologies and the way in which this has impacted upon the legal system. It traces the advent of forensic identification technologies, focusing on fingerprinting and forensic DNA typing, and their growing deployment...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge