Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book focuses on new research and conceptual thinking on Internet child pornography that views perpetrators within context, examines those impacted by such offending, describes emerging legal and policy issues, and proposes innovative strategies for prevention within a dynamic global environment..

Understanding Crime..

This book aims to integrate psychological and criminological perspectives in order to better understand the nature of criminal behaviour...

This is an accessible text which clarifies the crucial theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of criminal careers looking at the issues of prediction, risk and specialisation..

This student-friendly text offers a comprehensive overview of current debates and key issues in the delivery of criminal justice and examines how it operates in context and in practice with a wealth of features such as case studies and questions...

This student-friendly text offers a comprehensive overview of current debates and key issues in the delivery of criminal justice and examines how it operates in context and in practice with a wealth of features such as case studies and questions...

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of and introduction to the criminal justice system in Hong Kong, covering processes and overarching themes such as policing, prosecution, courts, corrections and crime prevention...

This book aims to bring together the pioneering research on gender based violence that has been conducted by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Topics discussed include violence in young people’s relationships, prostitution policy, di..

Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in today’s world. Since 1990, the federal government has published annual reports on hate crime incidents in the United States. While the reported numbers are disturbing, even more devastating is the impact of these crim..

Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in today’s world. Since 1990, the federal government has published annual reports on hate crime incidents in the United States. While the reported numbers are disturbing, even more devastating is the impact of these crim..

The aim of the book is to promote better work with offenders, based on strategies which understand the links between the home backgrounds of the offenders and criminal activity. It has the endorsement of the Association of Chief Probation Officers...

This book brings together leading criminologists to explore internationally significant and cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work on the cultures, practices, roles and impacts of frontline practitioners in delivering penal sanctions...