Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Money and the Governance of Punishment: A Genealogy of the Penal Fine
1st Edition
By Patricia Cabana
March 05, 2019
Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions, imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and in some jurisdictions many of those in prison ...
Caribbean Crime and Criminal Justice: Impacts of Post-colonialism and Gender
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharina Joosen, Corin Bailey
February 04, 2019
Despite high crime rates among men in the Caribbean, rising rates of violence against women in the region, and a significant number of Caribbean nationals incarcerated abroad due to drug smuggling, existing research has yet to offer explanations that are tailored to the unique Caribbean societies ...
Child Trafficking in the EU: Policing and Protecting Europe’s Most Vulnerable
1st Edition
By Pete Fussey, Paddy Rawlinson
February 04, 2019
Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the ‘who’ and ‘how’ we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt, childhood, and of the status of ‘deserving’ ...
Gender, Technology and Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Segrave, Laura Vitis
February 04, 2019
Technological developments move at lightening pace and can bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings together original empirical and theoretical work examining how digital technologies both create and sustain various forms of gendered violence and provide platforms for ...
The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody: Circles of Support and Accountability
1st Edition
By David Thompson, Terry Thomas
February 04, 2019
Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself, which may be both...
Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections
1st Edition
By Rose Ricciardelli, Dale C. Spencer
February 04, 2019
Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and punishments beyond imprisonment, including sex offender registries, chemical and surgical castration, and global positioning electronic monitoring systems. While aspects of their experiences of ...
Homicide, Gender and Responsibility: An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate
August 14, 2018
The crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention. The discussion has often centered on the perceived (in)adequacy of legal responses to homicide, questions of culpability, and divergent representations of victims and offenders. Within this, notions ...
Order and Conflict in Public Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Mattias De Backer, Lucas Melgaço, Georgiana Varna, Francesca Menichelli
February 12, 2018
Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant negotiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management, use, and transgression of public space to ...
Organised Crime in European Businesses
1st Edition
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By Ernesto Savona, Michele Riccardi, Giulia Berlusconi
February 06, 2018
The infiltration of organised crime in the legitimate economy has emerged as a transnational phenomenon. This book constitutes an unprecedented study of the involvement of criminal groups in the legitimate economy and their infiltration in legal businesses, and is the first to bridge the research ...
Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities
1st Edition
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By Nina Persak
February 06, 2018
The increasing trend and prevalence of incivilities-targeting punitive regulatory measures across Europe raises important issues regarding the legitimacy, effectiveness and impact of such formal social control. Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities addresses the pertinent issues of current ...
Policing, Port Security and Crime Control: An Ethnography of the Port Securityscape
1st Edition
By Yarin Eski
January 15, 2018
Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global trade. The protection of this global supply chain from crime and terrorism is a fundamental objective of port security, and is a landscape beset by new challenges and changes post 9/11. Building on ...
Rural Crime and Community Safety
1st Edition
By Vania Ceccato
April 27, 2017
Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of the community dynamics in such areas. Rural ...