Criminal Behaviour and Forensic Psychology Books

New and Published Books

1. Crack Cocaine Users

   High Society and Low Life in South London

   By Daniel Briggs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

   Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer

   This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape

   A multidisciplinary response to an international problem.

   Edited by Miranda Horvath, Jessica Woodhams

   Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

   Whilst there is considerable literature on rape from various perspectives, there is very little that focuses on rape committed by multiple perpetrators (also referred to as group or gang rape). For the first time, this handbook brings together international multi-disciplinary perspectives on...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. Criminology

   2nd Edition

   By Tim Newburn

   Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction for students of the subject, providing the basis for all undergraduate degree courses or modules, and for new postgraduates, in Criminology. This second edition includes: a complete update of...

   Published December 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Panic

   By Keith Tester

   Series: Shortcuts

   Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities

   Enabling Change the TC way

   By Alisa Stevens

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of English prisons have promoted an alternative method of rehabilitation: the democratic therapeutic community (TC). These...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. An Introduction to Criminal Psychology

   By Russil Durrant

   Crime is a topic that is of considerable interest to policy-makers, politicians andthe public alike. We want to know what factors can explain the nature andprevalence of crime in society and use this knowledge to better develop approaches for managing criminal behaviour. This book provides a...

   Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

    A Feminist Critique

    By Carol Smart

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as...

    Published October 3rd 2012 by Routledge