Criminology - Law Books

New and Published Books

1. The Criminology of Pleasure

   By Mike McGuire, Simon Hallsworth

   The Criminology of Pleasure offers a new way of thinking about crime and crime control, as it maintains that the very rationale of the criminal justice system lies in the channelling of desire and regulating of pleasure. Criminology has only confronted the importance of the desire/pleasure...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals)

   A look back at the strange case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

   By Brian Jackson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Global Criminology

   Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era

   Edited by K. Jaishankar, Natti Ronel

   Global criminology is an emerging field covering international and transnational crimes that have not traditionally been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. Global Criminology: Crime and Victimization in a Globalized Era is a collection of rigorously peer-reviewed papers...

   Published March 24th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Youth, Crime and Justice

   By Cyndi Banks

   Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency. It encourages readers to adopt an analytical understanding encompassing not only juvenile crime, but also the broader context within which the conditions of juvenile...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Beginning Criminal Law

   By Claudia Carr, Maureen Johnson

   Series: Beginning the Law

   Whether you’re new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Criminal Law is all about, Beginning Criminal Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running. Starting with the basics and an overview of each topic, it will help you...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Talking Criminal Justice

   Language and the Just Society

   By Michael Coyle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This...

   Published February 17th 2013 by Routledge
7. Boy Racer Culture

   Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

   By Karen Lumsden

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Contemporary Drug Policy

   By Henry Brownstein

   Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology

   This book focuses on the use of drugs in our lives and how we respond to them. Whereas drug policy typically centres on the problems of illicit drugs or licit drugs used in illicit ways or circumstances, Contemporary Drug Policy instead considers the wide variety of substances we call drugs as a...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
9. Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice

   Overcoming Intractability in Divided Societies

   By Nevin Aiken

   Series: Transitional Justice

   Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. Bio-Privacy

    Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics

    By Nancy Liu

    Bio-Privacy: Privacy Regulations and the Challenge of Biometrics provides an in-depth consideration of the legal issues posed by the use of biometric technology. Focusing particularly on the relationship between the use of this technology and the protection of privacy, this book draws on material...

    Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge