Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime.
In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family. The book provides criminology students with an understanding of key social policy issues, and introduces criminological theory to social policy students. It is designed to cover the core...
Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime.
Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime.
In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family. The book provides criminology students with an understanding of key social policy issues, and introduces criminological theory to social policy students. It is designed to cover the core...
Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime.
Crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice have transformed the response to crime in recent years. Each has had a significant impact on policy, introducing new concepts and reassessing traditional aims and priorities. While such efforts attract a great deal of criminological interest, they tend to be discussed within separate and discrete literatures, rather than as part of a cohesive and concerted effort. Urban Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Restorative Justice: Effects of Social Technologies examines these emerging trends which are increasingly being...
Crime prevention, surveillance, and restorative justice have transformed the response to crime in recent years. Each has had a significant impact o...
In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged. Exploring enduring topics such as conceptions of victimhood, secondary and hidden victimization, and social services for victims along with more recent issues, the International Handbook of Victimology provides an interdisciplinary study of the topic from a diverse range of professionals on the cutting edge of victimology research.
Forty experts...
In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continu...
A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminologycompletes an esteemed trilogy of comparative analyses and insight from worldwide experts. Exploring a phenomenon that penetrates cultures of all racial, ethnic, and social classes, this volume continues in the tradition of its predecessors in the series by updating research on longstanding issues and offering perspectives into new problems and trends.
Topics in this volume include:
the etiology of crime
historical antecedents of contemporary...
A substantive guide to state of the art research and theory, the International Handbook of Criminologycompletes an esteemed...
We live in the age of international crime but whendid it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914), exploring issues such as'world-shrinking' changes in transportation, communication and commerce, and concerns about alien criminality, white slave trading and anarchist outrages."
We live in the age of international crime but whendid it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914), ex...
Between 1919 and 1939, crime received a prominent place on the international public agenda. This book explores the blueprint for twenty-first century international crime prevention - The League of Nations approach - which established institutions for confronting dangerous drugs, traffic in women and terrorist violence.
Between 1919 and 1939, crime received a prominent place on the international public agenda. This book explores the blueprint for twenty-first century ...
The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant conduct in the human sciences. This handbook brings together essays by leading Lombroso scholars and is divided into four main parts, each focusing on a major theme.
The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant con...
