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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. Foucault and Criminology: An Introduction

   By Veronique Voruz

   Foucault and Criminology: An Introduction provides an introduction to Michel Foucault, written from the perspective of criminology’s engagement with his work. Foucault’s writing has become a central reference in theoretical and sociological criminology generally and, more specifically, in what Jock...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-46041-5 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

3. Child Pornography: Law and Policy

   By Alisdair A Gillespie

   Child Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognised as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49987-3 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

4. Genocide, State Crime, and the Law: In the Name of the State

   By Jennifer Balint

   Genocide, State Crime and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural, political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. Discussing a series of case studies of genocide - in Armenia, Nazi Germany,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-54381-1 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

5. Gender, Violence, and Law

   By Melanie Randall

   The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87117-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Public Sex and the Law: Silent Desire

   By Chris Ashford

   Public Sex and the Law: Silent Desire examines the current legal status and regulation of of public sex. Legal reform of sexuality appears to have focussed upon the lesbian, gay and bisexual communities. But whilst ‘gay’ sexual acts and identities have seen a raft of legal reform and international...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-55287-5 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

7. Policing and Human Rights: From Geneva to Johannesburg

   By Julia Hornberger

   Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-61068-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Sport, Violence and Society

   By Kevin Young

   Is violence an intrinsic component of contemporary sport? How does violence within sport reflect upon the attitudes of wider society? In this landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers the first comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-54995-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Handbook of Human Rights

   Edited by Thomas Cushman

   The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the 21st century....

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-48023-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. 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)