New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
About the Book Series
This series seeks to publish original cutting-edge contributions to the fields of criminology, criminal justice and penology. Volumes include discussions of Foucault and 'governmentality'; critical criminology; victims and criminal justice; corporate crime; comparative criminology and women's prisons.
Doing Youth Justice: A Case Study in Governance
1st Edition
By Jo Phoenix
January 05, 2026
Doing Youth Justice is a theoretically informed, empirical analysis of the ways in which information about the risks and needs of young people is used to create knowledge about 'young offenders', which in turn provides the rationale for particular interventions and constitutes specific young penal ...
Privacy, Technology, and the Criminal Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Roberts, Joe Purshouse, Jason Bosland
April 14, 2025
This collection considers the implications for privacy of the utilisation of new technologies in the criminal process. In most modern liberal democratic states, privacy is considered a basic right. Many national constitutions, and almost all international human rights instruments, include some ...
Crimmigration under International Protection: Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality
1st Edition
By Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins
December 19, 2024
By exploring crimmigration at its intersection with international refugee law, this book exposes crimmigration as a system focused on the governance of territorially present migrants, which internalizes the impracticability of removal and replaces expulsion with domestic policing. The convergence ...
Social Exclusion and the Criminal Justice System: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
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By Elisa García-España, Anabel Cerezo
June 03, 2024
This book presents the results of the latest in a long-running research project using the RIMES instrument, developed by scholars in Spain. Here, RIMES is used to measure the extent of social exclusion resulting from the penal system in comparative perspective. The volume shows the results of the ...
Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice: International Debates
1st Edition
By Adam Crawford, Jo Goodey
February 29, 2024
As numerous academic and political commentators have noted, the implications of introducing a victim’s perspective into the delicate balance between state and offender is likely to be a key issue in the future of criminal justice. This book seeks to outline the contours of the relevant debates ...
Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Steven Tudor, Richard Weisman, Michael Proeve, Kate Rossmanith
May 31, 2023
This multi-disciplinary 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. Despite the widespread and long-standing nature of interest in offender remorse, the topic has until recently ...
The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture
1st Edition
By Louise Brangan
January 09, 2023
Prisons are everywhere. Yet they are not everywhere alike. How can we explain the differences in cross-national uses of incarceration? The Politics of Punishment explores this question by undertaking a comparative sociological analysis of penal politics and imprisonment in Ireland and Scotland. ...
Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood: From Protection to Punishment
1st Edition
By Simon Flacks
September 26, 2022
Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young. Yet how has this association come to be so strong, and why does it have so much explanatory, rhetorical and political force? The premise for this book is that the relationship between drugs and childhood ...
Capital Punishment: New Perspectives
1st Edition
By Peter Hodgkinson
June 30, 2020
This collection asks questions about the received wisdom of the debate about capital punishment. Woven through the book, questions are asked of, and remedies proposed for, a raft of issues identified as having been overlooked in the traditional discourse. It provides a long overdue review of the ...
Governance of Security and Ignored Insecurities in Contemporary Europe
1st Edition
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By Salvatore Palidda
June 30, 2020
This book explores changes in security governance in Europe from the 1990s, focusing on some of the most important consequences: the proliferation of ignored insecurities, including the increase of oncological diseases, environmental disasters, shadow economies reproducing neo-slavery and fiscal ...
Locating Deviance: Crime, Change and Organizations
1st Edition
By Gerald Mars
June 30, 2020
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'. Exploring the effects of ...
Reconceptualising Penality: A Comparative Perspective on Punitiveness in Ireland, Scotland and New Zealand
1st Edition
By Claire Hamilton
June 30, 2020
Drastic increases in the use of imprisonment; the introduction of ’three strikes’ laws and mandatory sentences; restrictions on parole - all of these developments appear to signify a new, harsher era or ’punitive turn’. Yet these features of criminal justice are not universally present in all ...