Books in the Clarendon Studies in Criminology series

Professor Holdaway takes a sociological and theoretical approach to analyse the new phenomenon of Black Police Associations established in the majority of constabularies in England and Wales, describing and analysing how race and ethnicity are constructed and sustained within constabularies and how they have changed during the last two decades.

Using the IRA as a case-study, the book offers a systematic, in-depth, analysis of the effects of the underground response to informers, providing an empirical and theoretical account of the causes, forms, and functions. The book aims to expand the study of punishment and society and demonstrate its utility to the understanding of non-state actors.

Presenting the results of an 18 month empirical study examining the use of restorative justice for hate crime in the United Kingdom, this book draws together theory and practice to analyse the causes and consequences of hate crime victimisation.

This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.

Through an innovative and engaging analysis of an often misunderstood cohort of organised crime in Georgia, this book explores the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organized crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organizations can occur.

This book offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force. Through direct observation of operational policing and interviews, the author assesses the impact of three decades of social, economic and political change on police culture.

Examines the focus on crime and criminal justice in British drugs policy, from why it happened at all to what led policy to unfold in the way that it did. Includes analysis of crucial policy documents and over 200 interviews with key players in the policy development and implementation process.

An in depth sociological, historical and personal analysis of the concept and reality of organised crime in the UK. With interviews from thieves, dealers and criminal entrepreneurs, the book explores the flexible nature of the criminal market, the constructed nature of the notion of organised crime, and the normalisation of criminality.

This book is a Festschrift in honour of Paul Rock, former Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. The edited volume examines and builds on the central themes associated with Professor Rock's work - social and criminological theory, policy development and policy-making, and victims and victimology.

Drawing on four years of varied ethnographic fieldwork in Langview, a deindustrialised working-class community in Glasgow, this book tells a unique and powerful story of young people, gang identity, and social change, challenging perceptions of gangs as a novel, universal, or pathological phenomenon.

Serious Offenders examines the criminal careers of persistent offenders in northwest England between the 1840s and 1940s. It explores the triggers that propelled minor offenders towards serious persistent offending and draws on the lessons to be learnt about the regulation and surveillance of serious offenders.

CCTV and Policing considers how the introduction of closed circuit television (CCTV) has affected policing practices in Britain. Based on original field research, the volume examines the various factors that have shaped police CCTV use, and challenges claims that the spread of public area CCTV is indicative of a movement towards increasingly authoritarian forms of policing.

The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem, affecting a significant number of people. In this book, the authors review the findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime and propose a new model, separating those who only 'expressively' fear crime from those who have actual experience of worrying about it.

This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the emotive subject of child-on-child homicide, comparing the differing responses of English and Norwegian criminal justice systems to two high profile cases: those of the killers of James Bulger and Silke Redergard respectively.

This book examines the histories of crime, and uses historical data to analyse modern criminological debates. Drawing on criminology, history, and social policy this book addresses a number of important issues about offenders' persistence in crime, and questions the current theoretical framework used to explain offending patterns.

Examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. Employing quantitative techniques to offenders with high rates of recidivism, this work demonstrates that many of these apparently hardened criminals will 'grow out' of crime by the time they reach their early to mid- 20s.

This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.

Features an attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation and extensive interviews, this book charts the emergence of bouncers as one of the graphic symbols in the iconography of post industrial Britain.

This book constitutes a critical case study of the modern search for public sector reform. It includes a detailed account of a study aimed at developing a meaningful way of evaluating difficult-to-measure moral dimensions of the quality of prisons. The author calls for greater clarity and increased attention to these important aspects of organizational life.

This book contains the first major survey of the private security industry in Britain. The authors scrutinize the operation of private security and its relationship with the police force - providing a detailed analysis of the concepts of 'public' and 'private', using examples drawn from both local and national studies.

This book presents a sociological account of the relationship between policing and cultural change in England since 1945. It revises the established view that the once revered English police have been 'demystified' in this period. The authors provide a re-assessment of the symbolic and political significance of policing within contemporary culture.

This book contends that the police have become information brokers to institutions such as insurance companies and health and welfare organisations that operate based on knowledge of risk. In turn, these institutions influence the ways that police officers think and act. The authors examine different aspects of police involvement.

This work examines the character of social life within two maximum-security prisons. By systematic comparison of the two prisons, it compares the institutional structures and strategies they deploy for control of inmates. The material is set within the framework of a broader, social theory context.

This book seeks to explore a previously neglected aspect of crime in modern society - namely those crimes committed by otherwise 'respectable' citizens in the market arena. It outlines the contours of the contemporary moral economy, and asks, is a 'predatory society' emerging from the central sphere of consumption?

The first authoritative history of kidnapping based on extensive qualitative research of gangs and policing, as well as an analysis of the effect the crime has on how communities experience the city, and the strategies put in place by potential victims to avoid the threat of kidnapping.

Offers the first sustained examination of the role and value of respect in policing and imprisonment in England and Wales, where the value is elusive but of persisting significance, and is a challenging corrective to current scholarship which has neglected the significance of respect for those we seek to police and punish.

Provides a rare glimpse of life inside British prisons, where non-citizens are increasingly segregated from the rest of the penal population. Using first-hand testimonies from prisoners, prison staff, and high-level policy makers, it describes how a national scandal led to policies that have transformed prisons into sites for border control.

Analyses the cultural meaning and social dynamics of international criminal justice by exploring the role of human rights organizations in this sphere after the creation of the International Criminal Court. The book offers an analysis of punishment 'gone global', and how it is constituted by and of global relations of power.

Starting with penal populism, this book examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.

Navigating financial crashes of the Late Middle Ages up to the present day and analysing them through the lenses of classical, positivist, functionalist and Marxist criminology, this book explores the growth of grey areas in the financial world and our understanding, or misunderstanding, of financial delinquency.