Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides: Part II
1st Edition
Edited
By Lin Huff-Corzine, Kayla Toohy
June 15, 2026
Translated by Kayla Toohy and Boniface Noyongoyo This translation of Pauline Tarnowsky’s Les Femmes Homicides presents an important historical work in English for the first time. Tarnowsky, a neuropathologist and one of the first women permitted to attend medical school in Russia, has often been ...
Bouncer Culture and the Nighttime Economy: The Last Cursed Half Hour
1st Edition
By Pietro Saitta
June 02, 2026
This book offers a sharp ethnographic immersion into the high-stakes world of nightclub security in Southern Italy. Following months of firsthand fieldwork, it uncovers how authority is truly negotiated beyond the velvet rope. Rather than focusing on physical intimidation, the narrative reveals how...
Disability Hate Crime: Perspectives for Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Leah Burch, David Wilkin
January 30, 2026
Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the victimology of disability hate crime (DHC). For the first time, this book brings together recent academic thought, the stance of those working for the United Nations to further the ...
Victimisation in the Digital Age: An Online/Offline Continuum Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Tine Munk, Morag Kennedy
January 30, 2026
Examining how victimisation can occur across the online-offline continuum while emphasising the need for a holistic approach to understanding and addressing contemporary harms, this book covers various themes of victimisation in the digital age linked to the interconnectedness and blurred ...
Pathways into and out of Youth Cybercrime: Research Findings and Reflections for Academics, Professionals and Policymakers
1st Edition
By Julia Davidson, Ruby Farr
January 15, 2026
This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of pathways into and out of youth cybercrime, and evidence-led ways to tackle the cybercrime epidemic, drawing on theoretical perspectives and insights from the largest European H2020 study of youth cybercrime undertaken to date. As societies ...
Neoliberalism and Punishment
1st Edition
By Ignacio González-Sánchez
October 27, 2025
Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first 40 years of democracy, this book puts forward the importance of studying punishment from a sociological perspective and examines the neoliberal penality thesis. Today, Spain has more police officers and more people in prison than...
Contemporary Economic Crime: Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Michala Meiselles, Nicholas Ryder, Penelope Giosa
September 30, 2025
This edited collection explores the culpability of corporate bodies and international organisations and examines the different responses to economic offences such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, cybercrime, market manipulation, insider trading and market abuse. In a world where ...
Extremism and Radicalization in the Manosphere: Beta Uprising
1st Edition
By Deniese Kennedy-Kollar
September 28, 2025
This book presents an analysis of the male supremacist ideology of the internet-based subculture known as the manosphere and examines the process of radicalization to violent extremism that occurs within the group. The manosphere is the online subculture comprised of several distinct groups who ...
Public Opinion on Crime: Message Framing and Deliberative Democracy for a Progressive Consensus
1st Edition
By Thomas McNeil
September 22, 2025
Examining the interrelationship between political rhetoric, reactionarygovernments and discriminatory ideologies, this book offers a fuller account of how our views on crime are formed. From media headlines to community groups on social media, fear of crime permeates society. At its worst, societal...
The Social Construction of Kidnapping: A Critical Perspective
1st Edition
By Camilo Tamayo Gomez
August 15, 2025
Moving beyond simplistic and sensationalist portrayals of kidnapping, this book offers a critical and interdisciplinary analysis that examines kidnapping as a social, historical, cultural, and political phenomenon. Kidnapping is a profound violation of human rights that reshapes societies, disrupts...
Juvenile Delinquency, Victimization, and Justice in Chinese Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Yue Zhuo, Hua Zhong
July 31, 2025
Exploring the pressing issues of juvenile delinquency, victimization, and justice in Chinese societies, this book showcases contemporary research on these critical topics. The collections provide a comprehensive examination of youth-related challenges and justice systems across mainland China, Hong...
Fairness and Crime: A Theory
1st Edition
By Mark S. Davis
July 30, 2025
Criminology, the discipline that informs our understanding of crime and justice, is facing an identity crisis. Long dominated by sociology’s view of crime and its causes, criminology has recently witnessed the rise of a new cadre of academics who feel free to explore other explanations. Fairness ...