Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice
About the Book Series
The works in this series strive to generate new conceptual and theoretical frameworks to address the legal, organisational and normative responses to the challenges that diversity and intersectionality present to criminal justice systems. This series aims to present cutting edge empirically informed theoretical works from both new and established scholars around the world.
Drawing upon a range of disciplines including sociology, law, history, economics, anthropology, and social work, the series encourages different approaches to questions of mobility, social inequality, and exclusion with a cross-section of theorists, empiricists, and critical policy researchers. It will be key reading for scholars who are working in criminal justice, criminology, criminal law and human rights, as well as those in the fields of gender and LGBTI studies, migration studies, race and ethnic relations, social stratification, refugee studies and post-colonial studies.
We welcome book proposals that address any of these issues, or related topics, for an inclusive and interdisciplinary series. Please contact series co-editor, Patricia Faraldo Cabana ([email protected]) or Nancy Wonders ([email protected]) to discuss potential book projects. To submit a proposal, contact the Editor, Lydia de Cruz ([email protected]).
An Intersectional Analysis of Climate Change and Atrocity Crimes: Life on Earth is in Crisis
1st Edition
By Stacy Banwell
November 21, 2025
Examining the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and atrocity crimes, this book analyses how gender, race, and species hierarchies shape experiences of and responses to the climate emergency. Investigating the nexus between human-induced climate change and atrocity crimes, this book ...
Pornography, Rough Sex and Gendered Harm: Just Sex on Screen?
1st Edition
By Samantha Keene
February 11, 2025
Exploring the nuances and complexities in men’s and women’s accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book demonstrates how pornography can be both a site for pleasure and pain across gendered lines. Drawing on interviews with 24 heterosexual adults from ...
Restorative Justice and Contemporary Political Theory: Critical Encounters
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Maglione
November 19, 2024
Outlining an original analysis of the political dimension of restorative justice, this book seeks both to enhance the critical comprehension of this phenomenon and to forge new tools for acting politically through restorative justice, inviting restorative justice scholars, practitioners and ...
Sexuality in the Swedish Police: From Gay Jokes to Pride Parades
1st Edition
By Jens Rennstam
October 04, 2024
Sexuality in the Swedish Police is based on the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual police officers and the author's observations of police work. Written at the intersection of organizational, gender, and police studies, the book analyses how processes of exclusion and inclusion of LGB ...
Legal Professionals Negotiating the Borders of Identity: Operation Streamline and Competing Identity Management
1st Edition
By Jessie K. Finch
May 27, 2024
This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the México-U.S. border called Operation Streamline as a rich setting to understand the identity management strategies employed by lawyers and judges. How do individuals negotiate situations in which their work-role identity ...
Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability Malleability Thesis
1st Edition
By Esmorie Miller
September 25, 2023
Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England. The book links racial disparities in youth justice, especially ...
Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable?
1st Edition
By Anita Grace
September 25, 2023
Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable? explores the conflicting discourses about employment for women who are exiting prison. It empirically outlines the landscape of employability supports available to reentering women, the ‘steps to employment’ women are directed to follow, ...
Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism
1st Edition
By Sarah Prior, Brooke de Heer
September 27, 2022
Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of sexual terrorism. Using a sexual ...
Image-based Sexual Abuse: A Study on the Causes and Consequences of Non-consensual Nude or Sexual Imagery
1st Edition
By Nicola Henry, Clare McGlynn, Asher Flynn, Kelly Johnson, Anastasia Powell, Adrian J. Scott
April 29, 2022
This book investigates the causes and consequences of image-based sexual abuse in a digital era. Image-based sexual abuse refers to the taking or sharing of nude or sexual photographs or videos of another person without their consent. It includes a diversity of behaviours beyond that of "revenge ...
The Political Economy of Punishment Today: Visions, Debates and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Dario Melossi, Máximo Sozzo, José Brandariz García
March 31, 2021
Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in ...
Transgender Cops: The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality Expectations in Police Cultures
1st Edition
By Heather Panter
March 31, 2021
Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing and explores how gender, and the non-conformity of it, is perceived within ...
Gendered Injustice: Uncovering the Lived Experience of Detained Girls
1st Edition
By Anastasia Tosouni
February 21, 2019
Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform. Such studies have called for a shift back to rehabilitative ideals augmented by innovative strategies ...