Criminology & Criminal Justice: Products

Edited by Tina L. Freiburger, Catherine D. Marcum

Women in the Criminal Justice System: Tracking the Journey of Females and Crime provides a rare up-to-date examination of women both as offenders and employees in the criminal justice system. While the crime rate in the United States is currently decreasing, the rate of female incarceration is…

Paperback – 2019-10-31
Routledge

By Alison Pedlar, Susan Arai, Felice Yuen, Darla Fortune

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time…

Paperback – 2019-10-31
Routledge

By Mark Safarik, Katherine Ramsland

Spree Killers: Practical Classifications for Law Enforcement and Criminology 　is the only exhaustive, up-to-date analytical book on spree killers, standing apart from those dedicated to mass murderers and serial killers. Multicides have traditionally been categorized as double, triple, mass,…

Hardback – 2019-10-31
CRC Press

By Stephen Moston, Terry Engelberg

The book explores the changing landscape of anti-doping investigations, which now largely centre on the collection of intelligence about doping through processes such as surveillance, interviews with witnesses and interrogation of athletes. It examines why and how investigative processes, hitherto…

Paperback – 2019-10-30
Routledge

Edited by María José Gámez Fuentes, Sonia Núñez Puente, Emma Gómez Nicolau

This volume critically analyses political strategies, civil society initiatives and modes of representation that challenge the conventional narratives of women in contexts of violence. It deepens into the concepts of victimhood and agency that inform the current debate on women as victims. The…

Hardback – 2019-10-29
Routledge
Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

By Melissa L. Bone

This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues. The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and…

Hardback – 2019-10-28
Routledge

Edited by Rutger Leukfeldt, Thomas J. Holt

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal…

Hardback – 2019-10-28
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Edited by Anita Lavorgna, Anna Di Ronco

Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approaches developed outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due to the commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a fundamental role in the rise of false ‘health experts’, and in the…

Hardback – 2019-10-23
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Edited by Jack Tizard, Ian Sinclair, R. V. G. Clarke

First published in 1975, this book compiles a number of studies concerning institutional care and children, which address the question of why institutions that serve apparently similar functions differ so much. The book uses comparative methods such as measurement of different ‘dimensions’ of…

Paperback – 2019-10-21
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Kimberly D. Dodson

Current estimates indicate that approximately 2.2 million people are incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities across the United States. There are another 5 million under community correctional supervision. Many of these individuals fall into the classification of…

Paperback – 2019-10-18
Routledge

By Stina Bergman Blix, Åsa Wettergren

Professional Emotions in Court examines the paramount role of emotions in the legal professions and in the functioning of the democratic judicial system. Based on extensive interview and observation data in Sweden, the authors highlight the silenced background emotions and the tacitly habituated…

Paperback – 2019-10-18
Routledge

By Lila Kazemian

Although the negative consequences of rising incarceration rates have been well-established, criminological research has largely neglected to document psychological, social, and behavioral changes that occur during periods of incarceration. Drawing on an original longitudinal study of long-term…

Hardback – 2019-10-17
Routledge
International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation