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Browse Criminology & Criminal Justice books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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Recently Published Books

1. 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 July 26th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. International Law and the Third World

   Reshaping Justice

   Edited by Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Jacqueline Stevens

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   This volume is devoted to critically exploring the past, present and future relevance of international law to the priorities of the countries, peoples and regions of the South. Within the limits of space it has tried to be comprehensive in scope and representative in perspective and...

   Published July 26th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Honour, Violence, Women and Islam

   Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss, Tahir Abbas

   Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand? What do such crimes represent? And how does HRV fit in with Western views and perceptions of Islam? This distinctively comparative collection examines the concept of HRV against women in general and Muslim women...

   Published July 22nd 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Social Class and Crime

   A Biosocial Approach

   By Anthony Walsh

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
5. Biometrics

   Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

   By Joseph Pugliese

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in order to facilitate and guarantee identity verification and authentication. In the post-9/11 world, biometric technologies have experienced an extraordinary period of growth as concerns...

   Published July 19th 2010 by Routledge
6. Dirty Dancing

   An Ethnography of Lap Dancing

   By Rachela Colosi

   Series: Crime Ethnography

   Based on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of lap-dancing. As well as the relationships between dancers, the author offers a unique insider's account of...

   Published July 19th 2010 by Willan
7. Technologies of InSecurity

   The Surveillance of Everyday Life

   Edited by Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus, Heidi Mork Lomell

   Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life. Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. A History of Drugs

   Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

   By Toby Seddon

   Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ‘dangerous drugs’, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others – from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ‘medicines’ – are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a...

   Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. 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
10. A New Response to Youth Crime

    Edited by David Smith

    Antisocial and criminal behaviour involving children and young people have been a cause of heightened public concern in England and Wales for more than a quarter of a century. It has been the subject of numerous policy papers, research studies and academic assessments as well as extensive newspaper...

    Published June 30th 2010 by Willan