In the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Wootton was among the first to ask fundamental and challenging questions of criminology; about its structure as a discipline and its explanatory potential about crime. In the following decades, serious academic work on the relationship between gender, crime, and criminal victimization has continued to flourish. It has been particularly concerned to challenge the sex-based assumptions for female criminality, on the one hand, and the invisibility of...
In the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Woott...
Critical Criminology is now a well-established if heterogeneous and contentious field of study. The work of critical criminologists supports numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. As the field continues to flourish as never before, this new title from Routledge, edited by two distinguished scholars, meets the need for an authoritative, one-stop reference work to make sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed Critical Criminology.
In four volumes, the collection assembles the best and most...
Critical Criminology is now a well-established if heterogeneous and contentious field of study. The work of critical criminologists supports numero...
Serious research into the problematic and contested relationship between notions of race and crime continues to blossom. Indeed, the work of scholars in this cross-disciplinary field supports numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. Now, to make some sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed thinking in this area, Routledge announces a new title in its acclaimed Critical Concepts in Criminology series. Edited by a leading scholar with an international reputation, Race and Crime is a definitive, four-volume...
Serious research into the problematic and contested relationship between notions of race and crime continues to blossom. Indeed, the work of scholars ...
Green Criminology embraces a wide and rapidly growing network of researchers and scholars around the world who are actively engaged in the study of environmental crime and ecological justice. Transgressions against humans, eco-systems, and animals constitute the main focus of Green Criminology and this new four-volume collection from Routledge provides an authoritative, one-stop reference work to make sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed its development and growth. Themes covered in the collection include: the conceptual foundations of Green...
Green Criminology embraces a wide and rapidly growing network of researchers and scholars around the world who are actively engaged in the study of en...
A thorny question faced by all civilized societies is what to do when people commit crime, and, in particular, how criminals are to be punished. Yet the nature of punishment, its justifications, aims, and effects has varied markedly throughout history and across and within cultures. These matters continue to be vigorously debated and frequently give rise to sharp divisions along lines of morality, politics, faith, and effectiveness.
This vital new Routledge collection now brings together the major works on punishment, a central, important, and fascinating area of study, not just for the...
A thorny question faced by all civilized societies is what to do when people commit crime, and, in particular, how criminals are to be punished. Ye...
A variety of crime phenomena including, but by no means limited to, white-collar crime and corruption, environmental crime, and traditional organized crime vie for the attention of international policymakers and researchers. Crime-control responses differ across the globe and the editor of this new four-volume Routledge collection has assembled both enduring major works and cutting-edge scholarship to illuminate a variety of approaches to transnational and comparative criminology, and to bring to light the complex issues involved in understanding crime in a global context. With a newly...
A variety of crime phenomena including, but by no means limited to, white-collar crime and corruption, environmental crime, and traditional organiz...
Biosocial criminologists seek to explain crime (and related anti-social behaviour) by exploring both biological and environmental factors. Combining perspectives from mainstream Criminology and Sociology, with contributions from those working in disciplines such as Genetics, Neuropsychology, and Evolutionary Psychology, Biosocial Criminology is now a well-established if heterogeneous and contentious field of study. As Biosocial Criminology continues to develop, this new title from Routledge, edited by two distinguished scholars, meets the need for an authoritative, one-stop reference work...
Biosocial criminologists seek to explain crime (and related anti-social behaviour) by exploring both biological and environmental factors. Combinin...
Cultural Criminology is a theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach to the study of crime and deviance that places criminality and its control in the context of culture; that is, it views crime and the agencies and institutions of crime control as cultural products--as creative constructs. Cultural criminologists focus relentlessly on the continuous generation of meaning around interaction: rules created, rules broken, a constant interplay of moral entrepreneurship, political innovation, and transgression. Indeed, Cultural Criminology is now a well-established--if...
Cultural Criminology is a theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach to the study of crime and deviance that places criminality and ...
Described by the learned editor of this new Routledge collection as both a subfield and a fundamental approach to criminological inquiry, theoretical criminology is concerned with debates about foundational analytical concepts: what is crime? What is punishment? It also seeks to explain outcomes: what causes crime? What is the effect of punishment? What makes a criminal?
As theoretical criminology continues rapidly to develop, this new four-volume mini library meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the major works that have contributed to its growth. The...
Described by the learned editor of this new Routledge collection as both a subfield and a fundamental approach to criminological inquiry, theoretic...
Madness raises intriguing and complex criminological questions, not least the famous trio of triability, responsibility, and punishability . Furthermore, law-enforcement agencies frequently face a choice between invoking the criminal law or using mental-health remedies. And if and when sentences are passed, not all mentally disordered offenders receive treatment. That prompts a number of additional questions, such as: how effective are institutions to which these offenders are sent? And: do mentally disordered offenders differ qualitatively from the criminal population as a whole?
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Madness raises intriguing and complex criminological questions, not least the famous trio of triability, responsibility, and punishability . Furthe...
