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  • Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice

    This fourth edition of the essential volume Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice interrogates the relationship between sex, gender, crime and criminal justice as seen through the eyes of feminist perspectives and masculinity studies.Centring critical concerns about the dominance of Northern theorising in criminology and victimology, this edition examines implications for both men and women in ... Read more

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  • Murder

    Series series Crime and Society Series
    This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation. It incorporates a historical perspective which both provides some ... Read more

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  • Criminology

    The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    The fourth edition of Criminology: The Basics has been fully revised and updated to offer an engaging and concise introduction to the main themes and concerns of this compelling and complex subject and gives an overview of the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to crime and justice. Topics covered include:• the history and development of criminology,• myths about crime and offenders,• the ... Read more

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  • Towards a Global Femicide Index

    Counting the Costs

    Series series Criminology in Focus
    Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of women’s deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as ‘Counting Dead Women’ in Australia, the ‘Femicide Census’ in England, the Canadian Femicide Observatory, and the emergence of family violence death review teams globally, build on the work of agencies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, ... Read more

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  • Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance?

    Managing Crime in High Crime Areas

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this volume presents arguments which compare two inner-city wards of Salford and look to introduce such a subtlety to the understanding of the management of crime in high crime communities and derive from a longitudinal research study which took place over a two and a half year period. Between 1994 and 1996, researchers based at the University of Salford and the University ... Read more

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  • Contradictions of Terrorism

    Security, risk and resilience

    Series series New Directions in Critical Criminology
    Over the last fifteen years there has been a significant growth in literature dealing with terrorism. Nevertheless, scholars within mainstream criminology have only recently begun to grapple with the problem of terrorism in a sustained fashion. In this provocative book the authors provide both an exposition of the contradictions that have emerged around the regulation of terrorism and an incisive ... Read more

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  • The Criminalization of Violence Against Women

    Comparative Perspectives

    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women's rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the ... Read more

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  • Victimology (Routledge Revivals)

    The Victim and the Criminal Justice Process

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular. The study of victims of crime is important to academics, the wider community of policy initiation and implementation, and to the political arena. Sandra Walklate examines the ... Read more

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  • Coercive Control

    Series series Criminology in Focus
    This book offers a critical appreciation of the nature and impact of coercive control in interpersonal relationships. It examines what this concept means, who is impacted by the behaviours it captures, and how academics, policymakers, and policy advocates have responded to the increasing recognition of the deleterious effects that coercive control has on especially women’s lives.The book discusses ... Read more

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  • Femicide

    Problems, Possibilities, and Prevention

    Series series Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change
    Femicide – the killing of women and girls – has gained increasing prominence on global and national agendas since the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, amongst others, started to respond to femicide as an issue of global concern. This edited collection explores the nature and extent of femicide, from intimate partner femicide to its connections with women’s suicide, and the ... Read more

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  • What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women?

    Gendered Violence(s) in the Twenty-first Century

    This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years. In 2018, the United Nations declared the home the most dangerous place for women around the word, and in early April 2020, the United Nations Population Fund predicted that for every three months that government-enforced lockdowns in ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Victims’ Access to Justice

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Pamela Cox, Sandra Walklate ...
    Series series Victims, Culture and Society
    Why have many victim-centred policy initiatives met with so little success? How have those initiatives unfolded differently in different global jurisdictions over different periods of time? This book aims to address these questions.Building on a major research project exploring victims’ access to justice over time and place, Victims' Access to Justice considers the potentialities for victims’ ... Read more

    $60.99 USD