Socio-Legal Studies - Public Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment

   Edited by Stephen Farrall, Richard Sparks, Shadd Maruna, Mike Hough

   Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. Online Child Sexual Abuse

   Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World

   By Elena Martellozzo

   Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Child Pornography

   Law and Policy

   By Alisdair A. Gillespie

   Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognized as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Policing the Markets

   Inside the Black Box of Securities Enforcement

   By James Williams

   Set against the backdrop of the recurring waves of financial scandal and crisis to hit Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe over the last decade, this book examines the struggles of securities enforcement agencies to police the financial markets. While allegations of regulatory failure in this realm...

   Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Law and Development in Asia

   Edited by Gerald Paul McAlinn, Caslav Pejovic

   Series: Routledge Law in Asia

   This book fills a gap in the literature by presenting a comprehensive overview of the key issues relating to law and development in Asia. Over recent decades, experts in law and development have produced multiple theories on law and development, none of which were derived from close study of Asian...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

   Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is a collection of original essays specifically designed to offer students, faculty, policy makers, and others an in-depth overview of the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists around the...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
7. On the Right of Exclusion

   Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy

   By Bas Schotel

   On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses Western immigration policies regarding so-called ‘normal migrants’, i.e. migrants without a legal right to admission. The book argues that if authorities cannot substantially justify the exclusion of a normal migrant, the...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Immigration, Social Integration and Crime

   A Cross-National Approach

   By Luigi Solivetti

   Series: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

   The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country’s 'own' citizens, academic interest in these statistics...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. 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
10. Privatising the Public University

    The Case of Law

    By Margaret Thornton

    Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret...

    Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge