Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book offers an analysis of the policing of terrorism in a variety of national and international contexts. Centered on developments since the events of September 11, 2001, the study devotes its empirical attention to important police aspects of counter-terrorism in the United States and addition..

This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system offering a detailed overview of both the theory behind it and how it plays out in practice with contemporary policy examples...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system offering a detailed overview of both the theory behind it and how it plays out in practice with contemporary policy examples...

Bringing together leading international researchers, this book reframes the political economy of punishment, analysing penality within the current economic situation and connecting contemporary penal changes with political and cultural processes...

Published in 1974, this book is a landmark text in critical criminology. The new edition includes a new introduction from the author and contributions from leading international criminologists looking at the current state of penal abolitionism...

This book considers the life and work of Margery Fry, her legacy as a Howard League campaigner for penal reform and an international standard of prisoners’ minimum rights, and her role in the establishment of criminology as an academic discipline...

Drawing on a range of contemporary and historical topics and including cases from the UK, US and Russia, this book examines the prison as a political institution and as a site of both politicization and political protest...

This book examines the politics of political violence, truth and reconciliation in the contemporary Arab Middle East. It includes studies of state institutions, civil society and international organizations in Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria...

The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime..

This book aims to provide a critical perspective on prostitution policies and the legal chaos and complexities that surround them. It addresses the range of issues and contemporary debates on the sex industry, and then goes on to show how these issues have been addressed in policy terms, the problem..

This is a thoroughly updated edition of The Prison Officer (2001). The aim of this book is to provide an accessible and interesting guide to the world and work of the Prison Officer, showing the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to every operation carried out by officers. So little has been..

The past fifteen years have seen dramatic growth in imprisonment in the UK, yet our understanding of the lives and experiences of prisoners remains limited. Drawing on in-depth interviews with prisoners, this book aims to redress this by providing insight into various aspects of the lives of prisone..