Crime and Society Books

New and Published Books

1. Crime Control and Community

   Edited by Gordon Hughes, Adam Edwards

   Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment

   Edited by Stephen Farrall, Richard Sparks, Shadd Maruna, Mike Hough

   Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Genocide, State Crime, and the Law

   In the Name of the State

   By Jennifer Balint

   Genocide, State Crime, and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural, political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. Discussing a series of case studies of genocide – in Armenia, Nazi Germany,...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present

   Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System

   By Bin Liang

   Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture

   This groundbreaking book examines the changing Chinese legal system since 1978. In addition to historical analyses of changes at the economic, political-legal, and social levels, Liang gives special attention to crime and punishment functions of the legal system, and the current judicial...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Child Pornography

   Law and Policy

   By Alisdair A. Gillespie

   Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognized as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. Security Games

   Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

   Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

   Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "...

   Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge
7. Sport, Violence and Society

   By Kevin Young

   Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
8. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

   Remedying the 'Past'?

   Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer

   Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
9. Risk, Power and the State

   After Foucault

   By Magnus Hörnqvist

   Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power,...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Immigration, Social Integration and Crime

    A Cross-National Approach

    By Luigi Solivetti

    Series: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

    The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country’s 'own' citizens, academic interest in these statistics...

    Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish