Routledge Advances in Criminology

Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

By Caroline Braunmühl

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in...

Published July 3rd 2014 by Routledge

American Smuggling as White Collar Crime

By Lawrence Karson

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

When Edwin Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, he referred to the respectable businessmen of his day who had, in the course of their occupations, violated the law whenever it was advantageous to do so. Yet since the founding of the American Republic, numerous otherwise...

Published June 19th 2014 by Routledge

Criminal Justice in International Society

Edited by Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo, Nerida Chazal

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production, representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the...

Published January 13th 2014 by Routledge

European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability

Edited by James Gobert, Ana-Maria Pascal

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

When corporations carry on their business in a grossly negligent manner, or take a cavalier approach to risk management, the consequences can be catastrophic. The harm may be financial, as occurred when such well-regarded companies as Enron, Lehman Brothers, Worldcom and Barings collapsed, or it...

Published January 10th 2014 by Routledge

Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media

By Paul Manning

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social networking and video file-sharing sites - transform the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented. Tracing the emergence of formal drug...

Published October 8th 2013 by Routledge

The Myth of Moral Panics

Sex, Snuff, and Satan

By Bill Thompson, Andy Williams

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective....

Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge

Security and Everyday Life

Edited by Vida Bajc, Willem de Lint

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

When everyday social situations and cultural phenomena come to be associated with a threat to security, security becomes a value which competes with other values – particularly the right to privacy and human rights. In this comparison, security appears as an obvious choice over the loss of some...

Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge

Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

By Huan Gao

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge

Global Gambling

Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations

Edited by Sytze F. Kingma

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

While most research has examined the legal, economic and psychological sides of gambling, this innovative collection offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using both historical and present-day case studies from throughout the world, the authors seriously consider...

Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge

Social Class and Crime

A Biosocial Approach

By Anthony Walsh

Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a...

Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge