Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

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1. Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas

   By Christopher Birkbeck

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   This study examines the ways in which the moral community is "talked into being" in relation to crime, and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the relations between these two groups in the "...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. State Crime and Resistance

   Edited by Elizabeth Stanley, Jude McCulloch

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   Within criminology ‘the state’ is often ignored as an actor or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state are far more...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Sex Work

   Labour, Mobility and Sexual Services

   By JaneMaree Maher, Sharon Pickering, Alison Gerard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active regulation. Globalisation has increased women’s mobility between developing and developed countries at the same time...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge