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Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The perception of the immigrant as criminal or deviant has a long history in the United States, with many groups (e.g., Irish, Italians, Latinos) having been associated with perceived increases in crime and other social problems, although data suggest this is not necessarily the case. This Handbook examines the relationship between immigration and crime by presenting chapters reflecting key issues from both historical and current perspectives. The volume includes a range of topics related to immigration and crime, such as the links between immigration rates and crime rates, nativity and crime, and the social construction of the criminal immigrant, as well as historical and current immigratio...

New Approaches to Social Problems Treatment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

New Approaches to Social Problems Treatment

Examines diverse developments in the evolution of public policy institutions for remedying social problems. This title includes chapters that address the transformation of social problems, social problems work, and social problems solutions in the context of criminal justice, mental health, and community institutions in contemporary society.

Disasters, Hazards and Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Disasters, Hazards and Law

  • Categories: Law

Deals with important social-science issues of law and legal control pertaining to disasters and hazards in a variety of contexts. This title includes: legal controls pertaining to disaster prevention, response, and mitigation; regulations and policies concerning hazardous conditions; and crime and the control thereof in post-disaster situations.

Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control

Contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. This title includes chapters that tease out various criminologically relevant issues, pertaining to crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of various aspects and manifestations of popular culture, including music, and movies.

Homicide and Violent Crime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Homicide and Violent Crime

This edited volume includes chapters, written by experts in the field, dealing with the social-scientific study of the causes, patterns, and consequences of violent crime and homicide in the contemporary world. The themes range from domestic abuse to racial violence and killings in the United States and across the world.

Immigration, Crime and Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Immigration, Crime and Justice

Examines the nexus between immigration and crime from all of the angles. This work addresses not just the evidence regarding the criminality of immigrants but also the research on the victimization of immigrants; human trafficking; domestic violence; the police handling of human trafficking; and, the exportation to crime problems via deportation.

Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times

Theoretically and methodologically diverse, Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times addresses important questions of crime, punishment, policing, social control, and law in relation to COVID-19.

Social Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Social Control

  • Categories: Law

Explains and conceptualizes social control in its diversity. This title includes treatments of informal control (socialization, group formation and the controls exerted in everyday life) as well as medical control (norms regarding health and illness, particularly with regard to notions of 'normal' behaviour).

Music and Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Music and Law

This volume provides a timely discussion of legal issues involved with a variety of aspects of music and the music industry. Written by leading experts on music and law from around the world, the chapters offer unique social-science perspectives relevant to academics and policymakers alike.

Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1225

Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-02
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Victimology and crime prevention are growing, interrelated areas cutting across several disciplines. Victimology examines victims of all sorts of criminal activity, from domestic abuse, to street violence, to victims in the workplace who lose jobs and pensions due to malfeasance by corporate executives. Crime prevention is an important companion to victimology because it offers insight and techniques to prevent situations that lead to crime and attempts to offer ideas and means for mitigating or minimizing the potential for victimization. .In many ways, the two fields have developed along parallel yet separate paths, and the literature on both has been scattered across disciplines as varied ...