Theoretical Criminology Books

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   Feminist Criminology

   By Claire M. Renzetti

   Feminist criminology grew out of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s in response to the neglect of women by, and the male dominance of, mainstream criminology. This important volume traces the development of feminist criminology and assesses its impact on the discipline. Examining the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-38142-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd Edition

   By Michael Welch

   Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans,...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-78209-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

   Edited by Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang, Rosemary Barberet

   This handbook represents the latest thinking and findings from a group of senior and promising young scholars around the world who came together in an effort to broaden our perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders and nationalities. This collaborative project ...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-77909-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Public Criminology?

   By Ian Loader, Richard Sparks

   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...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-44550-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault

   By Magnus Hörnqvist

   Risk, Power and the State: After Foucault addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations. Through a detailed analysis of programmatic attempts to shape behaviour linked to considerations of risk, this book pursues the argument that, whilst Foucault is useful for...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-54768-0 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Existentialist Criminology

   Edited by Don Crewe, Ronnie Lippens

   Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their...

   2008 | 978-0-415-46771-1 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Crime, Inequality and the State

   Edited by Mary Vogel

   Why has crime dropped while imprisonment grows? This well-edited volume of ground-breaking articles explores criminal justice policy in light of recent research on changing patterns of crime and criminal careers. Highlighting the role of conservative social and political theory in giving rise to...

   2007 | 978-0-415-38268-7 | Paperback (Routledge)