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Criminology
Explaining Crime and Its Context, 9th Edition
By Stephen E. Brown, Finn-Aage Esbensen, Gilbert GeisCriminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, 9th edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and sociology with a thorough exposure to a range of theories, contrasting their logic and assumptions, but also highlighting efforts to integrate and blend these frameworks... Read more...
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Policing in America
8th Edition
By Larry K. Gaines, Victor E. KappelerIn the field of law enforcement in the United States, it is essential to know the contemporary problems being faced and combine that knowledge with empirical research and theoretical reasoning to arrive at best practices and an understanding of policing... Read more...
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Erroll Southers discusses the Charleston shootings and the ‘T’ word
After the recent tragic attack on Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, Erroll Southers shares his thoughts on terrorism, race and religion. Click here to read the full blog post on Securitydebrief.com.
For more information on Erroll's book Homegrown Violent Extremism please click here.
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Gregg Barak - editor of the Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful
Click here to read a fascinating editorial on The Crimes of the Powerful are Under the Investigative Radars by Gregg Barak, the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful which is due to publish in June 2015.
This editorial by Gregg Barak first appeared in the Sociology and Criminology -Open Access journals, Aug 07, 2014. Gregg Barak has also published Media, Process, and the Social Construction of Crime, with Routledge in August 1995.
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Read an interview with Ben Hunter, author of White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime
Click here to read a fascinating interview with Ben Hunter, the author of White-Collar Offenders and Desistance from Crime which published in March 2015.
He reveals the reasons why he decided to write this book, how this book is different than other books in the field and what he found surprising when researching the book. This book is part of the International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation, edited by Stephen Farrall click here to view the full range of books available in this series.
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Introduction to Criminal Justice
8th Edition
By Lawrence F. Travis III, Bradley D. EdwardsThis student-friendly introductory text describes the criminal justice process—outlining the decisions, practices, people, and issues involved. It provides a solid introduction to the mechanisms of the criminal justice system, with balanced coverage... Read more...
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What Works (and Doesn’t) in Reducing Recidivism
By Edward J. Latessa, Shelley L. Listwan, Deborah Koetzle
This book offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Over the last several decades, research has clearly shown that rehabilitation efforts can be effective at reducing recidivism among criminal offenders... Read more...
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The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful
Edited by Gregg Barak
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations... Read more...
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Intersectionality and Criminology
Disrupting and revolutionizing studies of crime
By Hillary PotterThe use of intersectionality theory in the social sciences has proliferated in the past several years, putting forward the argument that the interconnected identities of individuals, and the way these identities are perceived and responded to by others, must be a necessary part of any analysis... Read more...
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NEW: Routledge Featured Authors Page
Have you seen our new Featured Authors Page?... Read more...