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1. Punitive States: Punishment and the Economy of Violence

   By Simon Hallsworth

   Are there distinctive postmodern forms of punishment? Is the contemporary 'punitive' turn in the United States a sign of things to come in Europe? Is modern rationality at odds with violence, or the means to applying violence systematically? Punitive States links together these key...

   June 2011 | 978-1-904385-11-0 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

2. Delinquency Theories: Appraisals and Applications

   By John P Hoffmann

   This book provides a comprehensive overview of theories of juvenile delinquency. It begins with a description of what a theory is and how theories are created in the social sciences. The remaining chapters describe particular theories – such as social learning theory – by first, telling the tale of...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-78187-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Crime Scenes: Forensics and Aesthetics

   By Rebecca Scott Bray

   Focusing upon the representations that take place in law, forensic medicine, criminology and culture, Crime Scenes examines the ways in which knowledge about crime, death and the dead body is produced. Forensic and medico-legal practices are charged with ‘handling’ the dead (who cannot...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-48391-9 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission

   By Robert Jenkins

   The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was established in December 2005. Its emergence was the culmination of a long and contentious process, stretching back to at least the early 1990s. Robert Jenkins traces the origins and evolution of peacebuilding as a concept, the creation and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-77644-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. 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)

6. Penal Power and Colonial Rule

   By Mark Brown

   Penal Power and Colonial Rule provides an account of the distinctive way in which criminology developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power – discipline – that had...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-45213-7 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

7. The Subject of Prostitution: Sex/Work, Law and Social Theory

   By Jane Scoular

   The Subject of Prostitution offers a distinctive analysis of the links between prostitution and social theory in order to advance a critical analysis of the relationship of law to sex/work. Using the lens of social theory to disrupt fixed meanings the book provides an advanced analytical...

   May 2011 | 978-1-904385-51-6 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. Serial Killers: Psychiatry, Criminology and Responsibility

    By Francesca Biagi-Chai

    Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book – a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru – tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law in most jurisdictions. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-56112-9 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)