Criminology and Criminal Justice Books

New and Published Books

1. Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe

   A Multilevel Perspective

   Edited by Diana Schmidt-Pfister, Holger Moroff

   Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Young Adult Offenders

   Lost in Transition?

   Edited by Friedrich Lösel, Anthony Bottoms, David P. Farrington

   Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

   This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies....

   Published May 28th 2012 by Willan
3. Technology, Crime and Justice

   The Question Concerning Technomia

   By Michael McGuire

   As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more comprehensive ways there are increasing questions about how the 'rights' and 'wrongs' of technological use can be adequately categorized. To date, the scope of such questions have been limited – focused upon specific technologies such as...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Willan
4. Gender and Crime

   Edited by Sandra Walklate

   Series: Critical Concepts in Criminology

   In the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Wootton was among the first to ask fundamental and challenging questions of criminology; about its structure as a discipline and its explanatory potential...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe

   Illegal partnerships

   By Philip Gounev, Vincenzo Ruggiero

   Series: Organizational Crime

   In Corruption and Organised Crime in Europe, Gounev and Ruggiero present a discussion of the relation between organized criminals and corruption in the EU’s 27 Member States. The book draws on research and scholarly work the editors carried out, respectively, within the Center for the Study of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Policing Sex

   Edited by Paul Johnson, Derek Dalton

   This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Crime Reduction and Problem-oriented Policing

   Edited by Karen Bullock, Nick Tilley

   Series: Crime Science Series

   Problem-oriented policing has been one of the most significant new approaches to policing and crime reduction in recent years, and in the UK significant funding was provided to a variety of projects adopting a problem solving methodology in both policing and crime prevention and reduction...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Criminal Behaviour in Context

   Space, Place and Desistance from Crime

   By Nick Flynn

   Series: International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

   This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance – 'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' – is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis, as well as more general...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Gender and Policing

    By Louise Westmarland

    Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities),...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge