Theories of Crime 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. Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice

   Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems

   Edited by C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias’ earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways: (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. Public Order and Private Lives (Routledge Revivals)

   The Politics of Law and Order

   By Michael Brake, Chris Hale

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, Public Order and Private Lives is a radical examination of the political forces which shaped the law and order debate in Britain at that time. The authors offer a significant and provoking analysis of Conservative policies on crime, showing that, ironically, they created...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Victimology (Routledge Revivals)

   The Victim and the Criminal Justice Process

   By Sandra Walklate

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular. The study of victims of crime is important to academics, the wider community...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Criminal Justice

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Joyce

   This new and expanded edition builds upon material from the highly successful first edition. A comprehensive textbook on the criminal justice system, the book assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white-collar and corporate crime), discusses the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Contrasts in Punishment

   An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism

   By John Pratt, Anna Eriksson

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   Why do some modern societies punish their offenders differently to others? Why are some more punitive and others more tolerant in their approach to offending and how can these differences be explained? Based on extensive historical analysis and fieldwork in the penal systems of England, Australia,...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Cesare Lombroso Handbook

   Edited by Paul Knepper, Per Jørgen Ystehede

   The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant conduct in the human sciences. The Cesare Lombroso Handbook brings together essays by leading Lombroso scholars and is divided into four main parts,...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. New Directions in Crime and Deviancy

   Edited by Simon Winlow, Rowland Atkinson

   Criminology is at a crossroads. In the last two decades it has largely failed to produce the kind of new intellectual frameworks and empirical data that might help us to explain the high levels of crime and interpersonal violence that beset inner city areas and corrode community life. Similarly, it...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Punishment

   By Thom Brooks

   Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? Which theory of punishment is most compelling? Is the death penalty ever justified? These questions and many others are addressed in this highly engaging guide. Punishment is a critical...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Panic

    By Keith Tester

    Series: Shortcuts

    Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop...

    Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge