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International and Transnational Crime and Justice
Provides a key textbook on the nature of international and transnational crimes and the delivery of justice for crime control and prevention.
Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice
This volume brings together the world-class scholarship of 23 widely acclaimed and influential contributing authors from North America and Europe. The latest research is presented in 18 chapters focusing on the frequency, causes, and consequences of wrongful convictions and other miscarriages of justice and offering recommendations for both legal and public policy reforms that can help reduce the causes of these errors while protecting public safety as well.
Measuring Cybercrime in Europe: the Role of Crime Statistics and Victimisation Surveys
This title is also digitally accessible through Open Access. Follow this link to view the publication. Cybercrime has become part of everyday life. We live in hybrid societies, fluctuating between the material and the virtual world, and we are hence confronted with online, offline and hybrid offences. However, the few victimisation surveys conducted in Europe reveal that victims of online crimes seldom report them to the police. Consequently, cybercrimes - which according to the best estimates represent between one third and more than half of all attempted and completed crimes in Europe - seldom appear in national criminal statistics. The State seems powerless to prevent them and private sec...
The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance
Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both an objective normative approach and a subjective, reactivist approach to the topic, putting into sharp relief the distinctions between cybercrime and online deviance on the one hand, and wider concerns of online communities related to online deviance on the other. Divided into five sections, the first section is devoted primarily to scholarship about the theories and methods foundational to explori...
Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times
"Overcrowded times : solving the prison problem," a publication published : Castine, Me. : Published for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation by Castine Research Corp., 1990-1999--[taken from OCLC record].
International Handbook of Criminology
The second handbook in the Shoham trilogy, which includes the esteemed International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice and the upcoming International Handbook of Victimology, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of criminology theory. This text contains contributions from 25 of the top international scholars in the field across a wide range of disciplines. Topics include social deviance, research methods, biological and physiological explanations, personality types, and family socialization processes. The book also explores ecological and economic factors, differential association and situational crime prevention, cultural conflicts and immigration, as well as stigmas, group delinquency and juvenile delinquency.
Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights
This book seeks to identify structures that trap workers in conditions of exploitation. It focuses specifically on 'state mediated structural injustice', where legislative schemes that promote otherwise legitimate aims create inadvertent vulnerabilities for workers.
The Link between Specific Forms of Online and Offline Victimization
This book features the empirical work of internationally known scholars, providing an in-depth examination of the overlap between online and offline victimization and offending. The vast expanse of the Internet has provided a limitless playground for offenders to prey on those unaware of their predators, or well as those who are intimately familiar with their offenders. However, the Internet does not isolate offenders into mutually exclusive categories. Instead, it has allowed many offenders to use both offline and online platforms to commit crime. It also opened up more opportunity for violation of victims. This volume features two divisions of the American Society of Criminology, the Divis...
Handbook of European Homicide Research
This comprehensive work provides a sourcebook of information about the substantive, methodological, and policy-oriented aspects of homicide research in Europe. Part one of this work covers the most recent substantive and methodological information about European homicide research. The second part will contains detailed case studies on homicide research in 15-20 individual European nations. This work will be both conceptual and practical. conceptual and practical. Conceptual aspects will focus on theoretical frameworks and patterns and trends of violence in Europe. Practical aspects will examine the results of empirical research, topics relating to different data sources and the variation of ...
Deaths in Custody
Deaths in Custody : Third report of session 2004-05, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
