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  • Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy

    Towards a Social Democratic Criminology

    by Robert Reiner ...
    Series series Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology
    Robert Reiner has been one of the pioneers in the development of research on policing since the 1970s as well as a prolific writer on mass media and popular culture representations of crime and criminal justice. His work includes the renowned books The Politics of the Police and Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control, an analysis of the neo-liberal transformation of crime ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Crime, The Mystery of the Common-Sense Concept

    by Robert Reiner ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Crime is a source of endless fascination and fear. Yet behind the apparent consensus that crime must be fought, there is considerable conflict about what should or should not be treated as criminal, and even the most shocking crimes can inspire divisive debate.This concise book explores the seemingly simple, common-sense concept of crime revealing the huge complexities, ambiguities and tensions ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Social Democratic Criminology

    by Robert Reiner ...
    Series series New Directions in Critical Criminology
    This book argues that ‘social democratic criminology’ is an important critical perspective which is essential for the analysis of crime and criminal justice and crucial for humane and effective policy. The end of World War II resulted in 30 years of strategies to create a more peaceful international order. In domestic policy, all Western countries followed agendas informed by a social democratic ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Law and Order

    An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control

    by Robert Reiner ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly. After decades of explosive increase in crime rates, these have plummeted throughout the Western world in the 1990s. Yet fear ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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  • Gender and Crime

    A Human Rights Approach

    by Marisa Silvestri, Chris Crowther-Dowey ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human rights framework.Integrating empirical, theoretical and policy-related material, this Second Editionhas been significantly updated, and now includes;Full consideration of the 2010-2015 Coalition Government and its effect on gender and crime within England ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Thinking About Criminology

    Edited by Simon Holdaway, Paul Rock ...
    First published in 1998. Thinking about criminology draws together the expertise of respected criminologists from the principle contemporary schools of thought. The book aims to provide a clear analysis of the relationship between sociological theory and contemporary empirical criminological research, discussing the ways in which theoretical perspectives have contributed to the understanding of ... Read more

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  • International Criminology

    A Critical Introduction

    by Rob Watts, Judith Bessant, Richard Hil ...
    International Criminology is an easy-access critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the international arena think about and research crime. By using examples from the US, UK and Australia, the authors outline key ideas, vocabulary, assumptions and findings of the discipline while opening up a set of critical underlying issues and problems.From theoretical traditions to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Changing Family Values

    Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order

    Edited by Gill Jagger, Caroline Wright ...
    Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Policing

    Politics, Culture and Control

    Edited by Tim Newburn, Professor Jill Peay ...
    Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study of police history, culture, organisation, elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Criminology

    Theory and context

    by John Tierney, Maggie O’Neill ...
    Criminology: theory and context, third edition, expands upon the ideas presented in previous editions, while introducing new material on critical theory, feminism, masculinities, cultural criminology and postmodernism. The text has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect key perspectives in contemporary criminological theory. Relevant updates include discussions on New Labour’s criminal ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • When Children Kill Children

    Penal Populism and Political Culture

    by David A. Green ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide. Green explores the reasons underlying the vastly differing responses of the English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to the cases of James Bulger and Silje Redergard respectively. Whereas James Bulger's killers were subject to extreme press and public ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Comparative Criminal Justice

    Making Sense of Difference

    by David Nelken ...
    Series series Compact Criminology
    David Nelken is the 2013 laureate of the Association for Law and Society International PrizeThe increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original and insightful perspective by David Nelken, one of the top scholars in the field. The author looks at why we should study crime and criminal justice in a comparative and international context, and the difficulties ... Read more

    $56.69 USD