This ground-breaking book contains over forty essays by some of the leading commentators on the burgeoning academic field of Surveillance Studies, covering most if not all of the critical challenges of surveillance and population control; policing, intelligence and war; the new social networking media; the emerging capacities of geo-location, identity recognition and real time tracking, as well as the thorny questions of future regulation and resistance, over a generous volume of some 437 pages.
Whilst there are other excellent Surveillance Studies readers, such as the work edited by Hier and Greenberg (2007), the formidable profile, diversity, breadth and scope of the Routledge collection, make it quite simply, definitive. Here we have authors such as James Rule, Gary Marx, David Lyon and Clive Norris—who essentially founded the field—mixed with new authors who take the insights of these pathfinders into new domains. The Handbook could not be more timely, as the pace of technological innovation in surveillance transcends many of the existing legal and cultural limits and understandings of its role and function. The year of its publication sees new evaluation and ethical initiatives by the EU,
such as the PACT project which will question 27,000 citizens on their perceptions of the trade-off between security and privacy. 2012 also heralded a new awareness of policy in research funding into security to fully evaluate the societal impacts of surveillance research which is now a formal EC requirement for all the work it funds. But the wave of second and third order impacts of the new surveillance capacity are affecting people world-wide, often with little comprehension of what can now be remotely seen.
The Handbook is divided into four substantive parts which cover (i) the broader issues of understanding surveillance; (ii) surveillance as sorting, (iii) the variable contexts of surveillance and (iv) the question of how we should limit surveillance: each part coming with an invaluable introduction to core concepts and background material.
The first section has a comprehensive overview of Surveillance Studies by the editors, Lyon, Haggerty and Ball, which provide key building blocks to understand surveillance covered by the introductory chapters. Contributions by Elmer, Bogart and Ceyhan take theories of surveillance beyond Foucault. Such theory is complemented in chapters by Koskela who examines the problematic of surveillance and gender, Steve Wright, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
 

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With new case studies, a full new chapter on Green Criminology, and a brand-new companion website, this is the essential introductory textbook to the field of criminology!

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Having just published Secure Recovery in June, this groundbreaking new series will double up with Managing Clinical Risk at the beginning of August!  You can check out all the published and forthcoming titles in the series below:

The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime.

This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature.

The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.

In this book, for the first time, the 'question of technology' and its relation to criminal justice is approached as a whole. Technology, Crime and Justice analyzes a range of technologies, (including information, communications, nuclear, biological, transport and weapons technologies, amongst many others) in order to pose three interrelated questions about their affects upon criminal justice and criminal opportunity:

◦to what extent can they really be said to provide new criminal opportunity or to enhance existing ones?

◦what are the key characteristics of the ways in which such technologies have been regulated?

◦how does technology itself serve as a regulatory force – both in crime control and social control more widely?
 

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Police Practice and Research is a series of books based on special issues of the pioneering peer-reviewed journal Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, which presents current and innovative police research as well as operational and administrative practices from around the world. It seeks to bridge the gap in knowledge that exists regarding who the police are, what they do, and how they maintain order, administer laws, and serve their communities. The journal is published in association with the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), which brings police researchers and practitioners together to facilitate cross-cultural, international and interdisciplinary exchanges for the enrichment of the policing profession.

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March 8th is International Women's Day, and we've made several book chapters and journal articles available to read online for free!  For the full list of articles, click here. 
These are the chapters we've made available:

Confronting Global Gender Justice:
Part IV: Crossing Legal Landscapes (Chapts 13-17)

The Languages of Sexuality:
All 'S' Entries

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies:
Chapt 1: Gender-Class Equality Over Time
Chapt 8: Sustainable Policy for Greater Equality

Working with Women Offenders in the Community:
Chapts 12-14 on Networks and Mentoring for Female Offenders

These chapters and the journal articles will be available until the 31st of May.
 

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