Books in the Clarendon Studies in Criminology series

The night-time economy poses one of the biggest crime problems in Britain. This book highlights precisely how and why this threat developed at the time it did. It charts the rise of a 'night-time high street' and highlights the struggle that occurs over the way in which such nightlife areas develop.

The Prisoner Society offers an in-depth sociological analysis of prison life drawn from the life stories and experiences of prisoners and the testimony of officers, managers and prison governors at the UK prison HMP Wellingborough, a medium security prison.

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.

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 work analyses the history of international police cooperation from the middle of the 19th century until World War II. It is a detailed exploration of international cooperation strategies involving police institutions from the United States and Germany, as well as other European countries.

In the early 1990s policy changes were introduced in the UK in an attempt to increase arrest rates in domestic violence cases. This book examines the criminal justice response to this prevalent form of violence in the light of these changes. In particular, the book discusses the needs and expectations of victims, and how their choices impact on decisions made by police and prosecutors.

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.

Drawing on a five-year study of the impact of a restorative justice programme on victims of property and violent crime, Strang presents evidence to show that the restorative alternative of conferencing more often than court-based solutions has the capacity to satisfy victims' expectations of delivering restoration.

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 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.

Many countries have established restorative justice programmes, in which those affected by a crime attend meetings in the hope of achieving the ideals of reparation, reconciliation and reintegration. This book draws upon extensive fieldwork to explore the nature, function and effectiveness of the accountability within this kind of informal justice.

Part of the CLARENDON STUDIES IN CRIMINOLOGY series this account of the economic lives of women drug users in New York City reveals a group of women whose options have been reduced by drug use, poverty, racism, violence and marginality and describes how gender, race and class are articulated in the street-level drug economy.

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.

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?

An examination of international cooperation in tackling cross-border crimes such as terrorism, through a socio-legal lens. This qualitative study focuses on Australia and Indonesia, asking questions about the conditions that promote cooperation, and the structural tension between political and policy interests.

An analysis of the differences in clemency practice among the Southeast Asian jurisdictions in an inductive search for patterns that explain why some countries in the region make use of clemency far more often than do others.

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.

An analysis of findings from a comprehensive observational study of police community support officers (PCSOs), examining the distinct culture of PCSOs, what relationships between PCSOs and police officers are like within a rapidly diversifying organisation, and how this develops the policing pluralisation discourse.

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.

A critical reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda, drawing on empirical evidence to add to a major theme of police research: the theorizations of police legitimacy.

Using extensive archival research, Getting Out explores the complex nature of criminal justice administration, the strong path-dependent effects of public policy choices, and the critical role of uneven power differentials in the development of early release policy and practice between 1960 and 1995.

Sentencing Policy and Social Justice argues that the promotion of social justice should become a key objective of sentencing policy, advancing the argument that the legitimacy of sentencing ultimately depends upon the strength of the relationship between social morality and penal ideology.

A unique theoretical and empirical examination of women's embodied experience of imprisonment in England. The author examines how women's experience of prison can be understood through a sociological focus on the interaction between body and emotion.

The book is a work of criminal justice history that speaks to the emergence of a more humane Irish state - a close examination of the decision to grant clemency to those sentenced to death between 1923 and 1990, addressing important issues of law and penology that are of continuing relevance for countries that use capital punishment.

Uses innovative digital methods to track the life course of 500 Victorian children living within, or at the margins of, the early English juvenile reformatory system, offering rich interdisciplinary insights into how far the efforts of these institutions were successful, and their long-term, practical impact.

Based on extended access to a major crime review team, this book provides the first ethnographic account of a UK major crime review team, providing a comprehensive, conceptual account of cold case reviews that are not currently available from an academic criminological perspective.

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.

Explores the rise of extra-legal protection organizations in contemporary China, contributing to the understanding of organized crime and corruption in the Chinese context. It examines two types of extra-legal protectors: Black Mafia (street gangsters) and Red Mafia (corrupt public officers), and their impact on Chinese society.

A comparative approach to the history of criminology and penology between 1870s and 1930s, charting the history of the influence of criminological ideas on criminal law systems and sentencing methods and providing an interpretation of the divide between American and European penologies.

Tells the story of how and why Neighbourhood Policing was originally developed, the ways it has been implemented across different communities and in respect of different crime problems, and what its future prospects are likely to be.