Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book explores the questions of why policy makers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence and how scholars and practitioners can encourage policymakers to listen to research. In exploring these questions, this book presents a fascinating case study of a policy that did not wo..

Drawn from recent proceedings of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), this volume explores major policing initiatives and evolutions across the globe and presents practical insights on how police are retooling their profession. The book discusses the trends in evolving police roles a..

The Freedom Fighter: A Terrorist’s Own Story explores why so many Kurdish people—especially young adults—join the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and conduct terrorist acts. Inspired by the ground-breaking classic, The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story, by Clifford R. Shaw, the author explore..

The Freedom Fighter: A Terrorist’s Own Story explores why so many Kurdish people—especially young adults—join the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and conduct terrorist acts. Inspired by the ground-breaking classic, The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story, by Clifford R. Shaw, the author explore..

Following Martinson’s "nothing works doctrine," scholars have worked to develop an evidence-based corrections theory and practice to show "what works" to change offenders. Perhaps the most important contribution to this effort was made by Donald Andrews, James Bonta, and Paul Gendreau, who developed..

Following Martinson’s "nothing works doctrine," scholars have worked to develop an evidence-based corrections theory and practice to show "what works" to change offenders. Perhaps the most important contribution to this effort was made by Donald Andrews, James Bonta, and Paul Gendreau, who developed..

As communities continue to undergo rapid demographic shifts that modify their composition, culture, and collective values, police departments serving those communities must evolve accordingly in order to remain effective. This volume provides concrete instruction to agencies on how to promote succes..

Bringing together contributions from both key academic thinkers and police professionals, this book discusses new policing paradigms, lays out a case for an evidence-based practice approach and draws attention to developing areas such as terrorism, public order and hate crime...

Bringing together leading experts from psychology, criminology, sociology and economics, this book asks whether the rational choice approach exceeded its usefulness in crime prevention and considers alternative possibilities for future research...

This title was first published in 2001. This investigation of the future of global terrorism employs the World Systems perspective in the explanation of terrorist activity and explores the etiological determinants of international terrorism. The unique theoretical perspective presented in the book h..

The Lineaments of Wrath..

Philip Zimbardo is fascinated by why people can behave in awful ways...