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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....
To Be Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to independence, civil war and later the Troubles, from poverty to globalisation and the Celtic Tiger, and from the rise to the fall of the Catholic Church. Shaped by all of these changes has been policing. This...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: History of Crime in the UK and Ireland
Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the ‘long’ eighteenth century, a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history. These changes included the introduction of transportation overseas as an alternative to the death penalty, the growth of the magistracy, the birth of...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Penal Power and Colonial Rule provides an account of the distinctive way in which criminology developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power – discipline – that had...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
Series: History of Crime in the UK and Ireland
This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. Chapters include an examination of the growth and experience of imprisonment, policing, and probation services; the recording of crime in official...
To Be Published October 1st 2013 by Routledge
The internationalization of community policing and emergence of democratizing states have highlighted the importance of finding the best model of policing philosophies and practices. Geared towards practitioners and students of policing, this volume explores major innovations and evolutions across...
To Be Published November 25th 2013 by CRC Press
Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
Throughout the nineteenth century and twentieth century, various attempts were made to define and control problematic behaviour by use of the somewhat nebulous concept of ‘indecency’ by legal and legislative means, though remarkably public indecency remains a much under-researched aspect and period...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
