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Books in the Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia series

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  • - Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
    by Shampa Roy
    £93.99

    This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender.

  • - Mastaans, Street Gangs and 'Illicit Child Labourers' in Dhaka
    by Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
    £46.49 - 62.49

    This book presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book explores how street children are hired by 'mastaans', to carry weapons, sell drugs, collect extortion money, commit political violence and conduct contract killings.

  • - Causes, Narratives and Interventions
    by Saju Parackal & Rita Panicker
    £42.49 - 58.49

    This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system.

  • - Community Sanctions and Measures
    by Qi Chen
    £83.99

    This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and community sentences.

  • - Conflict, Censure and Compromise
    by Muzammil Quraishi
    £134.99

    This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

  • - A Psychological Perspective
    by Laura Bui
    £66.49

    This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries.

  • by Hai Thanh Luong
    £58.49

    This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach.

  • - The Mongkok Riot
    by Kam C. Wong
    £66.49

    This book examines the Hong Kong Mongkok Riot (MKR) of 2016 to offer a clear and objective account of the events as they unfolded, to dispel the myths, and to explore what can be learned from it.

  • - Community Sanctions and Measures
    by Qi Chen
    £114.49

    This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and community sentences.

  • - Organizational Culture, Gender and Colonial Policing
    by Annie Hau-Nung Chan & Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho
    £93.99

  • - A Generation of Strain
    by Wan-Ning Bao
    £93.99 - 124.49

    This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them.

  • - Gender, Judging and Living
    by Anqi Shen
    £104.49

    This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of the Chinese legal system and wider society, revealing a deeper understanding of women in contemporary China.

  • - From Home to School and Beyond
    by Trent Bax
    £93.99

  • - From Jurors to Lay Judges
    by Andrew Watson
    £47.99

    This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system.

  • by Yujing Fun
    £47.99

    Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains how Hong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the prevalence of white collar crime in the city's property sector.

  • by Riccardo Berti
    £47.99

    This book examines the conciliatory institutions that operate within criminal law in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. The book offers a fascinating account of this feature of criminal justice in China and Taiwan, and will be of particular interest to scholars interested in comparative approaches to criminology and criminal justice.

  • - Research and Practice
    by Kam C. Wong
    £93.99

    This comprehensive book examines the state of research on policing in Hong Kong. It surveys the history and development of the field of police studies in Hong Kong, and examines the various methods, problems and prospects in the field.

  • - Gender and Pathways into Crime
    by A. Shen
    £47.99

    Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and female law-breaking in neoliberal China.

  • - India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
     
    £124.49

    Written by some of the most notable criminologists of South Asia, this book examines advances in law, criminal justice, and criminology in South Asia with particular reference to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

  • by David T. Johnson
    £22.49

    This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States.

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