Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Populism, Punishment and the Threat to Democratic Order: The Return of the Strong Men
1st Edition
By John Pratt
October 09, 2024
This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians. It seeks to make sense of the nature, origins, and consequences of their ascendancy—as expressed, for example, in the startling rise of the social movement ...
Demystifying Modern Slavery
1st Edition
By Rose Broad, David Gadd
October 04, 2024
Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery? Why do they exploit others? What might be done to stop exploitation recurring? These are the questions answered in this book. Reporting on the first primary study of modern slavery offenders, the book depicts the findings of in-depth interviews with ...
Violence: Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling
1st Edition
By David Wästerfors
August 26, 2024
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of ...
Children, Care and Crime: Trauma and Transformation
1st Edition
By Alison Gerard, Andrew McGrath, Emma Colvin, Annette Gainsford
May 27, 2024
The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction (New South Wales), focusing on residential care, policing, the provision of legal services and ...
Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London
1st Edition
By Joshua Stuart-Bennett
May 27, 2024
Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the ...
Between Systems and Violence: State-Level Policy Targeting Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Lives
1st Edition
By Julio Montanez, Amy Donley, Amy Reckdenwald
January 29, 2024
Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives. The book analyzes such statutes’ legal language via various theoretical lenses, as well as provides a discussion of implications ...
A Criminological Biography of an Arms Dealer
1st Edition
By Yarin Eski
September 25, 2023
For many, the arms trade and its dealers are the root cause of regional wars and global terrorism. In both public and academic debates, arms dealers are considered immoral as they profit from conflict, due to their key position in the international arms trading business. Nevertheless, there seems ...
Elderly Sexual Abuse: Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
By Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin
September 25, 2023
This book offers an analytical review of the state of knowledge on elderly sexual abuse and presents new data that will confront some of the accepted ideas and some of the myths associated with this specific form of sexual violence. Sexual violence research has often considered children to be the ...
The Rise of Politically Motivated Cyber Attacks: Actors, Attacks and Cybersecurity
1st Edition
By Tine Munk
September 25, 2023
This book outlines the complexity in understanding different forms of cyber attacks, the actors involved, and their motivations. It explores the key challenges in investigating and prosecuting politically motivated cyber attacks, the lack of consistency within regulatory frameworks, and the grey ...
Alcohol, Crime and Public Health
1st Edition
By Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson
June 09, 2023
Alcohol, Crime and Public Health explores the issue of drinking in the criminal justice system, providing an overview of the topic from both a criminal justice and a public health perspective. The majority of prisoners in the UK (70%) have an alcohol use disorder, and evidence tells us that risky ...
Desistance from Sexual Offending: The Role of Circles of Support and Accountability
1st Edition
By Kelly Richards
May 31, 2023
This book explores how Circles of Support and Accountability can reduce sexual reoffending. The release of a notorious sex offender from prison strikes fear into members of the public. Media coverage often provokes further panic, casting such offenders as irredeemable monsters and ticking time ...
Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament
1st Edition
By Alexei Anisin
May 31, 2023
Mass Shootings and Civilian Armament provides the first comprehensive multi-methodological analysis of the relationship between mass shootings and firearm purchases (as proxied by background checks) in the US on national level data from 1999-2020. Since 1994, the number of civilian-owned firearms ...