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  • Youth and Crime
    John Muncie
    A newly updated and significantly expanded fifth edition of Youth and Crime. The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice available. ...
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    234,18 €

  • GIVE US MORE GUNS - How South Africa’s Gangs were Armed
    Mark Shaw
    The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called ’guns to gangs’ saga, in which state weapons are sold to South Africa’s criminal underworld.It began in 2007 when Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo and his cronies began selling thousands of decommissioned police weapons to gang lords. Prinsloo’s...
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    23,33 €

  • Global Perspectives on People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice
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    248,73 €

  • CARNAGE
    Thomas Gabor
    In his book CARNAGE, Thomas Gabor examines the 1,000+ mass shootings in America in 2019-2020, as well as trends in US mass shootings. CARNAGE explores the geography and demographics of mass shootings, weapons used, extent of defensive gun uses by victims, and the settings and circumstances of mass shootings.Gabor’s analysis shatters the myth that most mass shootings are random...
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    20,01 €

  • Connecting with Young People in Trouble
    Andi Brierley
    This powerful critique of youth justice based on lived experience, theory and practice looks at the topic through a refreshing new lens, suggesting that some existing ways of dealing with children and young people may do more harm than good. After making readers aware of Risk Relation Paradox, the author shows that positive outcomes cannot be imposed or directed but that they c...
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    48,37 €

  • The Ambiguities of Desistance
    David Honeywell
    This book explores the ongoing and individual desistance journeys of ex-offenders during re-integration into society. It introduces nuanced and rich data around the growing interest in desistance, examines the reasons why individuals move away from crime, and highlights the importance of Higher Education as a conduit for change and rehabilitation. ...
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    88,04 €

  • The Felon - Essays on Crime and the Criminal
    Various
    “The Felon” is a fantastic collection of classic essays on the subject of crime by a variety of authors including criminologists, doctors, criminal psychologists, social workers, and more. They cover a broad range of topics related to crime from the history of criminal law and dealing with crime, to understanding the criminal mind and beyond. Highly recommended for those with a...
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    24,36 €

  • Listening to the Movement
    Restorative justice is spreading like wildfire across the globe. How can we explain this burst of energy? This anthology makes the bold claim that restorative justice is a vibrant social justice movement. It is more than a great idea gone viral, more than the extension of the legal system, and more than enacting new legislation. Beginning in 2015, the contributors of this volum...
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    37,49 €

  • Listening to the Movement
    Restorative justice is spreading like wildfire across the globe. How can we explain this burst of energy? This anthology makes the bold claim that restorative justice is a vibrant social justice movement. It is more than a great idea gone viral, more than the extension of the legal system, and more than enacting new legislation. Beginning in 2015, the contributors of this volum...
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    25,01 €

  • The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development
    August John Hoffman / Michelle Filkins / Saul Alamilla
    Communities today face unprecedented racial tension, conflict, and turmoil. Social unrest, political rhetoric, authoritarian rulers, and economic disparities contribute to unprecedented levels of community violence and extremism. The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development: A Greener Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Conflict proposes a more comprehensi...
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    129,25 €

  • Sensory Penalities
    Sensory Penalties aims to reinvigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in empirical investigation. It explores the visceral, personal reflections buried within forgotten criminological field notes, to ask what privileging these sensorial experiences does for how we understand and research spaces of punishment and social control. ...
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    142,62 €

  • Examining Gun Regulations, Warning Behaviors, and Policies to Prevent Mass Shootings
    Selina E.M. Kerr / Selina E.MKerr
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    215,79 €

  • Making Sense of Homicide
    Adam Lynes / Elizabeth Yardley / Lucas Danos
    The first dedicated textbook for Criminology students studying homicide. As the authors explain, criminal homicide is but one form of lethal violence victims may suffer, leading them to describe a much broader range of scenarios. Ranging from murder to manslaughter to State killings, genocide and disasters involving victims of public policy, corporate crime or shortcomings in h...
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    64,02 €

  • Sisyphus No More
    Harvey McCloud / Roger C. Byrd / Roger CByrd
    Prisoners released from our bloated American correctional institutions return to a mostly unwelcoming society where they face onerous post-release challenges. No wonder recidivism is near fifty percent, adding tens of billions of dollars annually to the cost of American prisons. Sisyphus No More is a multifaceted argument for increasing prisoner education and training programs ...
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    115,51 €

  • Civilization and Barbarism
    Graeme R. Newman / Graeme RNewman
    Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative. ...
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    41,95 €

  • A Socio-Criminological Analysis of the HIV Epidemic
    Bruno Meini
    In the world of the 21st century, epidemics are common biological and social occurrences, with HIV perhaps emphasising this better than any other disease. Medical scientific research has undoubtedly made significant steps forward; meanwhile, the social research field is still in its initial stages, with many awaiting an equally auspicious response. A Socio-Criminological Analys...
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    48,43 €

  • Stop Trying to Fix Policing
    Tony Gaskew
    In Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of BlackLiberation, Tony Gaskew guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition,using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition. The author weaves an electrifyingcombination of critical race theory, spiritual inheritance, decolonization,self-determination, and armed resistance, into a critical ...
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    122,68 €

  • Sex and Crime
    Alexandra Fanghanel
    A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. ...
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    57,16 €

  • Sex and Crime
    Alexandra Fanghanel
    A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. ...
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    162,76 €

  • Stratified Policing
    Rachel Santos / Roberto Santos
    Implementing effective crime reduction requires deliberate thought and effort to integrate processes into the police organization, its culture, and the day-to-day work. Stratified Policing: An Organizational Model for Proactive Crime Reduction and Accountability provides police leaders a clear path for institutionalization of crime reduction modeled after current police process...
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    47,65 €

  • Gangsters and Other Statesmen
    Danilo Mandić
    How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatis...
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    163,49 €

  • Gangsters and Other Statesmen
    Danilo Mandić
    How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflictsSeparatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatis...
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    45,87 €

  • Policing and Public Trust
    Eccy de Jonge
    The treatment of victims and complainants by the police is examined in this pioneering new work. Case studies, based on interviews carried out at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, in the United Kingdom, reveal that victims and complainants are routinely discredited by police agencies. Whilst in the United States, victims may include anyone su...
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    129,13 €

  • Love as human virtue and human need and its role in the lives of long-term prisoners
    Christina Valeska Straub
    While the importance of love is rarely questioned, the effects of its presence and absence in certain environments often goes unnoticed. This book analyses the role of love in the lives of prisoners in a low security English prison. It seeks to provide a deeper insight into the meaning and role of love as a dual concept in the social-ecology of human existence, human developmen...
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    82,88 €

  • The Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation on a previously overlooked demographic, this book argues that women are disproportionately affected by a flawed policy approach. ...
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    45,41 €

  • For Abolition
    David Scott
    According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ’Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ Connecting the politics of abolition to wider emancipatory struggles for liberation and social justice, this book argues that penal abolitionism should be understood as an important public critical pedagogy and philosophy of hope that can help t...
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    47,92 €

  • The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods
    Abdul Rauf / Muhammad Zaman / Steffen Zdun
    This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakist...
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    74,30 €

  • Target Suitability and the Crime Drop
    G Farrell / John D Maguire / R Clarke
    This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson’s routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability,...
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    58,46 €

  • The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods
    Abdul Rauf / Muhammad Zaman / Steffen Zdun
    This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakist...
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    58,78 €

  • Chapter 5
    Graham Farrell / Nick Tilley / Ronald V Clarke
    This chapter is open access under a CC BY license. It is from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory, edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. The full volume provides a unique collection of essays in honour of the work of Marcus Felson and his notable contribution to routine activity theory, environmental criminology and the discipline more...
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    44,55 €


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