Books in the Clarendon Studies in Criminology series

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.

How have the findings of academic criminologists affected the development of public policy? This is the central question addressed by this collection of essays, which explore the complex relationship between research and policy making.

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.

This book reviews the literature on contemporary punishment and examines the approaches of four leading scholars to questions of penal change, analysing the relationship between their roles as scholars in an academic environment and as citizens in a political community.

This book gives a detailed analysis of official documents, and of the historical origins of racist violence. It uses the conclusions to analyse why the ideas and language of white supremacy and racial exclusion direct violence at 'non-white' individuals, and why the police response is so routinely ineffectual.

Constructing Victims' Rights is a detailed account, based on extensive observation, primary papers, and interviews, which follows the evolution of a set of government policies implemented by New Labour that culminated in 2003 in proposals for awarding near-rights to victims of crime.

This book is a collection of pathbreaking essays by the foremost criminologists currently working in the UK. It contains up-to-the-moment essays on New Labour and crime control, the changing face of the East End of London, developments in restorative justice, and current controversies over the legal justification for torture.

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.

For many repeat offenders, previous convictions have more impact on their penalty than the seriousness of their current crime. Why do we punish reoffense more harshly? Should offenders be punished only for crimes they commit and not for crimes committed and paid for in the past? How does this practice affect the views of offenders and the public?

Offers an insightful study of specialist detective units assigned to investigating drug offences, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken in two English police service areas, with in-depth analysis of the everyday realities of the 'war on drugs' and the underlying assumptions that operate beneath the presentational canopy of police organisations.

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.

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.

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 study demonstrates how community police officers go about such matters as gathering crime-relevant information from people in the local community, how they apply informal social control to public disorder situations, and how they use the police organization to obtain needed resources.

Based on interviews with prisoners and prison staff, this study of Grendon Prison, a 'model' prison, will be of interest to criminologists, penologists, and prison staff.

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.

Using original field data the book analyses how courts handle physical violence cases. It examines the questioning of defendants, witnesses and victims, how testimony and physical evidence is used, and what victims, witnesses, defendants, lawyers and judges think of the trial process. The book offers an accessible insight into the work of the courts and how society deals with violent crime.

International co-operation on criminal law enforcement has become an important policy issue for Europe. This study examines the major empirical and theoretical issues associated with this co-operation, including the harmonization of criminal law and criminal procedures.

This book examines the increasing appeals to, and actual involvement of, communities in the area of crime control. It charts and analyses the growing 'partnership' approach to crime prevention. In doing so, it draws upon two research projects conducted in England.

This book offers an analysis of paramilitary imprisonment in Northern Ireland, in particular the thirty-year struggle concerning the prisoners' assertion of their political status. Forms of prisoner resistance are examined and models of prison management are developed.

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 collection reflects upon the ways in which crime and its control feature in the political and cultural landscapes of contemporary societies. The book discusses the meaning of crime and punishment in late-modern society.

Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. However, the new regime housed in the new building became notorious. Reconstructing a Women's Prison describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison in the 1970s and 80s.

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.

Based upon observation of murder squads at work, interviews with detectives and detailed analysis of police case files, this is an account of the practices and processes involved in the investigation of serious violent crimes, as well as some of the problems that are often encountered in the conduct of this work.

Rather than searching for a unified theory of crime, this work highlights the interpretive oscillations which always occur when we are faced with criminal behaviour: each time we subscribe to one cause of crime we may realize that also the opposite cause possesses some reasonable validity.