Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide
1st Edition
By Kristen Discola
May 30, 2022
Offering insights based on years of original research, Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion: An Exploration of Forgiveness after Loss Due to Homicide investigates the ideas and experiences of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide (co-victims) in order to advance our understanding of ...
Crime and Fear in Public Places: Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
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By Vania Ceccato, Mahesh Nalla
May 06, 2022
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public ...
Gendered Responses to Male Offending in Barbados: Patriarchal Perceptions and Their Effect on Offender Treatment
1st Edition
By Corin Bailey
May 06, 2022
It is generally accepted that men commit more crimes than women. The widespread acceptance of this view is based primarily on the number of convictions with most jurisdictions reporting considerably fewer incarcerated women/girls than men/boys. This manuscript argues however that decisions made by ...
Criminalization of Activism: Historical, Present and Future Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Valeria Weis
December 23, 2021
Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and the Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization over time. Contributors include scholars and activists from different disciplinary backgrounds, with a...
Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios
1st Edition
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By Tom Decorte, Simon Lenton, Chris Wilkins
September 30, 2021
Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the world. Over the past couple of decades, several Western jurisdictions have seen reforms in, or changes to, the way cannabis use is being controlled, departing from traditional approaches of criminal prohibition that have dominated cannabis use ...
Female Capital Punishment: From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition in Connecticut
1st Edition
By Lawrence B. Goodheart
August 30, 2021
This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries. Using Connecticut as an essential case study, due to its long history as a colony and a state, this study is the first of its ...
Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
1st Edition
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By Anita Lavorgna, Anna Di Ronco
June 30, 2021
Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approachesdeveloped outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due tothe commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a fundamental role in the riseof false ‘health experts’, and in the ...
The Human Factor of Cybercrime
1st Edition
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By Rutger Leukfeldt, Thomas J. Holt
June 30, 2021
Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal ...
Changing Narratives of Youth Crime: From Social Causes to Threats to the Social
1st Edition
By Bernd Dollinger
March 31, 2021
In recent years, western societies have experienced a fundamental transformation in the way crime is understood and dealt with. Against the backdrop of a current great interest in narratives in criminology, this book draws on a narrative perspective to explore this transformation.Drawing on data ...
Deviance Among Physicians: Fraud, Violence, and the Power to Prescribe
1st Edition
By Thaddeus L. Johnson, Natasha N. Johnson, Christina Policastro
March 31, 2021
The concept of deviance is complex, given that norms vary considerably across groups, times, and places. Society tends to primarily recognize traditional portraits of deviants such as street-offenders and drug addicts. The label "deviant" is commonly cast upon society’s undesirables, but this ...
Digital Piracy: A Global, Multidisciplinary Account
1st Edition
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By Steven Caldwell Brown, Thomas J. Holt
March 31, 2021
Non-Commercial digital piracy has seen an unprecedented rise in the wake of the digital revolution; with wide-scale downloading and sharing of copyrighted media online, often committed by otherwise law-abiding citizens. Bringing together perspectives from criminology, psychology, business, and ...
Offender and Victim Networks in Human Trafficking
1st Edition
By Ella Cockbain
March 31, 2021
Millions of pounds are spent every year trying to tackle human trafficking, modern slavery and child sexual exploitation. These are apparently threats perpetrated by ‘criminal masterminds’, spreading at a dizzying rate and approaching epidemic proportions – or so the story goes. Amid all the bold ...