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By Benjamin Goold, Lucia Zedner
November 28, 2006
The pursuit of security is now central to the development of public policy and a driving force behind the spread of private policing. Just as new theoretical frameworks are needed to deal with the increasing tendency of crime control policies to focus on risk reduction, new forms of governance are ...
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By Nigel South, Piers Beirne
August 22, 2006
In little more than a decade, Green Criminology has become an established new perspective in the field. It embraces an exciting and wide range of topics, from controversies about genetic modification through corporate offending against the environment and human communities, to animal abuse. Green ...
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By Richard Rosenfeld
June 28, 2006
This volume presents recent theoretical arguments and empirical research on the relationship between crime and the structure of communities and whole societies. Focusing on the ’institutional-anomie’ perspective and allied crime theories, the selections examine the impact on crime of the family, ...
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By Dana M. Britton
December 28, 2005
Prison is unquestionably one of the most sex-segregated of all social institutions. From the first incarnations of the carceral project more than two centuries ago, reformers and penologists earnestly turned their attention to the construction of 'Christian gentlemen' and 'respectable ladies'. ...
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By David Weisburd, Shawn Bushway
August 28, 2005
This informative reference volume features the key papers in the growing field of quantitative criminology. The papers provide examples of the importation of statistical methods from other fields to criminology, the adaptation of such methods to special criminological problems through introspection...