Safeguarding should be a central concern for any sports organisation working with children or young people. This significant new study examines the development, implementation and impact of the International Safeguards for Children in Sport; a set of guidelines drawn up by a working group of…
Hardback – 2018-01-09
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Despite a shared focus on crime and its ‘extended family’, forensic scientists and criminologists tend to work in isolation rather than sharing the data, methods and knowledge that will broaden the understanding of the criminal phenomenon and its related subjects. Bringing together perspectives…
Hardback – 2017-12-12
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Routledge International Handbooks
The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk. This is timely as fear of crime…
Hardback – 2017-11-30
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Routledge International Handbooks
Originally published in 1991, The Case for the Prosecution examines the entire process of arrest through to conviction.…
Hardback – 2017-11-30
Routledge
Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines how places enhance our understanding of crime and its control in a new light. While there has been much work in this area that has a policy focus, few have examined the underlying theories that inform this work. Theory has played a secondary role in…
Hardback – 2017-11-27
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Advances in Criminological Theory
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police–community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor people of…
Hardback – 2017-10-18
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Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
The Anthropocene signals a new age in Earth’s history, a human age, where we are revealed as a powerful force shaping planetary systems. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? This book seeks to contribute to…
Hardback – 2017-10-09
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Criminology at the Edge
This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among friendship networks in London, in the mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the organizational features of drugs purchasing and selling and differentiates…
Paperback – 2017-09-30
Willan
The rational choice perspective (RCP) is currently the core theoretical approach underpinning situational crime prevention (SCP). To date, many crimes have been studied through the lens of RCP, which increased our understanding of these phenomena, how they are committed and how they could…
Hardback – 2017-09-28
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Criminology at the Edge
The second volume of Sex Trafficking: International context and response Human trafficking and modern slavery have captured the imagination and attention of the international community. This book builds on the authors’ first volume, Sex Trafficking: International context and response. Much has…
Hardback – 2017-09-13
Routledge
Presenting both historical and contemporary discussions and coverage, this book provides an in-depth and critical analysis of police brutality and the killing of unarmed black males in the United States of America. Within the book, contributors cover five key areas: the historical context and…
Hardback – 2017-08-23
Routledge
This book offers a clear, up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically informed introduction to criminal psychology, exploring how psychological explanations and approaches can be integrated with other perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, neurobiology, sociology, and criminology. Drawing…
Paperback – 2017-08-21
Routledge