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  • Street Gang Patterns and Policies

    by Malcolm W. Klein, Cheryl L. Maxson ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Gang Cop

    The Words and Ways of Officer Paco Domingo

    by Malcolm W. Klein ...
    Series series Violence Prevention and Policy
    Paco Domingo is a street cop, a gang cop, a composite figure derived from criminologist Malcolm Klein's real observations, actual incidents, and verbatim court testimony in over 40 years of police and gang research. Klein, well-known criminologist and police consultant, tells the story of Domingo, who is deeply engaged in battling his street gang opponents. The author points to the dangers in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Studying Youth Gangs

    by James F. Short Jr., Brendan D. Dooley, Mark S. Fleisher, John M. Hagedorn, Gina Penly Hall, David S. Kirk, Malcolm W. Klein, Stephen E. Lankenau, Alan J. Lizotte0, David E. Olson1, Andrew V. Papachristos2, Bill Sanders3, Pete Simi4, RolandoVillarreal Sosa5, Irving A. Spergel6, Mercer L. Sullivan7, Terence P. Thornberry8, Kwai Ming Wa9, Robert White0 ...
    Series series Violence Prevention and Policy
    In this absorbing new collection, Short and Hughes and their distinguished coauthors investigate why and how we study youth gangs. Over the last half-century of research by criminologists, sociologists, and gang experts, investigations of gang behavior have become increasingly specialized and isolated from studies of delinquency and deviance. The authors challenge popular and inaccurate ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • The American Street Gang

    Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control

    by Malcolm W. Klein ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    When the Soviet Union collapsed, the White House announced with great fanfare that 100 FBI counterintelligence agents would be reassigned. Their new target: street gangs. Americans--filled with fear of crack-dealing gangs--cheered the decision, as did many big-city police departments. But this highly publicized move could be an experience in futility, suggests Malcolm Klein: for one thing, most ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups

    by Francesca Angelini, Paul Bradshaw, Yngve Carlsson, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Mark S. Fleisher, Uberto Gatti, Hans-Juergen Kerner, Malcolm W. Klein, Inger-Lise Lien, Gilberto Marengo, Natalia Melchiorre, Kerstin Reich, Alexander Salagaev, Marcello Sasso, Alexander Shashkin, Irina Sherbakova, Elias Touryanskiy, Frank van Gemert, Elmar G. M. Weitekamp ...
    Series series Violence Prevention and Policy
    Although a well-known phenomenon in the U.S., street gangs and other violent and criminal groups_including racist groups_exist also in European cities and countries, and are of increasing concern in global law enforcement. The eminent contributors to this volume present valuable new data on European youth gangs, describing important characteristics of these groups, and their similarities and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    In her latest book, sociologist Diane Crocker challenges the popular perception that crime in Canada is on the rise and argues that public opinion is becoming a bigger barrier to achieving justice than the actual extent of crime. Using the most current data available, her research reveals how we can better assess the effectiveness of crime control policies, as well as our own responses to crime, ... Read more

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  • Criminology

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    by Tim Newburn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisingly, crime has been pushed high up the public policy agenda across the world. But how can we measure crime, or evaluate the effectiveness of preventative measures? Does the threat of prison reduce someone's likelihood of reoffending, or would ... Read more

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  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Responding to Youth Crime in Canada

    by Carla Cesaroni, Anthony N. Doob ...
    In Responding to Youth Crime in Canada, Anthony Doob and Carla Cesaroni describe how Canada has been responding to youth crime in the context of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which came into force on April 1, 2003. The authors describe what is known about Canadian youth crime, and the operation of the youth justice system in the context of the changes in the law that are taking place.The authors ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity

    Edited by Frank van Gemert, Dana Peterson, Inger-Lise Lien ...
    This book is the third publication from the Eurogang Network, a cross-national collaboration of researchers (from both North America and Europe) devoted to comparative and multi-national research on youth gangs. It provides a unique insight into the influence of migration on local gang formation and development, paying particular attention to the importance of ethnicity. The book also explores the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Defences of the Weak (Routledge Revivals)

    A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution

    by Thomas Mathiesen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The author spent two years in the institution, observing and interviewing inmates and staff, the target being to learn the extent to which American prisons fit with prison life in a different culture. He gives a fascinating answer to the question: Norwegian prisons were, at the time of the study, miles away from their American ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Anomie, Strain and Subcultural Theories of Crime

    by Joanne M. Kaufman ...
    Series series The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology
    Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of society to regulate adequately the behavior of individuals, particularly the efforts of individuals to achieve monetary success. Strain theories focus on the impact of strains or stressors on crime, including the inability to achieve monetary success through ... Read more

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