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  • - Learning From Research, Policy and Practice in European Countries
    af Marijke Malsch
    352,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Andrew Roberts
    1.925,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Simon Flacks
    574,95 - 1.467,95 kr.

  • - Crime, Change and Organizations
    af Gerald Mars
    486,95 kr.

    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'.

  • af Peter Hodgkinson
    486,95 - 1.938,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
     
    1.825,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand
    af Claire Hamilton
    486,95 - 1.925,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Christine Bell
    486,95 - 3.353,95 kr.

  • - International Debates
    af Adam (University of Leeds Crawford
    427,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Revival of the Prison
    af David Brown, Mark Brown, Chris Cunneen, mfl.
    702,95 - 1.922,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Feminist Reading of the Rise of the Security Society
    af Tamar Pitch
    732,95 - 1.913,95 kr.

    '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.

  • af Abby Peterson
    702,95 - 2.020,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Control, Resistance and Empowerment
     
    736,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Dr Mary Bosworth
    658,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    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.

  • - An Institutional Approach
    af Donatella Della Porta & Alberto Vannucci
    732,95 - 1.931,95 kr.

    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.

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    1.921,95 kr.

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

  • - Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics
    af Alessandro De Giorgi
    560,95 - 2.010,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Violence of the Text
    af Mark Halsey
    584,95 - 1.921,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Images and Memories
     
    1.649,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes
    af Gail Super
    692,95 - 1.917,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Control, Resistance and Empowerment
     
    1.934,95 kr.

    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.

  •  
    1.929,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Mutual Constructions of Race and Criminal Justice
    af Claire Spivakovsky
    694,95 - 1.917,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Global Perspective
    af Don Cipriani
    548,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Rob T. Guerette
    584,95 - 1.888,95 kr.

    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.