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Speaking Truths to Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Speaking Truths to Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An original and rigorous ethnographic account of transnational policing power, situating the phenomenon of 'glocal policing' in relation to converging development and security discourses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. This volume raises important questions about the purpose and value of criminological engagement with transitional policing.

Reflexivity and Criminal Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Reflexivity and Criminal Justice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research. The contributions to this volume highlight both the challenges and opportunities associated with doing criminological research in a reflexive and collaborative manner. They further examine the ethical and practical implications of the ‘impact’ agenda in the higher education sector with respect to the production and the dissemination of criminological knowledge. Developed to serve as an internationally accessible reference volume for scholars, practitioners and postgraduate criminology students, this book responds to the awareness that criminology as a discipline increasingly encompasses not only the study of crime, but also the agencies, process and structures that regulate it. Key questions include: How can criminal justice policy be studied as part of the field of criminology? How do we account for our own roles as researchers who are a part of the policy process? What factors and dynamics influence, hinder and facilitate ‘good policy’?

Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus

Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus interrogates the claim that crime represents a significant threat to economic development. Combining historical analysis with a unique empirical perspective based on interviews with high-level international crime policy insiders, it accounts for how and why the ‘crime-development nexus’ has been invoked by international actors, including the United Nations, to advance and secure variations of a global capitalist development agenda since the 19th Century. Drawing on perspectives anchored in critical criminology, International Relations, and development studies, Unraveling the Crime Development Nexus reveals that the international crime policy agenda today remains overwhelmingly responsive to those who benefit from the further expansion of neoliberal globalisation, while simultaneously marginalising subordinate actors throughout the ‘developing’ world. The book concludes by considering how international organisations, civil society actors, and major donors might support a more equitable and sustainable model of global crime governance that addresses the structural causes of crime and uneven development at a global level.

The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 704

The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development

This volume brings together a diverse collection of essays that critically examine issues relating to crime and justice in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Chapters examine the issues that practitioners face in working to advance this agenda and the possibilities that exist to advance sustainable development outcomes.

Place, Race and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Place, Race and Politics

Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the social and political processes that combined to construct a media-driven ‘crisis’ concerning African youth crime in the city of Melbourne, Australia.

The United Nations Programme on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The United Nations Programme on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

  • Categories: Law

This book documents the evolution of the United Nations (UN) Crime Programme and its changing priorities, from the early focus on juvenile delinquency and correctional treatment, to the present preoccupation with transnational organized crime. It analyses what factors have contributed to this evolution, and to the shift from the original work on “soft law” resolutions and international standards, to “hard law” conventions, and to the expansion of technical assistance. It also examines the changing structure and working methods of the Programme, such as the UN Crime Commission and the UN Secretariat unit responsible for the Programme, the UN Crime Congresses, and the Programme Network...

The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1068

The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-12
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  • Publisher: Springer

The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology, redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the Global South. Issues of vital criminological research and policy significance abound in the Global South, with important implications for South/North relations as well as global security and justice. In a world of high speed communication technologies and fluid national borders, empire building has shifted from colonising territories to colonising knowledge. The authors of this volume question whose voices, experiences, and theories are reflected in the discipline, and argue that diversity of discourse is mor...

Manitoba Law Journal: Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim) 2017 Volume 40(3)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Manitoba Law Journal: Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim) 2017 Volume 40(3)

  • Categories: Law

Robson Crim is housed in Robson Hall, one of Canada's oldest law schools. Robson Crim has transformed into a Canada wide research hub in criminal law, with blog contributions from coast to coast, and from outside of this nation's borders. With over 30 academic peer collaborators at Canada's top law schools, Robson Crim is bringing leading criminal law research and writing to the reader. We also annually publish a special edition criminal law volume of the Manitoba Law Journal, providing a chance for authors to enter the peer reviewed fray. The Journal has ranked in the top 0.1 percent on Academia.edu and is widely used. This issue has articles from a variety of contributing authors including: Richard Jochelson, Amar Khoday, David Ireland, Kent Roach, R. C. L. Lindsay, Michelle I. Bertrand, Andrew M. Smith, Marie Manikis, Peter Grbac, Amar Khoday, Jonathan Avey, Jeffery Couse, Rebecca Bromwich, Joshua Watts, Michael Weinrath, John Burchill, Dmytro Galagan, James Gacek, Julie Yan, Michelle S. Lawrence, and Melanie Murchison.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice

  • Categories: Law

Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare. Over the years, however, ethnographers in the United States and abroad have amassed an impressive body of work on core criminological topics and groups, including gang members, sex workers, drug dealers, and drug users. Ethnographies on criminal justice institutions have also flourished, with studies on police, courts, and prisons providing deep insights into how these organizations operate and shape the lives of people who encounter them. The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice provides critical and current reviews of key research topics, i...

Dark Commerce
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Dark Commerce

Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential g...