Crime Prevention Books

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1. Handbook of Critical Criminology

   Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

   The 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 world....

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-77967-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. 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)

3. 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)
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   Surveillance

   By Benjamin Goold

   PIN numbers, credit records, photo IDs and biometric measures play a central role in our daily lives. Instead of being mere by-products of public and private surveillance systems, such tokens of trust are now fundamental to surviving in modern society – so much so that our ‘surveillance profiles’...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-39220-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. 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)

6. Community Justice, 2nd Edition

   By Todd Clear, John R Hamilton, Jr.

   Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs, and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA. Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice debate, this book argues that crime...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-78027-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-55980-5 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

8. Crime Reduction

   Edited by Kate Moss

   Across the globe, challenging and contentious issues about community safety and security increasingly exercise governments and police forces—as well as, for example, town planners and car-park designers. Consequently, as a specialist area within the wider discipline of criminology, crime reduction...

   2008 | 978-0-415-45283-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective

   Edited by Colin J Bennett, David Lyon

   National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the...

   2008 | 978-0-415-46564-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Combating International Crime: The Longer Arm of the Law

    Edited by Steven David Brown

    The realities of international law enforcement are widely misunderstood and generally mystifying to the uninitiated. Combating cross border crime is a dynamic aspect of criminal justice that is becoming increasingly complex and directly relevant to national and local level policing. Unfortunately,...

    2008 | 978-0-415-45828-3 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)