Theoretical Criminology Books

New and Published Books

1. Risk, Power and the State

   After Foucault

   By Magnus Hörnqvist

   Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for understanding power,...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. Handbook of Human Rights

   Edited by Thomas Cushman

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Existentialist Criminology

   Edited by Donald J Crewe, Ronnie Lippens

   Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

   Edited by Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang, Rosemary Barberet

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing...

   Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. Corrections

   A Critical Approach, 3rd Edition

   By Michael Welch

   Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans,...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. Public Criminology?

   By Ian Loader, Richard Sparks

   Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

   What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas...

   Published July 4th 2010 by Routledge
7. Crime, Inequality and the State

   Edited by Mary Vogel

   Why has crime dropped while imprisonment grows? This well-edited volume of ground-breaking articles explores criminal justice policy in light of recent research on changing patterns of crime and criminal careers. Highlighting the role of conservative social and political theory in giving rise to...

   Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge