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.
Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality
1st Edition
By Stephen Tomsen
September 30, 2010
The binary model of sexuality can be devastating and even fatal for people left outside the category of heterosexuality. Essentialist categories of sexuality and gender are often enforced by harassment and violence, as is clear in the case of violence directed against sexual minorities such as ...
The Violence of Incarceration
1st Edition
Edited
By Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch
June 30, 2009
Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events ...
The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics
1st Edition
By Stuart Waiton
June 09, 2009
Antisocial behaviour is becoming a universally accepted problem and one that dominates the political and popular imagination. By providing a new criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the...
China’s Death Penalty: History, Law and Contemporary Practices
1st Edition
By Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe
March 06, 2009
By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time are social facts that make China an ideal context for a case study of the death penalty in law and practice. This book ...
The Violence of Incarceration
1st Edition
Edited
By Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch
August 01, 2008
Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events ...
Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.
1st Edition
By Susan C. Boyd
December 13, 2007
Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006...