Handbook of restorative justice

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative account and analysis of restorative justice, one of the most rapidly growing phenomena in the field of criminology and justice studies. In the last decade it has become a central topic in debates about the future of criminal ...

Youth justice

ideas, policy, practice

This is a thoroughly revised edition of Roger Smith's book published in 2003. The book provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the youth justice system. It begins by setting the youth justice system in historical context, and then assesses the impact of political ...

Handbook of probation

This handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up to date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service - an essential text for anybody working in probation, studying the subject as part of wider criminology or criminal justice course ...

Handbook of criminal investigation

This book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative book yet published on the subject of criminal investigation, a rapidly developing area within the police and other law enforcement agencies, and an important sub discipline within police studies. The subject is rarely out of the headlines ...

Criminal enterprise

individuals, organisations and criminal responsibility

This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability, considering the respective roles of individuals and organisations and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different kinds of actor. The issue of criminal responsibility, which is informed by both the sociological analysis ...

Handbook on prisions

This is the most comprehensive and ambitious book on prisons to have been published, a key text for anybody studying the subject and an essential work of reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It is especially timely ...

Human trafficking

"Human Trafficking" provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade. It addresses the subject within the broader context of global crime and the internationalisation of crime control. The book takes a broadly discursive approach and draws on historical, comparative as well as ...

Criminology

This is a comprehensive introduction to criminology for students who are either new or relatively new to the subject. This text provides the basis of study for the new undergraduate student of criminology and those who need a foundation knowledge of criminology in other relevant ...

Dictionary of probation and offender management

Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized. Probation officers are typically described now as offender managers, and the creation of NOMS (National Offender Management Service) has broadened the remit of the Probation Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on ...

Criminal justice

an introduction to crime and the criminal justice system

This book provides a comprehensive, up to date and detailed introduction to the criminal justice system for students and practitioners needing to know about this. It assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white collar and corporate crime), provides a detailed ...

Murder

social and historical approaches to understanding murder and murderers

This books seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions ...

Prision readings

a critical introduction to prisions and imprisionment

Prison Readings provides a comprehensive, critical introduction to the main debates and dilemmas associated with prisons and imprisonment, bringing together a selection of the key readings on the subject, along with a comprehensive introduction and commentary written by the editors. It will be essential reading ...

Situational prevention of sexual offenses against children

The papers in this volume highlight the small but growing body of research demonstrating that child sex offending is strongly influenced by opportunities to offend, and that analyzing the environmental contexts of offending may offer new insights into preventing the behavior. The chapter topics include ...

Fraud

Fraud remains one of the most important crimes and causes billions of pounds of losses each year, many thousands of people are employed to try to prevent it, but it has remained largely neglected in the literature. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the main ...

Adolescent crime

individual differences and lifestyles

This book examines young people's involvement in crime (including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and car crime) as both victims and offenders. Although adolescence is the time when involvement in crime peaks, few previous UK-based studies have attempted to provide a methodical and ...

Crime online

This book provides a highly authoritative account and analysis of key issues within the rapidly burgeoning field of cybercrime. Drawing upon a range of internationally known experts in the fields, and representing a variety of different disciplines, "Crime Online" focuses on different constructions and manifestations ...

Young people and offending

education, youth justice and social inclusion

The relationship between education and youth crime has long been recognised in terms of social policy and public opinion, but the full extent of this and its implications have been largely neglected and unexplored: educationalists on the one hand and criminologists on the other have ...

Managing persistent and serious offenders in the Community

intensive community programmes in theory and practice

Over the last few years intensive community programmes for both young and adult offenders, already firmly established in the United States, have become an important component of penal policy in the UK and elsewhere. While expectations of these programmes are high, evidence regarding their effectiveness ...

Comparative criminal justice

This work aims to meet the need for an accessible introductory text on comparative criminal justice, examining the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages and elements in the criminal justice process, from policing through to sentencing. Examples are taken from all ...

What matters in probation

The What Works initiative is having a profound impact on the work of the National Probation Service, and much has been invested in new accredited programmes - both in terms of the numbers of offenders planned to complete these programmes and their anticipated impact upon offending ...

Dot.cons

Crime, deviance and identity on the Internet

Policing, surveillance and social control

CCTV an police monitoring of suspects.