Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Oppressed by Debt: Government and the Justice System as a Creditor of the Poor
1st Edition
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By Saul Schwartz
May 31, 2023
This edited collection brings together essays that explore personal debts to government. Intensive collection efforts by governments in need of revenue often cause hardship, whether it is the poor in the United States going to jail because of unpaid fines, low-income English people being evicted ...
Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Gurian
May 31, 2023
This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of the offenders. Criminal homicide and multiple...
Technology and Domestic and Family Violence: Victimisation, Perpetration and Responses
1st Edition
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By Bridget Harris, Delanie Woodlock
January 30, 2023
This book brings together academics and advocates to explore an emerging issue: the use of technology by perpetrators of domestic and family violence. Of interest too is critique of government and non-government activities in this arena and how technology can be harnessed to respond to harm. ...
Child Protection in the Church: An Anglican Case Study
1st Edition
By Michael A. Guerzoni
January 09, 2023
Child Protection in the Church investigates whether, amidst publicised promises of change from church institutions and the introduction of “safe church” policies and procedures, reform is actually occurring within Christian churches towards safeguarding, using a case study of the Anglican Diocese ...
Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Rachel Killean, Eithne Dowds, Anne-Marie McAlinden
January 09, 2023
Sexual Violence on Trial provides a contemporary critical examination of the investigation, prosecution and cultural contexts of sexual violence. It draws on Northern Ireland as a case study, while also drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions across the United Kingdom and island of Ireland....
The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care: Multi-Agency Perspectives
1st Edition
By Julie Shaw, Sarah Greenhow
January 09, 2023
The Criminalisation and Exploitation of Children in Care explores the results of a recent qualitative study, which focused on multi-agency responses to children and young people in residential and foster care who were at risk of criminalisation and/or exploitation and abuse. Recent high-profile ...
Crime, Criminal Justice and Religion: A Critical Appraisal
1st Edition
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By Philip Birch, Conor Murray, Andrew McInnes
December 30, 2022
Crime, Criminal Justice and Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and a contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion. Offering unique perspectives that consider the impact on modern-day policy...
Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility
1st Edition
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By Nina Peršak, Anna Di Ronco
December 19, 2022
Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other. Progressive urbanisation not only influences people’s living conditions, their well-being and ...
Immigration and School Safety
1st Edition
By Anthony A. Peguero, Jennifer M. Bondy
September 26, 2022
Immigration and School Safety utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to expose the complex relationship between immigration and school safety in the United States. It addresses not only individual, intrapersonal, and environmental factors but also distant-level conditions that are relevant to the ...
The Intersections of Family Violence and Sexual Offending
1st Edition
By Gemma Hamilton, Patrick Tidmarsh
September 02, 2022
Often examined separately, this timely volume provides a detailed exploration of the nexus between family violence and sexual offending. Recognising family and sexual violence as highly interrelated issues, it uncovers the challenges and paradoxes of addressing them as separate versus coinciding ...
Risk and Harm in Youth Sexting: Young People’s Perspectives
1st Edition
By Emily Setty
June 13, 2022
This book draws upon interviews with teenage young people to explore their perspectives on risk and harm in ‘youth sexting culture’. It focuses specifically on digital sexual image-sharing among young people. It contextualises the findings in terms of the wider literature on youth sexting and the ...
Preventing Sexual Harm: Positive Criminology and Sexual Abuse
1st Edition
By Stephanie Kewley, Sarah Pemberton, Mohammed Rahman
May 30, 2022
Preventing Sexual Harm provides an overview of current criminal justice strategies for tackling sexual violence, and highlights existing positive criminological approaches that could help prevent sexual abuse and harm. Sexual violence is a complex, multi-faceted crime. Its causes and consequences...