Books in the Crime and Society Series series

Fraud remains one of the most important crimes and causes billions of pounds of losses each year. This book provides coverage of the main issues involved in fraud, its definition, costs, the nature of the offenders involved in committing fraud, and the issues involved in fraud investigation.

This title provides a systematic account of burglary, focusing on the crime in the first of the book, and on policy responses in the second part. It is intended for both students of criminology and criminal justice, and practitioners in policing and crime prevention.

Concerned with crimes against worker health and safety, this book offers an account and analysis of this field. It uses case studies to illustrate key points and themes, including the high profile instances of safety crimes, as well as the larger number of 'routine' deaths, injuries, ill-health, prosecutions, and enforcement relationships.

Armed robbery is regarded as one of the most serious crimes, and is widely reported in the media. This book provides an account of armed robbery, based on research with 350 robbers in prison, and on work with two police armed response units - from the Metropolitan and South Yorkshire Police.

Claire Corbett embraces a much wider definition than theft of and from cars, she argues that "car crime" by drivers - road rage, mobile phone use, speeding - has much greater social ramifications.

Street crime remains high on the public and political agenda, and is frequently the subject of media attention and concern. This book aims to provide a detailed and accessible account of the phenomenon, placing the subject in its theoretical, historical and political context.

Seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing an account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. This book uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation.

Provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK. This book overviews the various definitional issues before exploring possible examples of state crime in the UK and then considering why state crime occurs and how it is investigated and adjudicated.