Crime Control Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Risk Assessment for Juvenile Violent Offending

   Edited by Anna Baldry, Andreas Kapardis

   This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment for juvenile violent offenders. The book is based on a longitudinal data base of juveniles who have committed violent crimes and who have been followed up after ...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Willan
3. Strengthening Systems to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence

   Edited by Pat Conway, Pamela Cox, Patricia Cook-Craig, Sandra Ortega, Theresa Armstead

   Over the past 25 years, developing coordinated responses to intimate partner violence and sexual violence has improved both perpetrator accountability, and victim safety and self-determination. However, preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence from occurring is beyond the ability of...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Stop and Search

   Police Power in Global Context

   Edited by Leanne Weber, Ben Bowling

   Police powers to stop, question and search people in public places, and the way these powers are exercised, is a contentious aspect of police-community relations, and a key issue for criminological and policing scholarship, and for public debate about liberty and security more generally. Whilst...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Intersections of Crime and Terror

   Edited by James J.F. Forest

   During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have focused our attention on the expanded range of interactions between international organized crime and terrorist networks. A majority of these...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Electronically Monitored Punishment

   International and Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Mike Nellis, Kristel Beyens, Dan Kaminski

   Electronic monitoring (EM) is a way of supervising offenders in the community whilst they are on bail, serving a community sentence or after release from prison. Various technologies can be used, including voice verification, GPS satellite tracking and – most commonly - the use of radio frequency...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Willan
7. Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas

   The Gangs and Cartels Wage War

   Edited by Robert Bunker

   In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Serial Killers

   Psychiatry, Criminology and Responsibility

   By Francesca Biagi-Chai

   Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist...

   Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Managing Clinical Risk

   A Guide to Effective Practice

   Edited by Caroline Logan, Lorraine Johnstone

   Series: Issues in Forensic Psychology

   Violence directed towards others and violence directed towards oneself cause an immense amount of physical and psychological damage – to the harmed and the harmful person alike, to their families, and to the public at large. Managing clinical risk is an authoritative manual for practitioners...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Willan
10. Just Authority?

    Trust in the Police in England and Wales

    By Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Betsy Stanko, Katrin Hohl

    What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond between police and the public? These questions are central to current debates concerning the relationship between the...

    Published July 29th 2012 by Willan