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Since the publication of the first edition of 'Hate Crime' in 2005, interest in this subject as a scholarly and political domain has grown considerably both in Britain and North America, but significantly also in many other parts of the world. As such, this second edition fully revises and updates...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
This new book brings together some of the leading criminologists across Europe, to showcase the best of European criminology. This Handbook aims to reflect the range and depth of current work in Europe, and to counterbalance the impact of the – sometimes insular and ethnocentric – Anglo-American...
To Be Published July 14th 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: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain stubbornly high. Sport can be a means through which to engage with even the most challenging and complex individuals caught up...
To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Crime Science Series
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral...
To Be Published November 10th 2013 by Routledge
This book aims to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system- taken to mean the response that is made to domestic violence through agencies that include the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
Human trafficking is the third largest business for organized crime worldwide, next to illegal weapons trading and drugs. Written by well-respected criminal justice scholars, this book covers the criminal investigation of sex trafficking. Focusing on multidisciplinary criminal...
To Be Published December 12th 2013 by CRC Press
Series: Crime Science Series
Situational crime prevention (SCP) has been widely used to reduce criminal opportunities and thereby reduce crime. Most applications of situational crime prevention have involved traditional crimes of theft and violence occurring in the towns and cities of the developed world. This book breaks new...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Now over ten years since the publication of Peter Squires’ Gun Culture or Gun Control?, the issues and developments pertaining to guns violence and gun control have changed drastically. Indeed, the gap between the UK and the US in their attitudes and experience of gun culture has grown and a number...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
Significant volumes of natural resources are illegally harvested and their proceeds laundered in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering corruption and undermining environmental governance. This book looks at ways to tackle illegal fishing and logging in the region by the use of cooperative legal...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
