Criminality and violence among the mentally disordered

The Stockholm Metropolitan Project

In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians and law makers - assessing and managing ...

Policing gangs in America

Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of the book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment in which they work. A discussion ...

What works in corrections

reducing the criminal activities of offenders and delinquents

What Works in Corrections examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies, treatment and rehabilitation programs on the recidivism of offenders and delinquents. The book reviews different strategies for reducing recidivism and describes how the evidence for effectiveness is assessed. Thousands of studies were examined ...

The criminal career

The danish longitudinal study

Gangs and delinquency in developmental perspective

Violent crime

assessing race and ethnic differences

Situational prison control

Crime prevention in correctional institutions

This book examines the control of problem behaviour in prison from a situational crime prevention perspective. Following the success of situational crime prevention in community setting, Richard Wortley argues that the same principles can be used to help reduce the levels of asault, rape, self-harm ...

Corporate crime, law, and social control

Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them to compliant status? In this book Sally Simpson examines whether the shift towards the use of criminal law, with its ...

Companions in crime

The social aspects of criminal conduct

Criminologists often allude to 'peer influence' in explanations of crime and delinquency, but the meaning of that concept rarely receives careful attention. Companions in Crime organizes the extensive literature on peer influence and group delinquency into a coherent form for the first time. Chapters focus ...

Delinquent networks

youth co-offending in Stockholm

This book presents a study of co-offending relations among youths under 21 suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991#1995. In total, the study includes just over 22,000 individuals suspected of around 29,000 offences. Jerzy Sarnecki employs the method of network analysis ...