Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

ISBN-13: 9780415627979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012

Gerben Bruinsma; Henk Elffers; Jan De Keijser

Opis

This volume brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Challenges for criminological and criminal justice research  2. Criminology and criminal justice in Europe, Michael Tonry  Part 2: Punishment and Criminal Justice  3. Risk assessment and criminal law: closing the gap between criminal law and criminology  4. Actuarial justice and the modern state  5. Punishment, retribution and communication  6. Of crimes and punishment  7. The weakest link: human rights and the criminal offender in modern democratic government  8. European trends and transatlantic inspiration: youth offending and juvenile justice  9. Reflections on the relationship between transnational policing and organized crime  Part 3: Location and Mobility  10. The emergence of crime places in crime prevention  11. The journey to crime  12. Decision models underlying the journey to crime  13. Transnational organized crime: new directions for empirical research and public policy  Part 4: Perpetrators and Criminal Careers  14. Analysis of criminal careers  15. The development of aggression: causes and trajectories  16. A semi-parametric, group-based approach for analysing trajectories of development: a non-technical overview  17. Peers, crime and the life course  18. The changing role of delinquent peers in childhood and adolescence: issues, findings and puzzles