Books in the New Advances in Crime and Social Harm series

Investigates the elements in the legal and organizational context relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the reporting of such incidents by victims. This book addresses issues in the relationship between the response to family violence and the reporting by victims.

The implications of introducing a victim's perspective into the delicate balance between state and offender will be a key issue in the future of criminal justice. This book outlines the contours of the relevant debates, drawing together contributions from prominent international commentators from a variety of disciplines.

This collection considers the implications for privacy of the utilisation of new technologies in the criminal process. The threat that technology poses to privacy interests demands critical re-evaluation of current law, policy, and practice. This is provided by the contributions to this volume.

This highly innovative book is thoroughly critical of the way in which punitiveness is currently measured by leading criminologists, in a way which no other European text has done before. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of criminology, penology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies.

This collection questions the received wisdom contained in the debate about capital punishment. It asks questions and proposes remedies for a raft of issues identified as having been overlooked in the traditional discourse. It provides a long overdue review of the disparate groups and strategies that lay claim to abolitionism.

This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of cultural theory derived from anthropology. It does so through case studies and by introducing new concepts such as 'organizational perversion', 'tyranny' and 'organizational capture'.

This multidisciplinary collection brings together original contributions to present the best of current thinking about the nature and place of remorse in the context of criminal justice.

Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia's leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism.

The policing of protest that began to attract attention in the 1990s and the changing political climate since September 11 2001 mean that a new cycle of protest is challenging the concept of law and order and civil liberties. This book examines how new policing styles are developing using case studies from North America and Europe.

Examines developments in the fields of culture conflict, organized crime, victimization and terrorism, which intersect to varying degrees with migration and illegal conduct. These essays aim to further our understanding of many issues surrounding migration, and they illuminate the complexities of managing the challenges as globalization increases.

'The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society, the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences, providing a gender reading of the ways in which, through precautionary measures, social control manifests itself.

When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms. This book investigates the hidden order of corruption, looking at the invisible codes and mechanisms that govern and stabilize the links between corrupters and corruptees.

An examination of power relationships in three women's penal establishments in England. The book aims to demonstrate that women manage to resist prison's full control to some degree, and pays particular attention to aspects of race, class and sexuality.

Investigates the emergence of a modern flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies. The penal politics can be seen as part of a broader project to control this labour force, with far-reaching effects on the role of the prison and punitive strategies in general.

Damage to the environment is a serious threat to quality of life. This book surveys the problems associated with accounts of environmental harm and offers an explication of the insights associated with post-structuralist thought. It applies key post-structuralist concepts to a site of environmental harm, contestation and legal in(ter)ventions.

This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment. It examines how the problem of crime has emerged as a major issue to be governed in post-apartheid South Africa. This work uses the South African case study to examine a question of wider interest.

Racialized Correctional Governance examines problems in the relationship between criminology and racialized issues. It questions current models for discussing issues of race in criminal justice systems and asks why a comprehensive theory of race and criminal justice has yet to develop in the discipline.

Children of almost any age can break the law, but at what age should children first face the possibility of criminal responsibility for their alleged crimes? This book presents a global analysis of national minimum ages of criminal responsibility (MACRs), and the international legal obligations that surround them.

Scholarly interest in the history of crime has grown dramatically in recent years. Adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth century, this collection explores how the history of crime provides a way to study time, place and culture.

This edited collection sheds light both on state use of the arts for the purposes of controlling prisoners and the broader public, and the use made of the arts by prisoners and portions of the broader public as tools of resistance to penal states. The book also includes a number of chapters that address arts-in-prisons programmes, making distinctive contributions to the literature on their philosophy, formation, operation, effectiveness, and research evaluation, but taking care to explore the politics surrounding and underpinning all these themes as well.

This book goes further than providing a legal analysis of the effectiveness of transitional justice and presents a wider perspective. It is a critical appraisal of the different dimensions of the process of transitional justice that affects the imagery and constructions of past experiences and perceptions of conflict.

A topical collection that discuss the implications of globalisation for the fields of comparative criminology and criminal justice.

This collection explores how the history of crime provides a way to study time, place and culture. Investigates the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries and provides new approaches to understanding crime in modern Western culture.

Focuses on state use of the arts for the purposes of controlling prisoners and the broader public, and the use made of the arts by prisoners and portions of the broader public as tools of resistance to penal states.

In the course of the last two decades, the number of arrests, imprisonment and detention of aliens and citizens of foreign origin has increased significantly in the West. This volume examines this growing trend towards racial criminalization and victimization of migrants.