Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Collective Violence, Democracy and Protest Policing
1st Edition
By David Mansley
June 08, 2015
In this book David Mansley argues that the frequency with which violence intrudes on to the streets is related to both how society is governed and how it is policed. With the help of an innovative methodology, he quantifies and tests three variables – collective violence, democracy and protest ...
Prostitution in the Community: Attitudes, Action and Resistance
1st Edition
By Sarah Kingston
June 08, 2015
Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in ‘their’ neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and literature has begun to explore prostitution from the ...
Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival
1st Edition
Edited
By Bree Carlton, Marie Segrave
October 28, 2014
Women’s incarceration is on the rise globally and this has significant intergenerational, economic and humanitarian costs for communities across the world. While there have been efforts to implement reform, particularly in countries such as Canada, UK, US and Australia, the growing evidence ...
Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society
1st Edition
By Michael Coyle
August 19, 2014
The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This ...
Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas
1st Edition
By Christopher Birkbeck
May 22, 2014
This study examines the ways in which the moral community is "talked into being" in relation to crime, and the objects of concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the relations between these two groups in the "...
State Crime and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Stanley, Jude McCulloch
April 16, 2014
Within criminology ‘the state’ is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state...
Sex Work: Labour, Mobility and Sexual Services
1st Edition
By JaneMaree Maher, Sharon Pickering, Alison Gerard
February 25, 2014
Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active regulation. Globalisation has increased women’s mobility between developing and developed countries at the same time ...