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Rethinking community sanctions
Based on insights from interviews with key participants in 3 Australian jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the importance of connecting criminal legal system struggles with broader movements for community control, self-determination, and sovereignty.
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Rich crime, poor crime
An important and challenging book comprehensively spanning across the establishment of power systems, Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a vital read for academics, professionals and those interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.
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Screening justice
What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What purpose to Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally?Screening Justice is a scholarly exploration of films that focus on crime and justice in Canada. Crime films are pivotal for understanding and shaping Canadian sensi...
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Screening torture
Before 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practice in a variety of forms. In most cases, torture was cast as the act of a desperate and depraved individual, and the viewer was more likely to identify with the victim rather than the torturer. Since the ...
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Security in the anthropocene
The belief that »Nature« exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tenable. In a world defined by human action, we must reorient our understanding of ourselves, of our environment, and our security.This book considers how...
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Sensory penalities
Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding anthropological practices and craft into the field of criminology and criminological research.
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Sex crimes
This book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspective
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Sexual violence at canadian universities
This timely collection explores campus sexual violence and its causes, consequences, and strategies for its elimination at Canadian universities. Through empirical research and theoretical writings by new and established scholars and community and campus activists, it offers the first interdiscip...
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Social perspectives on death and dying
Death is inevitable, but our perspectives about death and dying are socially constructed. This updated third edition takes us through the maze of issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in Canada. Topics include euthanasia and medically assisted death, palliative care and...
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Southern green criminology
Southern Green Criminology focuses on the threat the western world poses to the rest of the globe, and how Western imposed ideas of progress are damaging the planet, especially the southern hemisphere.
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Sovereign citizen ideology
A much-needed introduction to Sovereign Citizen ideology in book form, Christine Sarteschi spotlights the prevalence and scope of sovereign citizen involvement in the January 6th US Capitol insurrection.
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Special issue
In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transform...
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Studies in law, politics, and society
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted s...
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Teaching and learning about genocide and crimes against humanity
Samuel Totten's book combines genocide theory, the realities of the genocidal process, and pedagogical approaches for teaching about genocide. It aims to provide educators with a comprehensive resource for addressing complex and difficult issues in a theoretically, historically, and pedagogically...
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Terror, leisure and consumption
This book uses a series of case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethink the relationships between harm, crime, deviance, leisure and capitalism.
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The abolition of prison
A $50 billion dollar industry that cages one out of three Black men? End it now!
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The age of lone wolf terrorism
Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected individuals and recognizing patterns of indoctrination. A combination of personal and political grievances lead lone w...
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The ambiguities of desistance
This book explores the ongoing and individual desistance journeys of ex-offenders during re-integration into society. It introduces nuanced and rich data around the growing interest in desistance, examines the reasons why individuals move away from crime, and highlights the importance of Higher E...
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The cage of days
This book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience, to examine how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime.
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The citizen and the state
The Citizen and the State examines the conflict between criminal justice and civil liberties from a critical criminology perspective. It argues that far from being a search for truth or justice, contemporary criminal justice represents the power of the state against the individual.
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The con men
A hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.
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The contemporary history of drug-based organised crime in scotland
The Contemporary History of Drug-Based Organised Crime in Scotland provides insight into the development of drug based organised crime in the region, and how this process has subsequently shaped the wider criminal landscape of Scotland.
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The criminal record complex
How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiringMost employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and thus denying opportunities to those who need them ...
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The cultural and economic context of maternal infanticide
This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of 'good'mothering.
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The disappearance of criminal law
In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the power of the police. These cases involve police power in relation to search, seizure and detention; an individual’s right to silence, couns...
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The ecology of homicide
Like so many big cities in the United States, Philadelphia has suffered from a strikingly high murder rate over the past fifty years. Such tragic loss of life, as Eric C. Schneider demonstrates, does not occur randomly throughout the city; rather, murders have been racialized and spatialized, con...
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The emerald handbook of narrative criminology
Over 23 chapters this Handbook reflects the diversity of methodological approaches employed in the emerging field of narrative criminology.
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The first british crime survey
The First British Crime Survey: An Ethnography of Criminology within Government explores the early history of the British Crime Survey and how government officials, academics, and criminologists address the challenges brought by large-scale data projects.
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The gang paradox
Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.
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The idea of prison abolition
An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentenc...
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The impact of global drug policy on women
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Examining the impact of drug criminalisation on a previously overlooked demographic, this book argues that women are disproportionately affected by a flawed policy approach.
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The incel rebellion
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews,this book provides an insight into the development of the manosphere, and the extent to which the influence and philosophy of...
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The minneapolis reckoning
An urgent account of why it’s so difficult to reform the policeThe eruption of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in 2014 spurred a wave of police reform. One of the places to embrace this reform was Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city long known for its liberal politics. Yet in May 2...
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The nature of drugs vol. 1
The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact, Volume 1, presents lectures from Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin’s popular course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society. Transcribed from the original lectures recorded at San ...
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The policing mind
How does it feel to be a police officer in the UK? What happens in the brains of officers, particularly in high-risk roles such as counter-terrorism and child sexual exploitation? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience, be...
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The secrets of silence
Why black women’s stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violenceIn The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone...
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The socially constructed and reproduced youth delinquency in southeast asia
Analysing the causes and effects of a variety of youth delinquent behaviours, both digital and conventional, this book aligns insightful sociological inquiry with an ongoing regional phenomenon.
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The spectacle of criminal justice
Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitised public engagement with the...
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The sustainability of restorative justice
Restorative justice is a concept which could have significant implications for both the law and social regulation. In this book, the authors give an insight to how the introduction of these techniques has been received in the Republic of Ireland, shedding light on what could be the key to develop...
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The toll it takes
How gun violence is making Americans sickGun violence is often treated as a narrow criminal justice problem or an episodic tragedy rather than a persistent public health crisis. In this timely and necessary book, Daniel Semenza reframes gun violence as a widespread and unevenly distributed health...
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The use and abuse of music
Using a critical criminological approach, this book analyses what is deviant and transgressive about music, focusing on three main parts; the concept of 'harmful' or deviant music; the use of music as punishment and the censorship and silencing of music.
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The usefulness of crime
In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head.
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The vigilant eye
In The Vigilant Eye, Greg Marquis combines the narrative and chronological approach of traditional institutional history with the critical approaches of social history, legal history and criminology. The book begins with the English and Irish roots of nineteenth-century British North American pol...
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The xl bully ban
In England and Wales, the controversial decision was made to add American XL Bully-type dogs to the prohibited breeds list of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. The XL Bully Ban is the first book on this topic that explores the impacts on caregivers and, uniquely, their exempted dogs.
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Thin blue rage
Thin Blue Rage analyzes police as a social movement through exploring policing’s ideological dimensions, communications practices, political campaigning, and violence work.
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Trafficking harms
This book brings together a stellar collection of scholars, activists and affected individuals who offer a much-needed critical perspective on Canada’s ever-expanding anti-trafficking efforts and their wide-ranging impacts, including on migrant, sex-working and racialized communities.
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Transforming state responses to feminicide
This book provides a new, positive story from Latin America by tracing the transformation of state responses to feminicide in Brazil. It is the first single country study to examine how action by the women's movement has resulted in significant improvements in the investigation, prosecution and p...
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