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1. Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

   Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

   Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events: Security Games addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60262-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Routledge International Handbook of Surveillance Studies

   Edited by David Lyon, Kevin Haggerty, Kirstie Ball

   Surveillance is now the primary tool for all organizations. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58883-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. 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...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-54778-9 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

4. Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking: Asian and Western Perspectives

   Edited by Shiro Okubo, Louise Shelley

   In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level. This book fills a gap in the current...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-43701-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Criminal Law and Policy in the European Union

   By Samuli Miettinen

   A literal construction of the EC and EU Treaties suggests that their framers intended to limit the positive competences of both the Community and the Union in the field of criminal law. However, the European Court of Justice has consistently applied tests of necessity and effectiveness to develop...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-47426-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. 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...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55034-5 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Surveillance and Democracy

   Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty, Minas Samatas

   This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-47240-1 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Lifers: Seeking Redemption in Prison

   By John Irwin

   John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment – an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-80198-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Security

   By Lucia Zedner

   Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts, policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between public safety and private protection,...

   March 2009 | 978-0-415-39176-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Policing Developing Democracies

    Edited by Mercedes S. Hinton, Tim Newburn

    There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies. Such societies typically have a host of unresolved pressing social, economic and political questions that impinge on policing and the prospects for reform. There are a series of hugely important questions arising...

    2008 | 978-0-415-42849-1 | Paperback (Routledge)