Routledge Advances in Criminology
About the Book Series
This series explores the critical issues within criminology and offers the latest insight into the field through international case studies and timely theoretical debates.
Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans
1st Edition
Edited
By Monica Massari, Vittorio Martone
June 30, 2020
Using in-depth field research and analysis of case studies, Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans focuses attention on the phenomenon of violence performed by Italian organised crime groups, devoting specific attention to the Camorra, which has been ...
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology
1st Edition
By Anthony Walsh
April 28, 2020
Some of the brightest minds in criminology who were nurtured on the strictly environmentalist paradigm of the 20th century have declared that biosocial criminology is the paradigm for the 21st century. This book attempts to unite this ever-growing field with the premier neurobiological theory of ...
Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Convict Criminologist
1st Edition
By Matthew G. Yeager
December 22, 2017
Frank Tannenbaum and the Making of a Convict Criminologist is a historical biography about Columbia University professor Frank Tannenbaum and his contribution to American criminology. Tannenbaum was a major figure in criminology in the early twentieth century, and is known for his contributions to ...
Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media
1st Edition
By Paul Manning
October 16, 2015
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....
The Myth of Moral Panics: Sex, Snuff, and Satan
1st Edition
By Bill Thompson, Andy Williams
October 12, 2015
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....
Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts: Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions
1st Edition
By Caroline Braunmühl
July 03, 2014
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...
American Smuggling as White Collar Crime
1st Edition
By Lawrence Karson
June 19, 2014
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 ...
Criminal Justice in International Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Willem de Lint, Marinella Marmo, Nerida Chazal
January 13, 2014
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 ...
European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability
1st Edition
Edited
By James Gobert, Ana-Maria Pascal
January 03, 2014
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 ...
Security and Everyday Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Vida Bajc, Willem de Lint
August 06, 2013
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 ...
Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society
1st Edition
By Huan Gao
June 24, 2013
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 ...
Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Sytze F. Kingma
September 25, 2012
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 ...