Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of criminal justice policy from crime prevention to rehabilitation and brings together leading experts in the field to discuss how criminology can advance sound and evidence-based policy...

This book is designed to promote the understanding of various quantitative research methods and to encourage their use among those seeking answers to questions about crime and justice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education...

This book is designed to promote the understanding of various quantitative research methods and to encourage their use among those seeking answers to questions about crime and justice. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education...

Offers a profound overview of the changing understanding of crime and criminals, of criminal justice systems and penology, and of the tensions and dilemmas these pose for democratic societies...

This book examines alternative approaches to incorporating affect into criminal decision making and testing its influence on such decisions. In so doing it generalizes extant cognitive theories of criminal decision making by incorporating affect into the decision process. In two conceptual and ten e..

The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic...

The relationship between ageing and crime has been a much neglected issue, the focus rather being on youth...

This book seeks to understand the nature of the connection between alcohol and crime, and the way the criminal justice system responds to the problem, providing a clear and accessible account and analysis of the subject. It draws upon a wide range of sources and research findings, and also sets the ..

Alternate Light Source Imaging..

Bringing together leading  international experts, and uniting fresh theoretical positions, with the best of current empirical research, this book marks a key juncture in considering the state-of-the-art of criminology and its imagined futures...

Bringing together leading  international experts, and uniting fresh theoretical positions, with the best of current empirical research, this book marks a key juncture in considering the state-of-the-art of criminology and its imagined futures...

As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole...