Criminology & Criminal Justice Books

Young Offenders and the Law: How the Law Responds to Youth Offending by Raymond Arthur, (Teesside University, UK) is the first book on the market to address youth offending as a legal problem, rather than a criminological, sociological or psychological problem.

Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife by Geoffrey Hunt, Molly Moloney and Kristin Evans takes the reader inside the electronic dance scene, a text rich with firsthand accounts from ravers, DJ’s, and promoters.

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Second Edition, is the newest title by acclaimed criminologist Shaun L. Gabbidon, Pennsylvania State University. A new addition to Routledge's Criminology and Justice series, the book will work perfectly in courses dealing with criminal justice, crime theory, and race and crime.

See what's new and upcoming from Routledge's Key Ideas in Criminology series! Key Ideas in Criminology explores the major concepts, issues, debates and controversies in criminology.

Routledge remembers John Irwin, Criminologist, beloved professor, Advocate for Prison Reform, and Routledge author, who died this month at the age of 80.

Irwin, author of Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison (as well as five other books) lived a life that proves it is possible to change for the better. A former inmate at Soledad Prison in California, Irwin remade himself, morphing from criminal to criminologist. After serving a five year sentence for armed robbery, Irwin went on to graduate college and earn a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

In an expanding field of research, Organized Crime arrives at a time when no other reference collections on this scale are available.