Criminology & Criminal Justice: Products

By Katie Benson

The role played by legal professionals in the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by others has become a priority concern for authorities at a national and international level. This ground-breaking book presents an in-depth empirical analysis of the nature of lawyers’ involvement in the…

Hardback – 2020-05-01 
Routledge
The Law of Financial Crime

By Karine Cote-Boucher

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border policing agency. Border…

Hardback – 2020-04-15 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

By Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil. This book contributes to the emerging field of southern criminology by engaging with the perils faced by people…

Hardback – 2020-04-14 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South

Edited by Juan Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Joanna Nicholson

This volume considers a variety of key issues pertaining to the rights of defendants and victims at International Criminal Courts (ICTs) and explores how best to balance and enhance the rights of both in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of international criminal proceedings. The…

Hardback – 2020-04-14 
Routledge

Edited by David Churchill, Dolores Janiewski, Pieter Leloup

Based on extensive research in several international contexts, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of the historical evolution of private security and its fluid, contested, and mutually constitutive relationship with state agencies, public policing, and the criminal justice system. This…

Hardback – 2020-04-02 
Routledge
Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories

By Gillian Buck

Peer mentoring is an increasingly popular criminal justice intervention in custodial and community settings. Peer mentors are community members, often with lived experiences of criminal justice, who work or volunteer to help people in rehabilitative settings. Despite the growth of peer mentoring…

Hardback – 2020-03-26 
Routledge
International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

By Ferya Taş-Çifçi

Despite recent reforms to the Turkish Penal Code, the country retains a high level of honour-based violence. This book analyses the motives behind honour-based violence in Turkey and examines the criminal justice system’s approach to this type of crime. The work takes a socio-legal approach to…

Hardback – 2020-03-25 
Routledge

By Elisabeth Bunselmeyer

This book addresses the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms for repairing social cohesion. Truth commissions and reparation programs are implemented worldwide to enhance social cohesion, peace and democracy in post-conflict settings. Most claims about transitional justice measures are…

Hardback – 2020-03-13 
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Transitional Justice

Edited by Tore Bjørgo, Marie-Louise Damen

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? What is the impact of gender diversity and political orientation on a police students’ career aspirations and attitudes to policing? These are some of the questions addressed by this…

Hardback – 2020-03-11 
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Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

Edited by Benoit Leclerc, Jesse Cale

The Internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data are generated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences. This often refers to Big Data. This book explores Big Data in organisations operating in the criminology and criminal…

Hardback – 2020-03-10 
Routledge
Criminology at the Edge

Edited by Tom Decorte, Simon Lenton, Chris Wilkins

The book explores how we should evaluate the models of cannabis legalization as they have been implemented in several jurisdictions in the past few years; the specific models for future cannabis legalization that have been developed and how similar or different they are they from the models already…

Hardback – 2020-03-09 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Edited by Cecilia Chouhy, Joshua C. Cochran, Cheryl Lero Jonson

Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects undertakes a systematic study of theories of the criminal justice system, which historically have received very little attention from scholars. This is a glaring omission given the risk of mass imprisonment, the increasing presence of police in…

Hardback – 2020-03-05 
Routledge
Advances in Criminological Theory