Forms of Crime Books

New and Published Books

1. Illegal Markets and the Economics of Organized Crime

   Edited by Martin Bouchard, Chris Wilkins

   This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic aspects of organised crime and illegal markets. It provides new insights into defining and quantifying the influence of organised crime by drawing on innovative approaches to studying criminal...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Terrorism Reader

   4th Edition

   Edited by David J. Whittaker

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   The Terrorism Reader is an intriguing introduction to a notorious and disturbing international phenomenon. The book draws together material from a variety of experts and clearly explains their opinions on terrorism, allowing understanding, conjecture and debate. David J. Whittaker explores all...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Money Laundering – An Endless Cycle?

   A Comparative Analysis of the Anti-Money Laundering Policies in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada

   By Nicholas Ryder

   This book provides a detailed examination of anti-money laundering policies and legislative frameworks in a number of jurisdictions and considers how successful these jurisdictions have been in implementing international measures to combat money laundering. Looking at the instruments and proposals...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law

   From Speakers' Corner to War Crimes

   Edited by Predrag Dojcinovic

   Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law addresses the emerging jurisprudence and international law concerning propaganda in war crimes investigations and trials. The role of propaganda in the perpetration of atrocities has emerged as a central theme in the war crimes trials in the past...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
5. Crime, Policy and the Media

   The Shaping of Criminal Justice, 1989-2010

   By Jon Silverman

   Media clamour on issues relating to crime, justice and civil liberties has never been more insistent. Whether it is the murder of James Bulger or detaining terrorist suspects for long periods without trial, mediated comment has grown immeasurably over the last twenty years. So, how does it...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. Crack Cocaine Users

   High Society and Low Life in South London

   By Daniel Briggs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. Honour, Violence, Women and Islam

   Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss, Tahir Abbas

   Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy

   Edited by Julia Davidson, Petter Gottschalk

   Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse. Internet use has grown considerably over the last five years, and information technology now forms a...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

   Edited by Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang, Rosemary Barberet

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing...

   Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Youth in Crisis?

    'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence

    Edited by Barry Goldson

    Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Paradoxically, youth researchers have conventionally been reluctant to even use the term 'gang' but, more recently, such reluctance has receded. Indeed, it is increasingly claimed that – in particular urban...

    Published February 6th 2011 by Routledge