Handbook on Crime

ISBN-13: 9781843923725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 984 str.

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The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime.

This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature.

The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.

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Introduction   Part 1: 'Conventional' Property Crime  Introduction  1. Domestic Burglary  2. Vehicle Crime  3. Shoplifting  4. Understanding and Tackling Stolen Goods Markets  Part 2: Fraud and Fakes  Introduction  5. Income Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud  6. Theft and Fraud by Employees  7. Fakes  8. Scams  9. Credit Fraud  10. Identity Theft and Fraud  11. Cybercrime  Part 3: Violent Crime  Introduction  12. Homicide  13. Domestic Violence  14. Street Robbery  15. Stealing Commercial Cash: From Safecracking to Armed Robbery  16. Youth Gang Crime  17. Violence in the Night-time Economy 18. Hate Crime  19. Stalking and Harassment  20. Arson  21. Blackmail, Kidnapping and Threats to Kill  22. Elder Abuse  23. School Bullying: Risk Factors, Theories and Interventions  24. Institutional Abuse and Children's Homes  25. Animal Abuse  Part 4: Sex-Related Crime  Introduction  26. Sexual Offences Against Adults  27. Sexual Offences Against Children  28. Sex Work Part 5: Drug-Related Crime Introduction  29. Drug- and Alcohol-related Crime  30. Drug Supply and Possession  31. Drug Trafficking  Part 6: Organised and Business Crime  Introduction  32. Corporate Financial Crimes  33. Middle Range Business Crime: Rogue and Respectable Businesses, Family Firms and Entrepreneurs  34. Human Trafficking  35. Money Laundering  36. Extortion  Part 7: State, Political and War Crimes Introduction  37. State Crime  38. Genocide and 'Ethnic Cleansing'  39. Torture  40. Crimes of the Global State  41. Political Protest and Crime  42. Terrorism  Part 8: Harms, Health and Safety Introduction, 43. Eco-crime and Air Pollution  44. Corporate Violence and Harm  45. Driving Offences