Crime Science Series
About the Book Series
Crime science is a new way of thinking about and responding to the problem of crime in society. First, crime science is about crime. Instead of the usual focus in criminology on the characteristics of the criminal offender, crime science is concerned with the characteristics of the criminal event. Second, crime science is about science, advocating an evidence-based, problem-solving approach to crime control. Crime scientists actively engage with front-line criminal justice practitioners to reduce crime by making it more difficult for individuals to offend, and making it more likely that they will be detected if they do offend
The Crime Science series is utilitarian in its orientation and multidisciplinary in its foundations, drawing on disciplines from both the social and physical sciences, including criminology, sociology, psychology, geography, economics, architecture, industrial design, epidemiology, computer science, mathematics, engineering, and biology.
Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective
1st Edition
By Anthony Walsh
November 05, 2025
Key Contested Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice addresses the key issues within criminology and criminal justice that are strongly contested among scholars in the field. Covering 18 different themes, the book identifies the ways in which different issues are contested and demonstrates how ...
Crime Science: Modern Technologies to Combat Crime
1st Edition
By Lisa Stolzenberg, Stewart J. D'Alessio
August 11, 2025
This book comprehensively examines the rapidly changing tactics and technologies used to combat crime. The authors delve into the intricacies of how scientific methodologies and technological advancements are employed to investigate and prevent various forms of crime, exploring topics such as ...
Insider Threat: A Systemic Approach
1st Edition
By Pierre Skorich, Matthew Manning
August 26, 2024
Establishing a new framework for understanding insider risk by focusing on systems of organisation within large enterprises, including public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, this book analyses practices to better assess, prevent, detect, and respond to insider risk and protect assets and ...
Psychological Criminology: An Integrative Approach
2nd Edition
By Richard Wortley
November 15, 2023
Psychological Criminology explores what is it about individuals and their experiences that causes them to commit crime and/or to become criminal. Fully updated to include the latest theories and research, this new edition provides comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and ...
Eliminating Online Child Sexual Abuse Material
1st Edition
By Rick Brown
December 09, 2022
This book uses a crime science approach to explore the ways in which child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can be tackled. It describes the CSAM ecosystem, focusing on the ways in which it is produced, distributed and consumed and explores different interventions that can be used to tackle each issue....
Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Gerritsen, Henk Elffers
May 30, 2022
Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development addresses the question whether and how we can use simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend and further develop theories. It is by no ...
Realist Evaluation for Crime Science: Essays in Honour of Nick Tilley
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Farrell, Aiden Sidebottom
July 31, 2020
This collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of Realistic Evaluation, celebrates the work of Professor Nick Tilley and his significant influence on the fields of policing, crime reduction and evaluation. With contributions from colleagues, co-authors and former students, many ...
Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald V. Clarke
April 17, 2020
Problem-Oriented Policing: Successful Case Studies is the first systematic and rigorous collection of effective problem-oriented policing projects. It includes more than twenty case studies from among the thousands of projects submitted for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in ...
Advances in Evidence-Based Policing
1st Edition
Edited
By Johannes Knutsson, Lisa Tompson
March 05, 2019
The evidence-based policing (EBP) movement has intensified in many countries around the world in recent years, resulting in a proliferation of policies and infrastructure to support such a transformation. This movement has come to be associated with particular methods of evaluation and systematic ...
Cybercrime in Progress: Theory and prevention of technology-enabled offenses
1st Edition
By Thomas Holt, Adam Bossler
April 27, 2017
The emergence of the World Wide Web, smartphones, and computers has transformed the world and enabled individuals to engage in crimes in a multitude of new ways. Criminological scholarship on these issues has increased dramatically over the last decade, as have studies on ways to prevent and police...
Applied Police Research: Challenges and opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ella Cockbain, Johannes Knutsson
October 31, 2016
Remarkably little has been written about the theory and practice of applied police research, despite growing demand for evidence in crime prevention. Designed to fill this gap, this book offers a valuable new resource. It contains a carefully curated selection of contributions from some of the ...
Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis
2nd Edition
Edited
By Richard Wortley, Michael Townsley
October 31, 2016
Environmental criminology is a term that encompasses a range of overlapping perspectives. At its core, the many strands of environmental criminology are bound by a common focus on the role that the immediate environment plays in the performance of crime, and a conviction that careful analyses of ...