1st Edition

International Handbook of Criminology

Edited By Shlomo Giora Shoham, Paul Knepper, Martin Kett Copyright 2010
726 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

726 Pages
by Routledge

A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminology completes an esteemed trilogy of comparative analyses and insight from worldwide experts. Exploring a phenomenon that penetrates cultures of all racial, ethnic, and social classes, this volume continues in the tradition of its predecessors in the series by updating research on longstanding... Read more

Theoretical and Historical Frameworks

Crime Science; K. Pease

Born for Evil? Biological Theories of Crime in Historical Perspective; N. Davie

Life Course Criminology; A. A. J. Blokland and P. Nieuwbeerta

Making Sense of Criminal Justice; D. Nelken

Methods of Inquiry

The Politics of Numbers: Crime Statistics as a Source of Knowledge and a Tool of Governance; H. M. Lomell

The Subculture Concept: A Genealogy; A. Bell

Anthropologies of Domestic Violence: Studying Crime in Situ; M. Adelman

Methodological Issues in the Comparison of Police-Recorded Crime Rates; M. F. Aebi

Crime and Criminality

Transnational Environmental Harm and Eco-Global Criminology; R. White

Perpetrators and Victims of Sex Crimes; J. Obergfell-Fuchs

Financial Crimes in Comparative Context; M. Levi

Studying Criminality and Criminal Offenders in the Early Twentieth-Century Philippines; F. C. Gutierrez

Response to Crime

Affluence, Disadvantage, and Fear of Crime; M. Lee

Closed-Circuit Television: A Review of Its Development and Its Implications for Privacy; C. Norris

Crime and Social Policy; C. Grover

Truth, Reality, Justice, and the Crime Genre: Implications for Criminological Inquiry and Pedagogy; G. Cavender and N. C. Jurik

The Police Response to Crime; M. O’Neill

The European Experience of Crime Prevention; R. Selmini

Crime, Victims, and Social Divisions

Class, Inequality, and the Etiology of Crime; J. Savolainen

Youth Gangs in a Global Context; J. Medina Ariza

Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice Process: Normative Dilemmas and Practical Responses; E. Erez and J. V. Roberts

Spatial Analysis of Street Crimes; C. M. G. Monteiro

Understanding Repeat Victimization: A Longitudinal Study; A. E. Bottoms and A. Costello

Conclusion; S. G. Shoham and P. Knepper

Biography

Shlomo G. Shoham is Professor of Law and an interdisciplinary lecturer at Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and is a world-renowned criminologist who has published more than 100 books and about 1,000 articles on crime, deviance, philosophy, religion, psychology, and the human personality. Over the years, he has developed his innovative personality theory, a highly appraised new theory of personality development. In 2003, Professor Shoham was awarded the Israel Prize for research in criminology. Previously, he was awarded the Sellin-Glueck Award, the highest prize in American criminology, and recently the prestigious Emet Prize. He is the recipient of a decoration from the prime minister of France. Professor Shoham has lectured all over the world and has been a resident at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne. Paul Knepper is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffi eld, and Visiting Professor, Institute of Criminology, University of Malta. His research has explored sociopolitical definitions of race, conceptual foundations of crime prevention, and historical origins of contemporary responses to crime. Martin Kett is a self-employed technical writer and translator. He received a BSc in mathematics and statistics from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

 

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