Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
About the Book Series
Contemporary social scientific scholarship is being transformed by the challenges associated with the changing nature of, and responses to, questions of crime, security and justice across the globe. Traditional disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences are being disturbed and at times broken down by the emerging scholarly analysis of both the increasing merging of issues of ‘crime’ and ‘security’ and the unsettling of traditional notions of justice, rights and due process in an international political and cultural climate seemingly saturated by, and obsessed with, fear, insecurity and risk. This series showcases contemporary research studies, edited collections and works of original intellectual synthesis that contribute to this new body of scholarship both within the field of study of criminology and beyond to its connections with debates in the social sciences more broadly.
How Crime Governance Defines the Urban Experience: The Maze of Security
1st Edition
By Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda
June 26, 2026
The book explores the complex links between war and order, presenting a well-founded and fresh view on how crime is governed in modern societies. It challenges existing analyses of the relationship between space and social control, offering an original theoretical perspective and a new analytical ...
Variably Legal Markets: Rethinking Markets and Crime
1st Edition
Edited
By Letizia Paoli, Nicholas Lord
March 31, 2026
This book offers a novel perspective for conceptualising legality in market exchanges. It challenges the conventional binary of “legal” versus “illegal” markets by introducing the concept of variably legal markets - arenas of exchange where legality is conditional, multidimensional, and ...
The Security Field: Crime Control, Power and Symbolic Capital
1st Edition
By Matt Bowden
October 27, 2025
How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Today, we see a broader landscape of regulatory players who are involved in the control and management of crime, whether in crime prevention, safety in the community or...
Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders
1st Edition
By Frederick Cram
October 09, 2024
This book analyses the impact of Integrated Offender Management (IOM) on contemporary policing and separates the rhetoric from the reality. Drawing on a qualitative study within an English police force over two years, this book examines the experiences of prolific offenders, subject to IOM, and ...
Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure
1st Edition
By Avi Brisman
August 26, 2024
This book is an ethnographic examination of the young people who serve voluntarily as judges, advocates and other court personnel at the Red Hook Youth Court (RHYC) in Brooklyn, New York—a juvenile diversion program designed to prevent the formal processing of juvenile offenders—usually first-time ...
Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution
1st Edition
By Randy K. Lippert, Kevin Walby
May 27, 2024
Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution is about a pervasive but little-studied phenomenon. Private funding of public police entails private entities sending resources to police through unconventional or hidden channels, sometimes for suspect reasons. The book argues police ...
Crime and Disorder in Community Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Wickes, Lorraine Mazerolle
September 25, 2023
Drawing on unique longitudinal community-level data in Brisbane, this book entwines current ecological theories of crime with key debates on the relevance of ‘community’ in contemporary urban life to examine the spatial and temporal relationships between community structure, community social ...
The Algorithmic Society: Technology, Power, and Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Marc Schuilenburg, Rik Peeters
June 30, 2022
We live in an algorithmic society. Algorithms have become the main mediator through which power is enacted in our society. This book brings together three academic fields – Public Administration, Criminal Justice and Urban Governance – into a single conceptual framework, and offers a broad ...
Policing Nightlife: Security, Transgression and Urban Order
1st Edition
By Phillip Wadds
April 29, 2022
Nightlife is a place of both real and imagined risk, a ‘frontier’ (Melbin 1978) where apparent freedom and transgression are closely linked, and where regulation of leisure and collective intoxication has been diffused throughout an expanding network of state and private actors. This book explores ...
Politicising and Policing Organised Crime
1st Edition
By Monique Mann
March 31, 2021
The concept of ‘organised crime’ is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities...
Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucas Melgaço, Jeffrey Monaghan
March 31, 2021
Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing social movements ...
Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice
1st Edition
By Tim Goddard, Randy Myers
March 31, 2021
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police–community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor people of ...