Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book offers rare and empirically grounded insights into networks of human trafficking offenders and victims. It is based on systematic research into sex trafficking, designed to uncover the characteristics of those involved, the nature of their connections and interactions, the logistics of the..

This book provides a highly readable account of offender profiling. It presents an overview of profiling techniques, and offers insights into the various approaches to profiling and schools of thought which have emerged...

Drawing upon original qualitative research with prisoners in three democratic therapeutic communities (TCs), this book provides a unique sociological portrayal and new criminological understanding of the TC’s rehabilitative regime and culture...

Drawing upon original qualitative research with prisoners in three democratic therapeutic communities (TCs), this book provides a unique sociological portrayal and new criminological understanding of the TC’s rehabilitative regime and culture...

This major new book brings together leading researchers in the field in order to describe and analyse internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and to address the policy and practice implications of this work within and across jurisdictions. Arising out of t..

The book addresses the issue of assessing the reliability of information about crime from offenders, taking stock of the various methods used to elicit information on offending from offenders and collecting useful information on criminal behaviour...

This book stimulates and furnishes a debate about the proper place of rehabilitation within a plural, morally defensible, and effective response to crime and will be essential reading for both students and practitioners within criminal justice...

In this book, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance and explores the life stories of six Scottish men (in their forties), focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. In examining their..

In this book, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance and explores the life stories of six Scottish men (in their forties), focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. In examining their..

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between psychology, moral reasoning theory and offending behaviour. It sets out the theory and research which has been carried out in the field, and examines the ways in which this knowledge has been used in practice to inf..

This book examines sex offenders' perspectives of the way they are treated and managed. It is based around in-depth interviews with 32 convicted male sex offenders, providing a remarkable insight into offenders' perceptions of initiatives designed to both treat and control their risk of future offen..

Cesare Beccaria's influential treatise On Crimes and Punishments is a foundational work in the field of criminology. Based on the 1984 Francioni text, the most exhaustive Italian edition of Dei delitti e delle pene, this translated edition, the last that Beccaria personally oversaw and revised, expl..