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.
Transitional Justice
1st Edition
By Christine Bell
June 30, 2020
This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of ’justice’. Yet transitional justice appears quite different from other types of justice and fundamental ambiguities characterise the term that raise questions as to how it should sit alongside other...
Crime and Culture: An Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By René Lévy, Amy Gilman Srebnick
August 23, 2018
Scholarly interest in the history of crime has grown dramatically in recent years and, because scholars associated with this work have relied on a broad social definition of crime which includes acts that are against the law as well as acts of social banditry and political rebellion, crime history ...
Family Violence and Police Response: Learning From Research, Policy and Practice in European Countries
1st Edition
By Marijke Malsch, Wilma Smeenk
June 28, 2017
Police response to incidents of intimate partner violence can be critical. This volume investigates the elements in the institutional, legal and organizational context that are relevant for police response to incidents in the realm of the private sphere and whether there exists a relation with the ...
Deleuze and Environmental Damage: Violence of the Text
1st Edition
By Mark Halsey
March 29, 2017
This book offers a post-structuralist critique of the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and regulation. Through a notably detailed micro-political analysis of forest conflict, the author explores the limits of academic commentary on environmental issues and suggests ...
The Policing of Transnational Protest
1st Edition
By Abby Peterson, Donatella della Porta
February 27, 2017
Having long been a neglected issue, the policing of protest began to attract considerable attention in the 1990s, climaxing in the events in Seattle of 1999. These protests and the changing political climate since September 11, 2001 mean that a new cycle of protest is challenging the concept of law...
The Arts of Imprisonment: Control, Resistance and Empowerment
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonidas K. Cheliotis
November 28, 2016
The arts - spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres - constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness. Perhaps this is especially so in the case of imprisonment: its nature, its ...
Governing through Crime in South Africa: The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes
1st Edition
By Gail Super
November 15, 2016
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. Having undergone a dramatic transition from authoritarianism to ...
The Hidden Order of Corruption: An Institutional Approach
1st Edition
By Donatella della Porta, Alberto Vannucci
November 10, 2016
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....
Transitional Justice: Images and Memories
1st Edition
Edited
By Chrisje Brants-Langeraar, Antoine Hol, Dina Siegel
November 10, 2016
Transitional justice is usually associated with international criminal courts and tribunals, but criminal justice is merely one way of dealing with the legacy of conflict and atrocity. Justice is not only a matter of law. It is a process of making sense of the past and accepting the possibility of ...
Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons
1st Edition
By Mary Bosworth
November 09, 2016
This book explores how power is negotiated in women’s prisons. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in three penal establishments in England, it analyses how women manage the restrictions of imprisonment and the manner in which they attempt to resist institutional control. It is proposed that power is ...
Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics
1st Edition
By Alessandro De Giorgi
October 31, 2016
The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each 'mode of production' knows its peculiar 'modes of punishment'. However, global processes of transformation have ...
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison
1st Edition
By Chris Cunneen, Eileen Baldry, David Brown, Mark Brown, Melanie Schwartz, Alex Steel
August 26, 2016
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and ...