Causes and prevention of crime Books

Book SynopsisThe symposium Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom held in Reinhausen, 2002, formed the basis of this publication. Occasioned by the social, political and mass media discourses after the bombings of New York''s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, an interdisciplinary group of scholars came together to explore the connotations and implications of the term sleeper. The biographies of terrorist perpetrators are but one of many permutations of sleeper-like phenomena in late modern polities. Clandestine operatives of the state are sleepers, and both willing and unwilling victims of terrorism are discursively transformed from sleepers into martyrs. Starting with analyses of the discourses about sleepers in Part I-their historical antecedents, narrative employment, and semantic differentiation-Part II turns to the hidden or unspoken of aspects of the state, the challenge of fundamentalist terrorism to the modern political project and the tensions between neighbourly discourse, public display and the state. Part III juxtaposes changing depictions of Shiite martyrdom with the violence done to the term martyr within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Part IV, cultural secrets encoded in memorials and public silences in academic discourse are addressed. The different cases assembled offer comparative materials and perspectives from the USA, France, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Iran, Israel, Istria and Sweden.

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Book SynopsisMost Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum continue to campaign on law and order platforms and to propose three strikes--and even two strikes--sentencing laws. Why is this the case? How have crime, drugs, and delinquency come to be such salient political issues, and why have enhanced punishment and social control been defined as the most appropriate responses to these complex social problems? Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics provides original, fascinating, and persuasive answers to these questions. According to conventional wisdom, the worsening of the crime and drug problems has led the public to become more punitive, and tough anti-crime policies are politicians'' collective response to this popular sentiment. Katherine Beckett challenges this interpretation, arguing instead that the origins of the punitive shift in crime control policy lie in the political rather than the penal realm--particularly in the tumultuous period of the 1960s.Trade Review...well-written, sharply focused....provides a useful perspective on an immensely consequential issue. * Choice *...Beckett does an excellent job deconstructing the politics of crime policy in this country. * The ICCA Review of Books *Beckett immerses herself in the political, social, historical, and discursive context of crime contol in America. The result is an excellent example of how interdisciplinary research can enhance our understanding of complex social phenomena. * Journal of Criminal Justice *Table of Contents1. Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics ; 2. Setting the Public Agenda ; 3. Creating the Crime Issue ; 4. From Crime to Drugs-and Back Again ; 5. Crime and Drugs in the News ; 6. Crime and Punishment in American Political Culture ; 7. Institutionalizing Law and Order ; 8. Reconceptualizing the Crime Problem

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Book SynopsisAcross America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal? In this startlingly original work, Jonathan Simon traces this pattern back to the collapse of the New Deal approach to governing during the 1960s when declining confidence in expert-guided government policies sent political leaders searching for new models of governance. The War on Crime offered a ready solution to their problem: politicians Trade ReviewSimon has put together an unremitting wealth of detail concerning institutional, cultural and private life-world changes. * Rebecca Pates, Akademie Verlag *Table of ContentsIntroduction Crime and American Governance ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy--early prevention--that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus whaTrade Review"Well researched and well reasoned, pragmatic and clearly written: A call to action grounded in science. This book should guide the creation of a national strategy for preventing crime before it starts."--J. David Hawkins, Endowed Professor of Prevention, University of Washington"The current willingness to allow at-risk children to develop unimpeded into serious, chronic offenders represents an inexcusable policy failure and threat to public safety. Farrington and Welsh balance this "bad news" with invaluable "good news": there is a growing body of evidence-based practices that "work" to save troubled youngsters. Their scholarly but accessible analysis makes a compelling case that the knowledge now exists to construct a national system for early intervention. Perhaps more important, Saving Children from a Life of Crime has the power to inspire in its readers the political will to make this ambitious vision a reality. Let the reading begin!"--Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of CincinnatiTable of ContentsJames Q. Wilson: Foreword 1: Introduction: The Need for Early Prevention Part I: Early Risk and Protective Factors 2: Understanding Risk and Protective Factors 3: Individual Factors 4: Family Factors 5: Socioeconomic, Peer, School, and Community Factors Part II: Prevention in the Early Years 6: Understanding Risk-Focused Prevention 7: Individual Prevention 8: Family Prevention 9: Peer, School, and Community Prevention Part III: Toward a National Strategy 10: Never Too Early: A Comprehensive National Prevention Strategy Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on what is probably the most frequently asked question about crime: Why do criminals offend? Renowned criminologist Robert Agnew draws on a broad range of crime theories and the latest research to present a general theory of crime and delinquency, rich with student-accessible examples. The general theory integrates the essential arguments from social learning, social control, self-control, strain, labeling, social support, bio-psychological, and other theories. And it draws on the latest research examining the relationship between crime, individual traits, and the social environment--including family, school, peer, and work environments. Agnew's general theory is concise and written at a level readily accessible to undergraduates. It provides a good sense of the major causes of crime and how they mutually influence and interact with one another to affect crime. Key points are illustrated with examples from qualitative and quantitative research, and each chapter endsTrade ReviewThis is a brilliant integrative book.... [It is] an outstanding contribution to criminological theory and knowledge.... The writing style is excellent: clear, interesting, and informative. * David Farrington, University of Cambridge *This book is a major contribution to the discipline.... Extremely well written and engaging. * Alex R. Piquero, University of Florida *This is an outstanding book. It is logical in its organization, clearly articulated, empirically informed, and brilliant in its depth of scholarship.... This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the study of crime and criminals. * John Wright, University of Cincinnati^ *Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION: A GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY; 2. CRIME IS MOST LIKELY WHEN THE CONSTRAINTS AGAINST CRIME ARE LOW AND THE MOTIVATIONS FOR CRIME ARE HIGH; 3. A RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL VARIABLES AFFECT THE CONSTRAINTS; 4. THE WEB OF CRIME: THE LIFE DOMAINS AFFECT ONE ANOTHER, ALTHOUGH SOME EFFECTS ARE STRONGER THAN OTHERS; 5. CRIME AFFECTS ITS 'CAUSES' AND PRIOR CRIME AFFECTS SUBSEQUENT CRIME; 6. THE CAUSES OF CRIME INTERACT IN AFFECTING CRIME AND ONE ANOTHER; 7. THE CAUSES TEND TO HAVE CONTEMPORANEOUS AND NONLINEAR EFFECTS ON CRIME AND ONE ANOTHER; 8. THE LIFE DOMAINS ARE INFLUENCED BY A RANGE OF OUTSIDE FACTORS, INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; 9. USING THE GENERAL THEORY TO EXPLAIN GROUP DIFFERENCES IN CRIME; 10. TESTING THE GENERAL THEORY; 11. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONTROLLING CRIME; 12. THE GENERAL THEORY AS AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF CRIME; CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisPressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory by Robert Agnew provides an overview of general strain theory (GST), one of the leading explanations of crime and delinquency, developed by author Robert Agnew. Written to be student-friendly, Pressured Into Crime features numerous real-world examples, insightful and colorful quotes from former and active criminals, clear summaries of major points, and challenging review and discussion questions at the end of each chapter. This book provides the following:* It compares and contrasts GST to other leading theories of crime, including biopsychological, control, social learning, routine activities, and social disorganization theories (presenting brief descriptions of these theories). * It describes the evidence on GST, including the most current research on the types of strains most likely to cause crime, why these strains cause crime, and the factors that influence the effects of strains on crime. * It employs GST to explainTrade ReviewPressured Into Crime presents a compelling case that strain is intimately implicated in criminal behavior. Conceptually sophisticated and with a strong fidelity to empirical research, this volume is an exemplar in criminological theorizing. Indeed, Robert Agnew has crafted a classic contribution that no scholar can afford to ignore and that will be ideal reading in a range of criminology courses. * Francis T. Cullen, University of Cincinnati, and Past President, American Society of Criminology *Table of Contents1. Why Do Individuals Engage in Crime? ; 2. Why Do Strains Increase the Likelihood of Crime? ; 3. What Types of Strains Are Most Likely To Cause Crime? ; 4. Why Are Some Individuals More Likely Than Others To Respond to Strains With Crime? ; 5. How Does General Strain Theory Explain Patterns of Offending Over the Life Course? ; 6. How Does General Strain Theory Explain Gender, Class, and Race/Ethnic Differences in Offending? ; 7. How Does General Strain Theory Explain Community and Societal Differences in Offending? ; 8. What Recommendations Does General Strain Theory Make for Reducing Crime? ; 9. An Overview of General Strain Theory

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Book SynopsisAfter decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy - early prevention - that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus Trade ReviewInternationally recognized author Farrington (Cambridge) and US criminologist Welsh (Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell) have applied a psychological theoretical perspective and "gold standard" experimental methodology to delinquency programs....Recommended. * CHOICE *[T]hese two prominent criminologists have written a book on one of social science's most important matters, and one that embodies the essence of good science: the development and articulation of good ideas, a solid discussion of theory and research, and appropriate policy proscriptions that are accessible and relevant to academics, policy-makers, and lay persons. * Journal of Youth & Adolescence *Overall, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is an insightful and useful text. This book's main strength is that it is a 'one-stop shop' for everything we need to know about risk factors for delinquency and effective early prevention programmes. It is very well researched and the information is both up-to-date and trustworthy. * British Journal of Criminology *The current willingness to allow at-risk children to develop unimpeded into serious, chronic offenders represents an inexcusable policy failure and threat to public safety. Farrington and Welsh balance this "bad news" with invaluable "good news": there is a growing body of evidence-based practices that "work" to save troubled youngsters. Their scholarly but accessible analysis makes a compelling case that the knowledge now exists to construct a national system for early intervention. Perhaps more important, Saving Children from a Life of Crime has the power to inspire in its readers the political will to make this ambitious vision a reality. Let the reading begin! * Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati *Well researched and well reasoned, pragmatic and clearly written: A call to action grounded in science. This book should guide the creation of a national strategy for preventing crime before it starts. * J. David Hawkins, Endowed Professor of Prevention, School of Social Work, University of Washington *This volume has essential, well-summarized information for decision makers, policy officials, and practitioners interested in designing and evaluating programs to reduce juvenile delinquency. Based on a sweeping survey of the scientific evidence for risk and protective factors, the expert authors succinctly indicate which programs have the highest efficacy in preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency and which programs more than pay for themselves. This volume is the most convincing and the most practical of all the books on reducing juvenile delinquency published over the past decades. * Rolf Loeber, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh *Farrington and Welsh have produced a timely and important work for all self-respecting democracies. Every careful student of human development since Plato understands that preventing crime as a way of life starts at conception. Farrington and Welsh offer the up-to-date knowledge needed to change outdated policies. We cannot afford to continue to lock up offenders as if we were still in the early 19th century. Giving support to at-risk families and children is the only rational and humane way of dealing with crime as a way of life. This book should be mandatory for all social science students and policy makers. * Richard E. Tremblay, Chair of Child Development, University of Montreal *Table of ContentsPART I: EARLY RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS; PART II: PREVENTION IN THE EARLY YEARS; PART III: TOWARD A NATIONAL STRATEGY

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Book SynopsisAcross America today, gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal? In this startlingly original work, Jonathan Simon traces this pattern back to the collapse of the New Deal approach to governing during the 1960s when declining confidence in expert-guided government policies sent political leaders searching for new models of governance. The War on Crime offered a ready solution to their problem: politicianTrade Review"Ambitious and carefully reasoned... thought-provoking... argues that what sociologists are calling "mass imprisonment" (because such a large portion of the population is now involved) signals not only a new approach to managing crime, but to managing society... The most innovative sections of his book, however, outline how an increasingly insular, risk averse, and punitive social ethic has reshaped not only how the other half lives but how the top half does as well."--Boston Review "Every thoughtful citizen should confront the arguments that are so lucidly presented in this book. Highly recommended." --CHOICE "In Governing through Crime, Jonathan Simon powerfully and persuasively argues that America's obsession with crime has touched, indeed distorted, the fundamental building blocks of our democratic society. According to this sweeping analysis, our conception of the centrality of crime in American life has redefined the powers of government, the role of families and schools, and the place of the individual in society. This disturbing and provocative treatise should command the attention of scholars, opinion leaders, and policymakers who aspire to create a more tolerant and open future for this country."--Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice "For historians, this book will one day be a valuable primary source."--Law and History Review "Distinguished legal scholar Jonathan Simon here challenges us to confront the consequences for liberal democracy of the move in the U.S. towards the exercise of ever more executive authority--from the presidency and the institutions of state through schools and families. Governing through Crime, argues Simon with unrelenting cogency, is a response to risk and fear spun out of control, a response that erodes social trust and, with it, the very scaffolding of a 'free' society. An invaluable addition to the literature in critical criminology, this is a volume that ought to be read by anyone who seeks to understand the present and future of governance in the USA--and elsewhere."--John Comaroff, Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago "Jonathan Simon has pioneered a new approach to the study of the politics of crime control, and this book should confirm his place as one of the outstanding criminologists of his generation. Governing through Crime, is a major contribution and deserves to make an impact throughout the social and political sciences."--Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science "This is an impressive work. The book's great strength is its integration of a wide range of research on political science, law, and sociology, with journalistic accounts of current and recent politics. Topics from mass imprisonment, school "zero tolerance" policies, and the shortcomings of the Supreme Court in achieving the goals of Brown v. Board of Education have all been written about extensively. But I know of no other work that so effectively uncovers ways that these issues are connected to a changing relationship between citizens and their government."--The Law and Politics Book Review "What makes Simon's work stand out is his treatment of how the government's configuration of the crime problem, with its strong emphasis on 'personal responsibility and will over social context' (p.25) and its penchant for punishment of individuals, has penetrated other institutional spheres of American life, notably work, school, and family life... His book stands out as the most important and most readable treatment to date on the overreach of crime and our emergence, in part, as a society gripped by the language of crime and the technologies of criminal justice."--Political Science Quarterly "Simon's main focus is diagnostic, not prescriptive. He does not propose a detailed blueprint to end governing through crime, but rather suggests some guideposts."--Law & Social InquiryTable of Contents1. Power, Authority, and the Criminal Law ; 2. "Prosecutor-in-chief": Executive Authority since the War on Crime ; 3. We the Victims: Fearing Crime and Making Law ; 4. Judgment and Distrust: The Jurisprudence of Crime and the Decline of Judicial Governance ; 5. Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment ; 5. Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment ; 5. Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment ; 6. Crime Families: Governing Domestic Relations Through Crime ; 7. Safe Schools: Reforming Education Through Crime ; 8. Penalty Box: Crime, Victimization, and Punishment in the Deregulated Workplace ; 9. Wars of Governance: From Cancer to Crime to Terror

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Book SynopsisIn the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often perceived solely as an urban issue, street gangs are also a suburban and rural dilemma. Klein and Maxson focus on gang proliferation, migration, and crime patterns, and highlight known risk factors that lead to youths form and join gangs within communities. Dispelling the long-standing assumptions that the public, the media, and law enforcement have about street gangs, they present a comprehensive overview of how gangs are organized and structured. The authors assess the major gang programs across the nation and argue that existing prevention, intervention, and suppression methods targeting individTrade Review"This is an important book. Malcolm Klein and Cheryl Maxson here draw upon their own rich and pioneering research experience and that of others to provide the most comprehensive review of what is known and what needs to be known about gangs and their control in community contexts. I stand in awe of their accomplishment."--James F. Short, Jr., Past President of the American Sociological Association "The need to intervene successfully with street gangs is self-evident; unfortunately the way to do so is not. Klein and Maxson, based on a masterful review of the empirical literature on gangs and on gang intervention efforts, lay out a balanced and comprehensive strategy for confronting this problem head-on. Neither falsely optimistic nor unnecessarily gloomy, they provide a road map that, if followed, will yield substantial progress in our fight against gangs."--Terence P. Thornberry, Director, Research Program on Problem Behavior, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Welcome to gangland UK My goodness, how things have changed Themes So what is this all about? Part I: Gangland Claims and Gangland Realities 1. Gangs, Weapons and Violence 2.The Fists and the Fury: My Life in a Sea of Gangs Part II: On Gang Talk and Gang-Talkers 3. Deciphering Gang Talk Defining gang talk Reading gang talk as a language game The seduction of gang talk Unforeseen consequences Conclusion 4. Moral Panic and Industry Emergence From reality to gang-talking fantasy: reflections on the media inventory The journey back: reshaping reality in the image of gang fantasies The industrial logic of 'gang' production Conclusion Part III: Getting Real about Violence 5. Arborealism and Rhizomatics: A Treatise The sedentary and the nomadic Arborealism Rhizomatics Back to the street Reading the street as rhizome Rhizomatic organisation Conclusion 6. Back to the Street Beyond the gang Street imperatives Instability, trauma and street life Conclusion 7. Continuities and DiscontTrade Review"The 'gang' has become a magical word used to explain away crime, riots, sexual assault, drug dealing and almost every manifestation of violence in our society. Simon Hallsworth's book is a devastating critique: iconoclastic, hard hitting, and amusing. Read it." - Jock Young, John Jay College, City University of New York, USA and author of The Criminological Imagination "Simon Hallsworth's The Gang and Beyond is precisely the sort of boldly brilliant work that criminology badly needs but seldom sees. Strikingly original in its scholarly perspective and in its narrative orientation, this book constitutes an intellectually audacious confrontation with gangs, gang scholarship, and the assumptions that surround them." - Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, USA "Provocative and stimulating, this book provides an emphatic critique of the 'common sense' surrounding youth gangs in the UK and elsewhere. From auto-ethnography to moral outrage at gang talk distortions, Simon Hallsworth provides a personal and powerful indictment of the gang industry within academia, including its convergence with rapidly expanding and inappropriate gang suppression efforts, and its failure to fully understand street culture and street violence. Not to be missed." - Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia "This book is methodologically creative (e.g. the auto-ethnography), theoretically sophisticated (e.g. the use of Deleuze), and mostly uses good humour to good effect [...] I think it is a must read, it makes an important contribution and I am adding it to my reading list for my students." - Lorcan Byrne, CrimeTalk "This is a timely book. It is bold, contentious, provocative and provides a much needed commentary on the current state of affairs in relation to our understanding of and responses to gangs in the United Kingdom ... Whether you are a 'gang talker' or a 'gang denier', Hallsworth presents a compelling and in parts, acerbic analysis of urban street gangs." - Hannah Smithson, British Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsIntroduction Welcome to gangland UK My goodness, how things have changed Themes So what is this all about? Part I: Gangland Claims and Gangland Realities 1. Gangs, Weapons and Violence 2.The Fists and the Fury: My Life in a Sea of Gangs Part II: On Gang Talk and Gang-Talkers 3. Deciphering Gang Talk Defining gang talk Reading gang talk as a language game The seduction of gang talk Unforeseen consequences Conclusion 4. Moral Panic and Industry Emergence From reality to gang-talking fantasy: reflections on the media inventory The journey back: reshaping reality in the image of gang fantasies The industrial logic of 'gang' production Conclusion Part III: Getting Real about Violence 5. Arborealism and Rhizomatics: A Treatise The sedentary and the nomadic Arborealism Rhizomatics Back to the street Reading the street as rhizome Rhizomatic organisation Conclusion 6. Back to the Street Beyond the gang Street imperatives Instability, trauma and street life Conclusion 7. Continuities and Discontinuities in Urban Violence Street violence in the postwar period Continuities Discontinuities: on neoliberalism and its consequences Conclusion How to have a gang problem Koyaanisqutsi

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Book SynopsisThe use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we unthinkingly accept that increased surveillance is in the public's best interests, or does this mean that ‘Big Brother' is finally watching us? This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. Is crime control the principal motivation behind increased surveillance or are the reasons more complex? Does surveillance violate peoples' right of privacy? Who gets surveilled and why? What are its implications for social control? Does surveillance actually reduce crime? What will developments in technology mean for the future of surveillance? What rights do individuals under surveillance have? How is the information gathered through CCTV used by the authorities?Based on extensive fieldwork on automated surveillance in Britain over a two-year period, this book not only attempts to answer these vexing questions, but also provides a wealth of detailed information about the reasoning behind and effects of social control.Trade Review'No one can miss the cameras; they're on the main roads, in the city streets, and in the stores. You can, however, mistake their meaning. The Maximum Surveillance Society offers a clear and nuanced reading of the social and political trends revealed in the recent rush to install CCTV cameras. With a wealth of day-to-day detail, and a sensitive use of theory, this book displays the grounded scholarly imagination at its best.Avoiding both alarmism and complacency, the authors provide a timely analysis that demands widespread attention.'David Lyon, Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario'[A] landmark study.' The Big Issue'In this timely book, Norris and Armstrong address intriguing questions about the role of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillence in contemporary society ... Pulling back the curtain to expose both the inside of the control room and the political machine that promotes the growth of CCTV, the book provides a fresh perspective onTable of ContentsPart I: Images of Social Control, Introduction: Visions of Surveillance, A History of Photographic Surveillance and the Rise of CCTV, The Ever Present Gaze: CCTV Surveillance in Britain, The Selling of CCTV: Political and Media Discourses Part II: The Unforgiving Eye, Introduction: Watching the Watchers - Theory and Method, The Watchers and the Watched: The Social Structuring of Surveillance, Working Rules and the Social Construction of Suspicion, Communications and Consequences, From Images to Action: From the Control Room to the Street, Part III: Seeing the Future, Towards the Maximum Surveillance Society

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Book SynopsisThis work examines the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour. It contains the stories of inmates' schooldays told in their own words as they try to answer the question "could anything have been done to prevent you being in custody now?" The book ends with suggestions on action schools might take towards redressing social, cultural and educational disadvantage and intervening to help limit future offending behaviour.Trade Review'If you are in any doubt about the links between poor education, crime and recidivism, read it':Marcel Berlins The Guardian.'This book is of considerable public importance on a subject which calls for attention. I believe that in prison life the status of education needs to be raised for the high percentage of offenders who have failed at school and come from broken families, and are soon to be discharged into the community':Sir Stephen Tumim, former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

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Book SynopsisGeese Theatre UK was formed in 1987 and is renowned across the criminal justice field. Members of the company devise and perform issue-based plays and conduct workshops and training in prisons, young offender institutions, probation centres and related settings. The company has worked in virtually every prison and each probation area in the UK and Ireland - and also works with youth offending teams. The "Geese Theatre Handbook" explains the thinking behind the company's approach to applied drama with offenders and people at risk of offending, including young people. It also contains over 100 exercises with explanations, instructions and suggestions to help practitioners develop their own style and approach. The materials can be readily adapted to other settings including conflict resolution, restorative justice and interpersonal skills training.The handbook is a key resource for: Offending behaviour groupworkers; Probation officers; Youth workers; Youth offending teams; Prison officers; Social workers; Criminologists; Community workers; Forensic psychologists; Psychotherapists; Community theatre workers and actors; Drama teachers; Drama-in-education and theatre-in-education practitioners; Drama therapists and other creative arts therapists; Adventure therapists; Group and individual therapists and counsellors; Mental health professionals; Psychodramatists; Sociodramatists; Professional team builders; Team supervisors; Family therapists; Staff training and development officers; Conflict resolution workers; And special needs workers and teachers.Trade Review'A generous book [which] provides a treasure chest of games and exercise for any group setting ... a wealth of food for thought ... for trainers of all kinds ... an invaluable addition to the Waterside list'Criminal Justice Matters'An invaluable resource'Prison Service News'Fascinating ... Excellent ... If you're involved with offenders or other risk groups, buy it'The Magistrate'An absolute treasure trove for people who work with groups - in mental health, schools, training, social work - wherever'Mental Health Today

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Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band vereint aktuelle, interdisziplinäre Forschungen, welche sich im Kern mit dem Handeln der Polizei als soziales Phänomen beschäftigen. In diesem Zusammenhang greifen die Autoren/innen auch Fragen nach den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen polizeilichen Handelns sowie Einflüssen polizeilicher Praktiken auf Ausgestaltungen des Rechts auf. Ziel des Buches ist es, einen breiten Überblick über die hiesige, im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern immer noch recht rudimentär aufgestellte Polizeiforschung zu geben. Die Zusammenstellung praxisorientierter Perspektiven verfolgt dabei auch den Zweck, einen Baustein für eine Theorie der Praxis der Polizei zu liefern. Table of ContentsKontrolle und Informationsbeschaffung.- Vorfeldverlagerung.- Gewalterfahrungen und Gewaltanwendung.- Praktiken polizeilichen Handelns.

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Book SynopsisDespite twenty years of research, it is still debated whether drug dependency leads to crime, or whether involvement in crime increases the probability of drug dependency. This is because the relationship between drugs and crime is mediated by a great many variables, including the nature of the drugs, the user''s degree of dependency on drugs, the life circumstances of the user, the social conditions under which the drugs are used, the laws governing obtaining and using drugs, social tolerance of drug use, availability of drug treatment programs, and so forth. This volume covers the many ways in which drugs and crime could be related that encompass and extend beyond the simple causal link between drug dependency and crime. It also reviews the main kinds of drug-related crimes and considers research that could help viable policy interventions.Trade Review’offers a panoramic overview of the broad arena of drugs and crime. The overview is at once comprehensive and contemporary...a great easy reference for seasoned researchers and a useful overview for neophyte drugs and crime researchers. Indeed, one of the fundamental contributions of the volume is that it provides students and scholars with a way to conceptualise and compartmentalise the enormous research literature on drugs and crime.’ Drug and Alcohol Review, APSADTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Drugs-Crime Connection: 1. Drug Abuse and Crime: Drugs and crime revisited, Scott Menard, Sharon Mihalic and David Huizinga; Addiction careers and criminal specialization, David Farabee, Vandana Joshi and M. Douglas Anglin; The relationship between drug use and crime: a puzzle inside an enigma, Mark Simpson; The association between multiple drug misuse and crime, Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway; The 3-metros study of drugs and crime in South Africa: findings and policy implications, Charles D.H. Parry, Andreas Plüddemann, Antoinette Louw and Ted Leggett. 2. Drug Abuse and Juvenile Delinquency: Testing a longitudinal model of the relationships among high risk youths' drug sales, drug use and participation in index crimes, Richard Dembo, Werner Wothke, William Seeberger, Marina Shemwell, Kimberly Pacheco, Matthew Rollie, James Schmeidler, Stephen Livingston and Amy Hartsfield; Antisocial behavior among young Australians while under the influence of illicit drugs, Ian McAllister and Toni Makkai; The effects of substance use on specific types of criminal offending in young men, John W. Welte, Lening Zhang and William F. Wieczorek; Aggressive behavior and opportunities to purchase drugs, Marsha F. Rosenberg and James C. Anthony. 3. Drug Abuse, Violence and Victimization: Methamphetamine use, self-reported violent crime and recidivism among offenders in California who abuse substances, Jerome Cartier, David Farabee and Michael L. Prendergast; ’Drug abuse and partner volence among women in methadone treatment, Nabila El-Bassel, Louisa Gilbert, Robert Schilling and Takeshi Wada; A 2-year longitudinal analysis of the relationships between violent assault and substance use in women, Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ron Acierno, Heidi S. Resnick, Benjamin E. Saunders and Connie L. Best; Sex work and drug use in a subculture of violence, Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi, Stephen P. Kurtz and Marion C. Kiley. Part II Drug Crimes: 1. Drug Trafficking

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Book SynopsisIn terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.3 billion in 2007. This ongoing urbanization will continue to create major security challenges in most countries. Based on contributions from academics and practitioners from countries as diverse as Nigeria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and the US, Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives highlights the crime and disorder problems associated with urbanization and demonstrates police and private security responses to those problems.The book draws on the practical experiences of police officials and the academic insights of researchers from around the world to detail the consequences of urbanization â crime, terrorism, disorder, drugs, traffic crashes â as well as modern responses to those problems. Covering studies on major cities in more than 18 countries, this text explores topics such as the role of urbanTrade Review… an intensely academic book, and one that will be read by criminologists interested in policing and crime in other countries. It would be a useful book for any security professional who works internationally or in any of the countries featured.—Ross L. Johnson, CPP., Security ManagementTable of ContentsIntroduction: Policing and Urbanization. URBAN SECURITY PROBLEMS. Urbanization and Crime in Cameroon. .Urbanization and Security in Kampala City, Uganda. Urbanization, Policing, and Safety in Serbia. Urbanization and Security in Russia. Spatial Determinants of Crime in Poland. Drug Problems in Peshawar, Pakistan. Organized Crime in South Africa. Organized Crime and Safety in Azerbaijan. Traffic Administration in Hyderabad, India. Urban Mass Evacuation in the United States. POLICE RESPONSES. Reforming Policing in Victoria, Australia. Urbanization and Community Policing in Nigeria. Policing Multiethnic Societies. Urbanization, Security, and Human Rights. Policing Protests in New York City. Urban Crime and Criminal Investigation in Slovenia. Police Cooperation in International Drug Investigations in North America. Information Sharing between Police and Intelligence Agencies. PRIVATE SECURITY RESPONSES. Public–Private Partnerships in Los Angeles. Post 9/11 Port Security in Houston, Texas. Private Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Private Security in South Africa. Body Guarding in South Africa. Urbanization and Security: Moving Forward, Key Themes, and Challenges. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns. Effective urban planners and designers will consider crime when making planning and design decisions. A co-publication with the American Planning Association, Crime and Planning: Building Socially Sustainable Communities presents a comprehensive discussion of the interconnections between urban planning, criminal victimization, and crime prevention.An introduction into the main concerns at the intersection of criminology and community planning, the book first provides an overview of crime patterns. It then explores major issues within planning and their impact on crime. Critical topics discussed include connectivity, mixed-use developments, land use and zoning, transit-oriented design, and pedestrian trails, greenways, and parks. The remaining chapters explore: CriTable of ContentsIntroduction. Why a Disconnect? Crime, Planning, and Sustainability. Structure of This Book. A Brief Overview of Crime and Crime Issues. Major Issues in Crime and Urban Planning. Redefining Sustainability. Redefining and Refocusing Sustainable Communities. Integrating Crime Prevention into a Socially Sustainable Planning Program. Current Crime Prevention-Planning Programs. Integrating Crime Prevention into the Everyday Planning Process. Tools for Understanding Context. Design Guidance. Planning Policy and Socially Sustainable Communities. Smart Growth. Form-Based Codes. Suburban Retrofitting. Case Studies. Residential Neighborhood Case Study. Retail District Case Study.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe. It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and healthcare challenges. The issues addressed include: - the cultural challenges of combating abuse forms most prevalent in migrant communities such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage; - emerging problems such as child-to-parent violence, teenage relationship violence and digital intimate partner abuse; and- barriers to help-seeking faced by marginalised victims such as LGBTQ and older people. By showcasing the most effective responses formulated in Europe and exploring innovative ways to research and understand domestic violence, this book is a crucial resource for all those with responsibility for implementing social policy and good practice.Trade ReviewA particular strength is the breadth of the collection which includes incisive accounts of research processes, training, policy and service development. The book will provide an invaluable resource for all those who work or study in the field of domestic violence. -- Nicky Stanley, Professor of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. Part I: The policy framework for responding to domestic violence in Europe. 1. Domestic violence - a rights-based response: Drawing on results from the FRA's violence against women survey - Joanna Goodey, Head of the Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna, Austria. 2. Development, coordination and implementation of national strategies for the prevention of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland: Lessons learned and unlearned - Philip McCormack, Cosc - The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, Dublin, Ireland. Part II: Children's experiences of domestic violence. 3. Mother-child relationships in the context of intimate partner violence - Zuzana Ocenasova, Coordination and Methodological Centre for Prevention of Violence against Women, Bratislava, Slovakia and Hana Smitkova, Department of Psychology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 4. Voice, agency power: A framework for young survivors' participation in national domestic abuse policy-making - Claire Houghton, Researcher and Expert Adviser, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 5. Including children and young people in domestic violence research: When myths and misconceptions compromise participation - Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway and Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 6. Research on teenage intimate partner violence within a European context: Findings from the literature - Sibel Korkmaz, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Sweden. 7. Fear of double disclosure and other barriers to the help seeking: An intersectional approach to address the needs of LGBT teenagers experiencing teenage relationship abuse -Maria Pentaraki, Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 8. Caring dads, safer children: Using a focus on fathering to respond to domestic violence - Nicola McConnell, Senior Evaluation Officer, NSPCC, United Kingdom, Julie Taylor, Professor of Child Protection, University of Birmingham/ Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom and Matt Barnard, Head of Crime, Justice and Communities, NatCen, United Kingdom. Part III: New understandings on domestic abuse and violence. 9. Strength through solidarity: Practitioners and parents resisting child to parent violence and abuse in Ireland - Declan Coogan, Lecturer in Social Work, NUI Galway, Ireland. 10. Digital intimate partner violence and abuse among youth: A systematic review of associated factors - Per Moum Hellevik, PhD Candidate, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway. 11. Human trafficking and gender based violence: From life and limb to hearts and minds - Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Manager, Immigrant Council of Ireland and Gloria Kirwan, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 12. Female genital mutilation: Results from the Portuguese prevalence study - Dalila Cerejo, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICSNOVA- FCSH/NOVA) New University of Lisbon, Portugal. 13. Force marriage in Europe: The case of Belgium - Els Leye, International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Belgium. Part IV: Responding to domestic violence and abuse. 14. Models on treatment of intimate partner violence: Gender based and trauma informed work at Alternative to Violence in Norway - Ingunn Rangul Askeland, Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, and Clinical Psychologist, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway and Marius Råkil, Director, Alternative to Violence, Oslo, Norway. 15. Healthcare responses to domestic violence: Why and how? - Lucy Potter, Academic Clinical Fellow, University of Bristol, United Kingdom and Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Care, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. 16. Older women's experiences of domestic abuse - Elizabeth Martin, PhD Candidate, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Gemma Carney, Lecturer in Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. 17. Whose movement is it anyway? Reflections from the field - Davina James-Hanman, Independent Violence Against Women Consultant, Lisbon, Portugal. Conclusion: Progressing the debate on domestic violence in Europe - Stephanie Holt, Associate Professor of Social Work, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, John Devaney, Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom and Carolina Øverlien, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Swedenand Researcher, Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway.

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Book SynopsisThis text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1: The Evolution of Corruption: From "Honest Graft" to Conflicts of Interest 2: The Evolution of the Anticorruption Project: From Virtue to Surveillance 3: Civil Service and the Anticorruption Project: Bondage to a Principle 4: Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosures: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity 5: Whistleblowers: Uncovering Wrongdoing at Any Price 6: Internal Government Investigation: The Panopticon in New York City 7: State and Federal Prosecutors: Putting Public Officials on Ice 8: Purging Corruption from Public Contracting: Blacklists, Debarments, and the Paralysis of Procurement 9: Auditing and Accounting Controls: Beyond Bean Counting 10: Waging War Against the Inevitable 11: Public Administration: From Reform to Pathology 12: Toward a New Discourse on Corruption Control Notes Bibliography Table of Cases Index

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Book SynopsisThis text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern.

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Book SynopsisFrom Henry Mayhew's classic study of Victorian slums to Studs Terkel's presentations of ordinary people in modern America, oral history has been used to call attention to social conditions. By analyzing the nature and circumstances of the production of such histories of delinquency, James Bennett argues that oral history is a rhetorical device, consciously chosen as such, and is to be understood in terms of its persuasive powers and aims. Bennett shows how oral or life histories of juvenile delinquents have been crucial in communicating the human traits of offenders within their social context, to attract interest in resources for programs to prevent delinquency. Although life history helped to establish the discipline of sociology, Bennett suggests concepts for understanding oral histories generated in many fields.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Doing Harm shows how a toxic mix of intrigue, questionable decisions, and a ‘just following orders’ mentality created a crisis still not fully resolved. A monumentally important work, it should be required reading in all psychology programs.” Kenneth S. Pope, recipient of APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Service“Doing Harm lifts the cloak of invisibility on the opportunists and profiteers who have survived, evaded, resisted, and escaped accountability for the US government’s post-9/11 torture program. Roy Eidelson refused to learn helplessness, exposing the calibration of cruelty within black sites, dark prisons, and the Guantanamo Battle Lab.” Mark Fallon, author of Unjustifiable Means“The post-9/11 torture program was sustained by a web of enablers that wrapped brutality in a veneer of legitimacy. Doing Harm chronicles the courageous campaign to disrupt that web, providing vital insights for all who hope to root out systemic injustice.” Elisa Massimino, former President and CEO, Human Rights First“Roy Eidelson’s searing and important book deserves a wide readership. It tells a sordid chapter in the APA’s history, offering a cautionary tale about how professional organizations can stray to the ‘dark side’ in a climate of fear and conformity.” Eyal Press, author of Dirty Work“The APA’s collusion with the Bush administration’s torture program was unique among medical associations. Eidelson and a group of colleagues, tellingly called ‘the dissidents,’ fought to end psychologists’ involvement and forced the APA to clean house. Doing Harm shows why, despite their tireless advocacy, key lessons have yet to be learned.” Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court“In Doing Harm Roy Eidelson exposes a dark chapter in the history of American psychology. Some practitioners’ complicity with government authorities in abetting torture violated the highest ethical standards. The story must be told if it is not to be repeated.” Brigadier General (Ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis“Eidelson provides a comprehensive and highly readable background story to APA’s accommodative stance toward the priorities of the Department of Defense and the CIA at a time when both agencies were clearly reconciled to indefinitely detaining and abusing—and often torturing—hundreds of detainees. … Doing Harm is essential reading. It is a detailed exploration of how the powerful make monsters behind the scenes of hollow performances of slick benevolence. And, in this regard, the APA isn’t just the American Psychological Association. It’s an ominous synecdoche of the uncannily glitching duality of the United States itself.” Counterpunch“While Doing Harm is a deeply troubling case study of how a profession can, in the pursuit of power and influence, come to betray its own principles, ethics, purpose, and indeed the very people it is supposed to serve, it is also an inspiring one in that it shows how even a handful of professionals of conscience can work to bring truth to light.” The Winnipeg Free Press"An excellent read for all involved in psychology as a discipline. Highly recommended." Choice

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Book SynopsisLittle is known about Sexual Murderers those who kill in a sexual context. Recent studies have compared their backgrounds and characteristics with that of rapists and/or violent (non-sexual) offenders. This translation of a French original by the renowned Jean Proulx challenges existing knowledge on sexual murders, offers new tools for profiling and interrogation, and helps to establish a new research base. Current theories of sexual murder, its prevalence, reasons including attachment theories, profiling and interrogation techniques are all addressed in Proulx's distinctive, thought-provoking style.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. About the Editors. List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Sexual Murderers: Myth and Reality. PART I: THE MONTREAL STUDY. Chapter 1. Sexual Murder: Definitions, Epidemiology and Theories. Chapter 2. Sexual Murderers and Sexual Aggressors: Developmental Paths and Criminal History. Chapter 3. Sexual Murderers and Sexual Aggressors: Psychopathological Considerations. Chapter 4. Sexual Murderers and Sexual Aggressors: Intention and Situation. Chapter 5. The Factors Distinguishing Sexual Murderers from Sexual Aggressors: A Multivariate Analysis. Chapter 6. Serial Killers and Sexual Murderers. Chapter 7. Sadistic Sexual Offenders. Chapter 8. Angry or Sadistic: Two Types of Sexual Murderers. Chapter 9. The Motivation and Criminal Career of Sexual Murderers. PART II: THE BIRMINGHAM STUDY. Chapter 10. A Comparison of Rapists and Sexual Murderers on Demographic and Selected Psychometric Measures. Chapter 11. Identification of Motivations for Sexual Murder. PART III: PRACTICAL ISSUES. Chapter 12. The Role of Profiling in the Investigation of Sexual Homicide. Chapter 13. Psychotherapeutic and Psychodynamic Issues with Sexual Murderers. Conclusion. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisLong accepted as a cost of doing business, occupational fraud has recently proven to be much more dangerous to a company than previously thought. Enron, Global Crossing, and other high-profile cases have shown that the risks can be enormous.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Crime and the Law Enforcement Response. Rethinking the Assumptions. The State of Occupational Fraud. Theories of Occupational Fraud. Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics (and Occupational Fraud). Thoughts on Occupational Fraud. What Can We learn? Internal Controls. Compliance Programs. Community, Corporate Citizenship, and Quality of Life. What's New? Theories of Social Deviance. Profiling. Neuroscience. Game Theory. Forensic Professionals as Organizational Pathologists. Partnerships for the Future. Environmental and Organizational Intelligence. Reconceptualizations. Leadership. The Next Five Years. Funding. Visibility. Where We Go from Here. Endnotes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe US Chamber of Commerce estimates that the cost of employee and management fraud exceeds $100 billion annually. In most cases, fraud is discovered completely by accident, the perpetrator does not get convicted, and the losses are not recovered. The authors estimate that only about 20% of all fraud gets discovered at all.Trade Review"...I opened this book with anticipation and it did not disappoint! I found the book well presented and easy to read. It certainly provides plenty of food for thought."(Accounting Technician, August 2000)Table of ContentsFRAUD-SPECIFIC EXAMINATIONS AND INTERNAL CONTROL. Audit Responsibility for Fraud Detection After Cohen andTreadway. New Perspectives on Fraud. Principles and Standards for Fraud-Specific Examinations. Classifying Fraud for Improved Detection. Internal Control and Fraud-Specific Internal Control. Establishing and Operating an Effective Fraud-Specific InternalControl System: Seven Steps to Internal Control. Computer Fraud 101. Fraud Case Studies. Fraud Case Studies--Solutions. Custodial Fraud. INVESTIGATING FRAUD. Investigating Suspected Fraud. Proactive and Reactive Investigations. PROSECUTING FRAUD. Rules of Evidence, Fraud Discovery, and Prosecution. The Legal Cases in Fraud. Ethical Conduct and Fraud Prevention. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.Table of Contents Table of Contents Abbreviations List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Chapter One Policing the Post-Liberal City: Paradoxes and Contradictions Chapter Two Johannesburg in the Geographic Imagination: Agoraphobia and other Obsessions Chapter Three Vulnerable Bodies: Self-Protection in a Risky World Chapter Four The Surveillant Assemblage: The Hyper-panoptic Imagination Chapter Five The CCTV ‘Revolution’ [With Nicky Falkof] Chapter Six Colliding Worlds in Micrososm Chapter Seven Security by Design: Spatial Management in the Hypermodern City Epilogue Introduction Epilogue 1 Jane Alexander Security Exhibition Epilogue 2 Mosquito Lightning [Carla Busuttil and Gary Charles] Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRejecting traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, this book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime.Trade ReviewHenry Ruth and Kevin Reitz have distilled a generation's worth of learning into a fresh and nonideological examination of American crime and crime control. Clear, well-informed, and candid, The Challenge of Crime is a major study of the current state of criminal justice and the prospects for its reform. -- Franklin E. Zimring, University of California, Berkeley, School of LawThis meticulous survey of the last thirty years of American criminal justice amounts to a powerful indictment. But Ruth and Reitz go beyond mere criticism, recommending rational policies to escape from our excesses of crime and punishment and to clear the way to lower rates of crime that will be met by proportional, fair, and effective responses. Further proof that at last criminology is coming of age, The Challenge of Crime merits serious attention. -- Norval Morris, University of Chicago Law SchoolRuth and Reitz have produced a powerful and exceptionally useful critique of how the United States grapples with crime. Their sharp analysis and valuable prescriptions will frame crime policy development throughout this century. -- John E. Eck, University of CincinnatiThe Challenge of Crime seeks to understand and improve America's response to crime through a system-wide, long-term, empirically based approach. The authors refute many frequently heard arguments of both liberals and conservatives, and propose solutions that can gain broad political acceptance. Modern criminal justice simply cannot be properly understood and significantly improved without this kind of comprehensive, pragmatic approach. -- Richard Frase, University of Minnesota Law SchoolThe Challenge of Crime should be required reading for anyone interested in improving our justice systems. The authors have not only documented the last thirty years of research and reform but have also helped us understand our successes and failures. No serious student of criminal justice can afford to ignore this book. -- Charles Wellford, University of MarylandHaving displaced both South Africa and the former Soviet Union as the world's top jailor, America urgently needs the kind of unflinching analysis offered by these two leading authorities on dealing with crime. The authors show why our police, state prosecutors, juvenile courts, and penitentiaries have grown increasingly punitive in the three-and-a-half decades since Lyndon Johnson's 1967 National Crime Commission, which stressed the rehabilitation of offenders and the establishment of government programs for the disadvantaged as the best hope for reversing the alarming upsurge in crime...Balanced and sober, an indispensable reference for students of criminal justice. -- Bryce Christensen * Booklist *Ruth and Reitz compellingly argue that crime control policies are dramatically flawed and that sweeping changes are essential, for reasons ranging from financial crises to moral legitimacy. The cogency of their argument and the abundance of their timely data merits careful attention and will be eye-opening to most readers. -- R. Zingraff * Choice *This important study by two leading experts on criminology and criminal law in the U.S. should be read wherever the policy of being 'tough on crime' is on the political agenda. The authors provide a wealth of descriptive, historical and statistical data, a competent methodological critique of their quality, a critical examination of explanations, and carefully argued policy recommendations...In depressing detail Ruth and Reitz show how punishment of the already deprived makes things worse for them and their kin. This book shows us some of the inadequacies of our approaches and their disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable. -- Ib Martin Jarvad * European Legacy *The Challenge of Crime is a timely, practical, well-reasoned book that is required reading for anyone interested in justice...It should prove illuminating to politicians, policymakers, and anyone interested in how to fix our response to crime. -- Craig Hemmens * Perspectives on Political Science *The Challenge of Crime is a remarkable book...In essence, [it] is a morality tale. Ruth and Reitz capably highlight many of the wrongs of contemporary crime policies and practices and detail how they can be corrected. Will those invited into the conversation do more than listen? -- Katheryn Russell-Brown * Washington Post *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crime and Punishment: A Brief American History 2. Knowledge and Assessment 3. The Current Era of Crime Response Policy 4. Prisons and Jails 5. Public and Private Paths to Security from Crime 6. Guns, Crime, and Crime Gun Regulation 7. Crime, Alcohol, and Illegal Drugs 8. Juvenile Crime The Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis practical resource gives educators in grades K through 6/8 a flexible, ready-to-use curriculum focusing on a wide range of contemporary topics such as stimulant use, family relationships, dealing with anger, managing threatening situations, and crime related activities. Developed by a team of experience educators, the lessons are based on real situations I students'' own lives that involve dealing with feelings, self-esteem, peer pressure, and respect for others. They help students build character, prepare them to recognize situations that could become violent, and teach them the skills they need to handle conflicts in a non-violent and peaceful manner. For easy use, the lessons follow a uniform format, including a descriptive title, a specific behavioral objective, and a simple eight-step lesson plan that provides everything needed for an effective, well-balances learning experience. Each lessons covers: * Purpose: Need for teaching/learning the social skill, eTable of ContentsAbout This Violence Prevention Skills Teaching Resource. Acknowledgments. About The Society for Prevention of Violence (SPV). About the Violence Prevention Skills Curriculum. Bibliography. VIOLENCE PREVENTION SKILLS LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS. To the Teacher. Life skills. 1. Coping With Difficulties in Life. Reproducibles "In Trouble" Worksheet. "Serious Difficulties" Worksheet. 2. Learning to Value Life. Reproducibles "Life is Valuable" Worksheet. "Life is Valuable" Answer Key. "I Will Be Valuable" Worksheet. 3. Understanding How to Conquer Fear. Reproducibles "Planning Ahead" Worksheet. "Safety" Worksheet. 4. Managing Anger. Reproducible "Angry Situations" Worksheet. 5. Learning That Retaliation is Futile. Reproducibles "Retaliation" Worksheet. "Retaliation" Answer Key. "Get Even" Worksheet. 6. Learning to Care for the handicapped. Reproducibles "Care" Worksheet. "Look Out" Log Sheet. 7. Learning That Failures Can Lead to Success. Reproducibles "Better Days Ahead" Worksheet. "Slipping and Tripping" Worksheet. 8. Learning to React to Disrespect. Reproducibles "Disrespect vs. Respect" Worksheet. "Respect in the Family" Worksheet. Relationships. 9. Selecting Trusted Role Models. Reproducibles "Role Model" Worksheet. "Be My Role Model" Greeting Card. 10. Learning to Find Acceptance Without Coercion. Reproducibles "Accepted" Worksheet. "Friends" Worksheet. 11. Developing Good Friendships. Reproducibles "My Friend" Worksheet. "Relationships" Worksheet. 12. Understanding Boy/Girl Relationships. Reproducible "Fun with Friends" Worksheet. 13. Understanding Rights and Responsibilities. Reproducibles "Classroom Rights" Worksheet. "Home Rights" Worksheet. Family. 14. Learning the Importance of Rules. Reproducibles "Up With School Rules" Worksheet. "Up With Family Rules" Worksheet. 15. Achieving Family Harmony. Reproducibles "Creating Family Harmony" Worksheet. "Creating Family Harmony" Answer Key. "Family Flash" Worksheet. 16. Understanding Stress in the Family. Reproducibles "Stressed Out" Worksheet. "Stressed Out" Answer Key. "A Family Problem" Worksheet. 17. Understanding Sibling Rivalry. Reproducibles "Jealous Tears" Worksheet. "Jealous Tears" Answer Key. "Resolving Sibling Rivalry" Worksheet. 18. Understanding Elderly Family Members. Reproducibles "Time Together" Worksheet. "Young and Old--How Do We Compare?" Worksheet. 19. Understanding Family Fights. Reproducibles "Stop the Violence" Worksheet. "Peaceful" Worksheet. Stress and Danger. 20. Understanding Early Signs of Troublesome Situations. Reproducibles "Trouble" Worksheet. "Danger" Worksheet. 21. Dealing with Dangerous Situations. Reproducibles "Danger Ahead" Worksheet. "Safe Sailing" Worksheet. 22. Realizing Extreme Potential Danger. Reproducibles "Stranger/Danger" Worksheet. "Threats to Me" Worksheet. 23. Learning to Trust Others. Reproducibles "Who Can I Trust?" Worksheet. "Why I Do Not Trust You . . ." Worksheet. 24. Learning to Manage Excessive Stress. Reproducibles "Excessive Stress" Worksheet. "Stress in a Box" Worksheet. Suicide. 25. Coping with Extreme Stress. Reproducibles "Stress and Me" Worksheet. "Overcoming My Stress" Worksheet. 26. Dealing with Loneliness and Depression. Reproducibles "Feelings of Depression-What?-Who?" Worksheet. "Over the Top" Worksheet. Stimulants. 27. Learning About Developing BAD Habits. Reproducibles "Habits and Me" Worksheet. "Habit Poster" Worksheet. 28. Understanding the Effects of Stimulant Use. Reproducibles "Search for Facts" Word Search. "Search for Facts" Answer Key. 29. Understanding the Dangers of Marijuana. Reproducibles "High and Dry" Worksheet. "Needs and Alternatives" Worksheet. 30. Learning About the Symptoms that Follow Stimulant Use. Reproducibles "Repulsive" Worksheet. "Resentment" Worksheet. 31. Learning to Seek Help To Stop Smoking. Reproducible "Up in Smoke" Worksheet. 32. Understanding the Consequences Due to Inhaling. Reproducibles "Temptation" Worksheet. "Search-It-Out" Worksheet. "Most Commonly Used Products" Worksheet. "Home Project--Parent Child Project" Worksheet. 33. Selecting Activities to Conquer the Desire for Stimulant Use. Reproducibles "Activities Comparison" Chart. "Alternatives-Staying Away from Stimulants" Worksheet. "Drugs or What?" Worksheet. 34. Learning to Seek Help Against Addiction. Reproducibles "Please Help" Worksheet. "Double Trouble" Worksheet. Crime. 35. Learning to Change Bully Behavior. Reproducibles "Dejected Bully" Worksheet. "Need Help for Change?" Worksheet. 36. Understanding the Difference Between Need and Desire. Reproducibles "Desire" Worksheet. "A Wish" Worksheet. 37. Learning to Be Selective with Media Programs. Reproducibles "Program Preference" Worksheet. "Daily Calendar" Worksheet. 38. satisfying a need for thrills by joining lawful activities. Reproducibles "Hang-in-There" Worksheet. "Excitement" Worksheet. 39. Understanding that Vandalism is a Crime. Reproducibles "Vandalism" Worksheet. "Vandalism" Answer Key. "Crime-Yes or No?" Worksheet. 40. Realizing that There are Consequences for Criminal Actions. Reproducibles "Consequences" Worksheet. "My Letter of Apology" Worksheet. 41. Using Our Hands Appropriately. Reproducibles "Thumbs Up-Thumbs Down" Worksheet. "My Hands" Worksheet. 42. Understanding Sexual Harassment. Reproducibles "Sexual Harassment" Worksheet. "Sexual Harassment Role Plays" Worksheet. 43. Respecting Dangerous Objects. Reproducibles "Dangerous" Worksheet. "Tragedy in Our Town" Worksheet. 44. Understanding the Consequences for Bringing Weapons to School. Reproducibles "Play Safe-No Guns" Worksheet. "Gun/School-No" Worksheet.

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Book SynopsisThe twelve papers in this volume examine how and why inequality affects the patterns of crime and criminal justice. The contributors evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies and document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Criminal inequality in America: patterns and consequences John Hagan and Ruth Peterson 2. Race, crime, and urban inequality Robert Sampson and William Julius Wilson 3. Unemployment and crime rate fluctuations in the post-World War II United States: statistical time-series properties and alternative models Ken Land, David Cantor and Stephen T. Russell 4. Ethnography, inequality, and crime in the low-income community Marti;n Sanchez Jankowski 5. Age-inequality and property crime: the effects of age-linked stratification and status-attainment processes on patterns of criminality across the life course Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Andersen Allan 6. Crime and inequality in eighteenth-century London John Beattie 7. Gender, race, and the pathways to delinquency: an interactionist explanation Karen Heimer 8. Gender inequality and violence against women: the case of murder William Bailey and Ruth Peterson 9. Crime, inequality, and justice in Eastern Europe: anomic, domination, and revolutionary change Joachim Savelsberg 10. The engineering of social control: the search for the silver bullet Gary T. Marx 11. Law, crime, and inequality: the regulatory state Peter C. Yeager 12. Inequality and republican criminology John Braithwaite.

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Book SynopsisSarah Armstrong-Smith is recognized as one of the most influential women in cybersecurity and UK tech, with over 25 years' experience delivering and advising C-suite leaders on large-scale cybersecurity, information protection and resilience programmes. She is Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft and has previously held roles at EY, Fujitsu, AXA, and the London Stock Exchange Group. She is based in Bath, UK.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical understanding of contemporary forced labour as a global social problem and argues that it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm.Trade Review"A cogent and compelling framework for identifying and tackling the systematic embeddedness of workplace exploitation." Mick Wilkinson, University of HullTable of ContentsIntroduction The labour exploitation continuum Lessons of history Direct workplace controls Indirect workplace controls Exogenous controls Navigating the edges of acceptability Preventing exploitation and harm Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to bring together international research on evidence-based skills and practices in probation and youth justice in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with ethnic minority service users, women and young people.Trade Review"I’m often asked what practitioners can do to encourage and support desistance from crime. Now I know exactly what to tell them: read this book! This remarkable collection reviews the evidence base for everything from emotional work in probation to the recruitment of ex-offender engagement workers. It is an essential resource for understanding effective rehabilitation." Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, University Manchester"A well-articulated and comparative evidence base for the construction of effective working relationships in probation practice....a must read for practitioners and policy makers." Dr Aaron Pycroft, University of PortsmouthTable of ContentsPart 1: Contextualizing practice: Key theoretical, organisational and policy developments; Chapter 1: Introduction – Effective practice skills: new directions in research ~ Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor, and Jill Annison; Chapter 2: The effective practice of staff development in England and Wales: learning from history and contemporary research ~ Maurice Vanstone; Chapter 3: The search for impact in British probation: from programmes to skills and implementation ~ Peter Raynor; Chapter 4: Is constructive practice still possible in a competitive environment? Findings from a case study of a community rehabilitation company in England and Wales ~ Lol Burke, Matthew Millings and Gwen Robinson; Chapter 5: Implementation uptake: organisational factors affecting evidence-based reform in community corrections in the United States ~ Danielle S. Rudes, Faye S. Taxman, Kimberly Kras, Kimberly S. Meyer & Shannon Magnuson; Part 2: International research on evidence‑based skills; Chapter 6: The Risk-Need-Responsivity model: evidence diversity and integrative theory ~ Martine Herzog-Evans; Chapter 7: Professional practices and skills in first interviews: a comparative perspective on probation practice in Spain and Belgium ~ Ester Blay and Johan Boxstaens; Chapter 8: Desistance-related skills in Romanian probation contexts ~ Ioan Durnescu; Chapter 9: From evidence-informed to evidence-based: the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision ~ James Bonta, Guy Bourgon and Tanya Rugge; Chapter 10: Promoting quality in probation supervision and policy transfer: evaluating the SEED programme in Romania and England ~ Angela Sorsby, Joanna Shapland and Ioan Durnescu; Chapter 11: Supervision face-to-face contacts: the emergence of an intervention ~ Heather Toronjo and Faye S. Taxman; Chapter 12: Understanding emotions as effective practice in English probation: the performance of emotional labour in building relationships ~ Andrew Fowler, Jake Phillips and Chalen Westaby; Chapter 13: Staff supervision in youth justice and its relationship to skill development: findings from Australia ~ Charlene Pereira and Chris Trotter; Part 3: Evidence-based practice with diverse groups; Chapter 14: Evidence-based skills in Welsh youth justice settings ~ Pamela Ugwudike and Gemma Morgan; Chapter 15: The impact of training and coaching on the development of practice skills in youth justice: findings from Australia ~ Chris Trotter; Chapter 16: Can the recruitment of ex-offenders enhance offender engagement? An assessment of the London Probation Trust’s engagement worker role ~ Nigel Hosking and John Rico; Chapter 17: Collaborative family work in youth justice ~ Chris Trotter; Chapter 18: Resisting effective approaches for BAME offenders in England and Wales: the triumph of inertia ~ Patrick Williams and Pauline Durrance; Chapter 19: The ambiguity of therapeutic justice and women offenders in England and Wales ~ Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos; Chapter 20: Conclusion ~ Pamela Ugwudike, Jill Annison and Peter Raynor.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to bring together international research on evidence-based skills and practices in probation and youth justice in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with ethnic minority service users, women and young people.Trade Review"I’m often asked what practitioners can do to encourage and support desistance from crime. Now I know exactly what to tell them: read this book! This remarkable collection reviews the evidence base for everything from emotional work in probation to the recruitment of ex-offender engagement workers. It is an essential resource for understanding effective rehabilitation." Shadd Maruna, Professor of Criminology, University Manchester"A well-articulated and comparative evidence base for the construction of effective working relationships in probation practice....a must read for practitioners and policy makers." Dr Aaron Pycroft, University of PortsmouthTable of ContentsPart 1: Contextualizing practice: Key theoretical, organisational and policy developments; Chapter 1: Introduction – Effective practice skills: new directions in research ~ Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor, and Jill Annison; Chapter 2: The effective practice of staff development in England and Wales: learning from history and contemporary research ~ Maurice Vanstone; Chapter 3: The search for impact in British probation: from programmes to skills and implementation ~ Peter Raynor; Chapter 4: Is constructive practice still possible in a competitive environment? Findings from a case study of a community rehabilitation company in England and Wales ~ Lol Burke, Matthew Millings and Gwen Robinson; Chapter 5: Implementation uptake: organisational factors affecting evidence-based reform in community corrections in the United States ~ Danielle S. Rudes, Faye S. Taxman, Kimberly Kras, Kimberly S. Meyer & Shannon Magnuson; Part 2: International research on evidence‑based skills; Chapter 6: The Risk-Need-Responsivity model: evidence diversity and integrative theory ~ Martine Herzog-Evans; Chapter 7: Professional practices and skills in first interviews: a comparative perspective on probation practice in Spain and Belgium ~ Ester Blay and Johan Boxstaens; Chapter 8: Desistance-related skills in Romanian probation contexts ~ Ioan Durnescu; Chapter 9: From evidence-informed to evidence-based: the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision ~ James Bonta, Guy Bourgon and Tanya Rugge; Chapter 10: Promoting quality in probation supervision and policy transfer: evaluating the SEED programme in Romania and England ~ Angela Sorsby, Joanna Shapland and Ioan Durnescu; Chapter 11: Supervision face-to-face contacts: the emergence of an intervention ~ Heather Toronjo and Faye S. Taxman; Chapter 12: Understanding emotions as effective practice in English probation: the performance of emotional labour in building relationships ~ Andrew Fowler, Jake Phillips and Chalen Westaby; Chapter 13: Staff supervision in youth justice and its relationship to skill development: findings from Australia ~ Charlene Pereira and Chris Trotter; Part 3: Evidence-based practice with diverse groups; Chapter 14: Evidence-based skills in Welsh youth justice settings ~ Pamela Ugwudike and Gemma Morgan; Chapter 15: The impact of training and coaching on the development of practice skills in youth justice: findings from Australia ~ Chris Trotter; Chapter 16: Can the recruitment of ex-offenders enhance offender engagement? An assessment of the London Probation Trust’s engagement worker role ~ Nigel Hosking and John Rico; Chapter 17: Collaborative family work in youth justice ~ Chris Trotter; Chapter 18: Resisting effective approaches for BAME offenders in England and Wales: the triumph of inertia ~ Patrick Williams and Pauline Durrance; Chapter 19: The ambiguity of therapeutic justice and women offenders in England and Wales ~ Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos; Chapter 20: Conclusion ~ Pamela Ugwudike, Jill Annison and Peter Raynor.

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Book SynopsisAs marketisation and privatisation reshape the criminal justice system, this illuminating overview sets out their causes, scale and impacts. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, leading academics consider the evolving roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and possible future reforms.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice; an Overview ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips Part 1 ~ Introduction and Theoretical Frameworks Market Society Utopianism in Penal Politics ~ Mary Corcoran Outcomes-Based Contracts In the UK Public Sector ~ Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson The Carceral State and the Interpenetration of Interests: Commercial, Governmental, and Civil Society Interests in Criminal Justice ~ James Gacek and Richard Sparks Understanding the Privatisation of Probation Through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Field Theory ~ Jake Phillips The Progress of Marketisation: The Prison and Probation Experience ~ Kevin Albertson and Chris Fox Part 2 ~ Experiences of Marketisation in the Public Sector The ‘Soft Power’ of Marketisation: The Administrative Assembling of Irish Youth Justice Work ~ Katharina Swirak Police Outsourcing and Labour Force Vulnerability ~ Roxanna Dehaghani and Adam White Marketisation or Corporatisation? Making Sense of Private Influence in Public Policing Across Canada and the US ~ Kevin Walby and Randy K. Lippert Marketisation and Competition in Criminal Legal Aid: Implications for Access to Justice ~ Tom Smith and Ed Johnston Holding Private Prisons to Account: What Role for Controllers As ‘The Eyes and Ears of the State’? ~ Joanna Hargreaves and Amy Ludlow A Flawed Revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation Changes in England and Wales Through the Prism of a Community Justice Court ~ Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos Part 3 ~ Marketisation and the Voluntary Sector Constructive Ambiguity, Market Imaginaries and the Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales ~ Mary Corcoran, Mike Maguire and Kate Williams Marketisation of Women’s Organisations in the Criminal Justice Sector ~ Vickie Cooper and Maureen Mansfield Surviving the Revolution? The Voluntary Sector Under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales ~ Kevin Wong and Rob Macmillan Part 4 ~ Beyond Institutions: Marketisation Beyond the Criminal Justice Institution Neoliberal Imaginaries and GPS Tracking in England and Wales ~ Mike Nellis Misery As Business: How Immigration Detention Became a Cash-Cow in Britain’s Borders ~ Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning Prison Education: A Northern European Wicked Policy Problem? ~ Gerry Czerniawski Making Local Regulation Better? Marketisation, Privatisation and the Erosion of Social Protection ~ Steve Tombs The ‘Fearsome Frowning Face of the State’ and Ex-Prisoners: Promoting Employment or Alienation, Anger and Perpetual Punishment? ~ Del Roy Fletcher Conclusion: What Has Been Learned ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips

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Book SynopsisAs marketisation and privatisation reshape the criminal justice system, this illuminating overview sets out their causes, scale and impacts. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, leading academics consider the evolving roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and possible future reforms.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice; an Overview ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips Part 1 ~ Introduction and Theoretical Frameworks Market Society Utopianism in Penal Politics ~ Mary Corcoran Outcomes-Based Contracts In the UK Public Sector ~ Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson The Carceral State and the Interpenetration of Interests: Commercial, Governmental, and Civil Society Interests in Criminal Justice ~ James Gacek and Richard Sparks Understanding the Privatisation of Probation Through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Field Theory ~ Jake Phillips The Progress of Marketisation: The Prison and Probation Experience ~ Kevin Albertson and Chris Fox Part 2 ~ Experiences of Marketisation in the Public Sector The ‘Soft Power’ of Marketisation: The Administrative Assembling of Irish Youth Justice Work ~ Katharina Swirak Police Outsourcing and Labour Force Vulnerability ~ Roxanna Dehaghani and Adam White Marketisation or Corporatisation? Making Sense of Private Influence in Public Policing Across Canada and the US ~ Kevin Walby and Randy K. Lippert Marketisation and Competition in Criminal Legal Aid: Implications for Access to Justice ~ Tom Smith and Ed Johnston Holding Private Prisons to Account: What Role for Controllers As ‘The Eyes and Ears of the State’? ~ Joanna Hargreaves and Amy Ludlow A Flawed Revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation Changes in England and Wales Through the Prism of a Community Justice Court ~ Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos Part 3 ~ Marketisation and the Voluntary Sector Constructive Ambiguity, Market Imaginaries and the Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales ~ Mary Corcoran, Mike Maguire and Kate Williams Marketisation of Women’s Organisations in the Criminal Justice Sector ~ Vickie Cooper and Maureen Mansfield Surviving the Revolution? The Voluntary Sector Under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales ~ Kevin Wong and Rob Macmillan Part 4 ~ Beyond Institutions: Marketisation Beyond the Criminal Justice Institution Neoliberal Imaginaries and GPS Tracking in England and Wales ~ Mike Nellis Misery As Business: How Immigration Detention Became a Cash-Cow in Britain’s Borders ~ Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning Prison Education: A Northern European Wicked Policy Problem? ~ Gerry Czerniawski Making Local Regulation Better? Marketisation, Privatisation and the Erosion of Social Protection ~ Steve Tombs The ‘Fearsome Frowning Face of the State’ and Ex-Prisoners: Promoting Employment or Alienation, Anger and Perpetual Punishment? ~ Del Roy Fletcher Conclusion: What Has Been Learned ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips

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Book SynopsisFrom the Alcatraz East Crime Museum to Jack the Ripper guided tours, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians expose a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture in which many of us partake.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell 1. Cocaine Bear: Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Travis Linnemann 2. Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Thomas Raymen 3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, USA - Alice Storey 4. From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK - Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick 5. Jack the Ripper Tour: Whitechapel, London, UK - Kevin Hoffin 6. The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA - Laura Hammond 7. The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA - Loukas Ntanos 8. The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK - Sarah Jones 9. The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA - David Wilson 10. The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK - Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce 11. Auschwitz: Oświęcim, Poland - Tammy Ayres and Sarah Hodgkinson 12. Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea - Robin West 13. Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium - Sophie Gregory 14. Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepāja, Latvia - Melindy Duffus 15. The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK - Dan Rusu 16. The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA - John Bahadur Lamb 17. The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Eamonn Carrabine 18. Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Luke Telford 19. Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Ben Colliver 20. Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa - Patrick Berry and Gary R. Potter 21. 'The ugly side to the beautiful game': Qatar - Grace Gallacher 22. Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA - Keith Hayward 23. Magaluf: Majorca - Simon Winlow 24. 'Holiday Hooters': Hong Kong - Katie Lowe 25. Scilla: Calabria, Italy - Anna Sergi 26. The Kray twins tours: London, UK - Craig Ancrum 27. Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia - Eveleigh Buck-Matthews and Craig Kelly 28. The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia - Emiline Smith 29. The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus - Donna Yates and Hannah London 30. Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Nick Gibbs 31. The Souks: Tunis, Tunisia - Kyla Bavin and James Treadwell 32. Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine - Tereza Østbø Kuldova and Jardar Østbø 33. The great British seaside: various locations, UK - Neil Chakraborti 34. The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA - Natasha Pope 35. The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK - Ian R. Cook and Michael Rowe 36. Volunteer tourism - 'doing it for the 'gram': Cambodia, Southeast Asia - Orlando Woods 37. The Staycation: home - Jack Denham 38. The 'suicide forest': Aokigahara, Japan - Max Hart 39. Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean - Steve Wadley 40. Favela tours: Rio De Janerio, Brazil - Duncan Frankis and Selina Patel Nascimento 41. Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA - Craig Kelly 42. The 2019-2020 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong - Jane Richards 43. The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean - Emiline Smith and Oliver Smith 44. Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia - Joe Garrihy 45. Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa - Angus Nurse 46. Dark Tourism, ecocide and alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe - Oliver Smith 47. Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK - Emma Winlow 48. One Hyde Park: London, UK - Rowland Atkinson 49. Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour - Adam Lynes 50. Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA - Anthony Lloyd Conclusion - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell

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Book SynopsisAn important understanding of the role public opinion plays in crime prevention policyDefund the police. This slogan became a rallying cry among Black Lives Matter protesters following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. These three words evoke a fundamental question about America's policy priorities: should the nation rely predominantly upon the branches of the criminal justice system to arrest, prosecute, and imprison offenders, or should the nation prioritize fixing structural causes of crime by investing more heavily in the infrastructure and institutions of disadvantaged communities? To put it simply, do Americans actually prefer punishment over crime prevention?The Politics of Crime Prevention examines American public opinion about crime prevention in the twenty-first century with a particular focus on how average citizens would choose to prioritize resources between the criminal justice system and community-based institutions. KeviTrade ReviewThe United States sits at a correctional turning point, with a half-century of mass imprisonment now revealed to be a misguided policy failure. To know what next steps are possible, listen to Kevin Wozniak. Based on primary data and an expansive mastery of the research literature, he shows that the American public aspires to more than a punitive, lock ’em up response to crime. He presents strong empirical evidence that the citizenry favors community investment over criminal justice investment. Public opinion thus is a potential resource for needed progressive reform. Americans believe that a safer society depends on having a better society for all—a salient message that politicians need to hear and act upon. * Francis T. Cullen, co-author of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences *Three words, relatively new to the English lexicon--“Defund the police” (DTP)—can conjure up drastically different images in the minds of Americans. To some, it represents the only strategy forward to address systemic racism, lethal police violence, and long-standing racial and social inequity. To others, the same three words are an affront to justice, social order, and the law enforcement professionals who risk their lives to ensure public safety. In The Politics of Crime Prevention Dr. Kevin H. Wozniak demonstrates that despite these disparate images and distortions, at its heart, the true emphasis of DTP, is not as polarizing as we might think. As the author argues, it is a story of community reinvestment rather than community division. Drawing on a careful and nuanced analysis of public attitudes, Wozniak draws our attention to two key takeaways concerning current crime and justice debates: 1) American public opinion is not unilaterally punitive, in that most Americans are not the “get tough” enthusiasts some politicians and pundits would have us believe, and 2) most citizens recognize that crime prevention begins much sooner than sanctioning, as a large swath of the public strongly favors “front-end” community investment efforts to ensure public safety (public school funding, job creation program). The author argues that it is high-time policymakers listened to these sentiments, and it is difficult not to agree. This book will appeal to many audiences—academics and researchers, public policy administrators, public safety professionals, students, and anyone desiring a deeper understanding of public attitudes toward crime, punishment, and community investment. * Christina Mancini, author of Sex Crime, Offenders, and Society: A Critical Look at Sexual Offending and Policy *The Politics of Crime Prevention counters the view that investments in the carceral state reflect the “will of the people.” Using original carefully crafted research, Wozniak argues that the majority of Black and White Americans support community investment to prevent crime. Accessibly written, The Politics of Crime Prevention provides a road map for those who want public safety without more police and prisons. * Heather Schoenfeld, author of Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration *Overall, both academic scholars and researchers who conduct public opinion and public policy research related to crime and criminal justice and community members who are interested in understanding more about the crime issue will find the content in the book helpful and easy to follow. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *

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Book SynopsisAn important understanding of the role public opinion plays in crime prevention policyDefund the police. This slogan became a rallying cry among Black Lives Matter protesters following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. These three words evoke a fundamental question about America's policy priorities: should the nation rely predominantly upon the branches of the criminal justice system to arrest, prosecute, and imprison offenders, or should the nation prioritize fixing structural causes of crime by investing more heavily in the infrastructure and institutions of disadvantaged communities? To put it simply, do Americans actually prefer punishment over crime prevention?The Politics of Crime Prevention examines American public opinion about crime prevention in the twenty-first century with a particular focus on how average citizens would choose to prioritize resources between the criminal justice system and community-based institutions. KeviTrade ReviewThe United States sits at a correctional turning point, with a half-century of mass imprisonment now revealed to be a misguided policy failure. To know what next steps are possible, listen to Kevin Wozniak. Based on primary data and an expansive mastery of the research literature, he shows that the American public aspires to more than a punitive, lock ’em up response to crime. He presents strong empirical evidence that the citizenry favors community investment over criminal justice investment. Public opinion thus is a potential resource for needed progressive reform. Americans believe that a safer society depends on having a better society for all—a salient message that politicians need to hear and act upon. * Francis T. Cullen, co-author of Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences *Three words, relatively new to the English lexicon--“Defund the police” (DTP)—can conjure up drastically different images in the minds of Americans. To some, it represents the only strategy forward to address systemic racism, lethal police violence, and long-standing racial and social inequity. To others, the same three words are an affront to justice, social order, and the law enforcement professionals who risk their lives to ensure public safety. In The Politics of Crime Prevention Dr. Kevin H. Wozniak demonstrates that despite these disparate images and distortions, at its heart, the true emphasis of DTP, is not as polarizing as we might think. As the author argues, it is a story of community reinvestment rather than community division. Drawing on a careful and nuanced analysis of public attitudes, Wozniak draws our attention to two key takeaways concerning current crime and justice debates: 1) American public opinion is not unilaterally punitive, in that most Americans are not the “get tough” enthusiasts some politicians and pundits would have us believe, and 2) most citizens recognize that crime prevention begins much sooner than sanctioning, as a large swath of the public strongly favors “front-end” community investment efforts to ensure public safety (public school funding, job creation program). The author argues that it is high-time policymakers listened to these sentiments, and it is difficult not to agree. This book will appeal to many audiences—academics and researchers, public policy administrators, public safety professionals, students, and anyone desiring a deeper understanding of public attitudes toward crime, punishment, and community investment. * Christina Mancini, author of Sex Crime, Offenders, and Society: A Critical Look at Sexual Offending and Policy *The Politics of Crime Prevention counters the view that investments in the carceral state reflect the “will of the people.” Using original carefully crafted research, Wozniak argues that the majority of Black and White Americans support community investment to prevent crime. Accessibly written, The Politics of Crime Prevention provides a road map for those who want public safety without more police and prisons. * Heather Schoenfeld, author of Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration *Overall, both academic scholars and researchers who conduct public opinion and public policy research related to crime and criminal justice and community members who are interested in understanding more about the crime issue will find the content in the book helpful and easy to follow. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *

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Book SynopsisBuilding on an original study with almost two hundred older incarcerated individuals, this book explores systemic problems that infiltrate the body of the Canadian federal correctional system and other institutions that engage with prisoners.Trade Review"In Punished for Aging, Adelina Iftene amplifies the little-heard voices of aging inmates incarcerated in Canadian penitentiaries. Iftene overlays those voices with compact, yet clear, analysis of the policy and legal context in which punishment is administered, attending specifically to how inmates experienced the process of aging whilst subject to the techniques and forms of incarceration." -- Joshua David Michael Shaw * Punishment & Society *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May 2021 *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsPreamble: The Actors Enter the Stage 1. Some Context: The Canadian Federal Correctional System 2. Age and Health Care Behind Bars 3. Reform for Older Prisoners: Release and Institutional Accommodation 4. Democracy in Action: Implementation of Policy Reform and Prison Oversight 5. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Administrative Boards and Tribunals 6. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Courts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the intimate relationships between sex workers and clients in post-reform China, where normative ideals concerning masculine and feminine behaviour are the primary goal of these relationships.Trade Review"China’s Commercial Sexscapes gives a voice to women and men who otherwise remain largely voiceless and nameless in a nation which would rather pretend that they don’t exist." -- Mike Cormack * South China Morning Post, October 12, 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Method 1. Urban Sexscapes: A Snapshop of China’s Commercial Sex Industries Part Two: "Tempting Girls" and Clients in Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets 2. Finding Hope as a "Tempting Girl" in China: Sex Work, Indentured Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Individualism 3. Disappointed and Despondent: How Young-Adult Male Migrants Contest Masculinity in China’s Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets Part Three: Intimacy and Masculinity in High-End Niche Markets 4. Reframing Love with a "Dirty Girl": High-End Sex Work and Intimate Relations in Urban China 5. Reciprocating Desires: The Pursuit of Desirable East Asian Femininity in China’s Commercial Sex Industry Part Four: Social Policy Implications and Criminal Justice 6. Selling Commercial Sex as Edgework 7. Profit-Making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of the Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers Conclusion: Understanding the New Trends in China's Commercial Sex Industry References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Canadian courts adapt international human trafficking laws, while also examining how trafficking cases are policed and prosecuted, defended, and judged.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Legal Regimes 2. The Canadian Victim 3. Policing Trafficking 4. Trafficking on Trial 5. The Villain Conclusion Appendix A: Human Trafficking Cases: Race, Age, Gender, and Visual Depictions of Accused in Media Appendix B: Human Trafficking Charges and Outcomes Appendix C: Interview Participants Appendix D: Interview Questions Appendix E: Case Summaries Appendix F: Expanded Methods References

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Book SynopsisExploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China’s Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism. The book is based in large part upon interviews with sex workers and their clients the author conducted while undercover as a bartender in Dongguan, an important industrial city in Guangdong province and an explicit, complicated, and multidimensional setting for study. In the wake of the financial crisis, the purchasing of sex by single, young-adult males has become an increasingly socially acceptable way for men to perform and experience heteronormative masculinity. Investigating human rights, social policy, and the criminal justice system in China, this book applies the concept of edgework to the commercial sex industry in Dongguan to study how men and women interact within the changing global econoTrade Review"China’s Commercial Sexscapes gives a voice to women and men who otherwise remain largely voiceless and nameless in a nation which would rather pretend that they don’t exist." -- Mike Cormack * South China Morning Post, October 12, 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Method 1. Urban Sexscapes: A Snapshop of China’s Commercial Sex Industries Part Two: "Tempting Girls" and Clients in Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets 2. Finding Hope as a "Tempting Girl" in China: Sex Work, Indentured Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Individualism 3. Disappointed and Despondent: How Young-Adult Male Migrants Contest Masculinity in China’s Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets Part Three: Intimacy and Masculinity in High-End Niche Markets 4. Reframing Love with a "Dirty Girl": High-End Sex Work and Intimate Relations in Urban China 5. Reciprocating Desires: The Pursuit of Desirable East Asian Femininity in China’s Commercial Sex Industry Part Four: Social Policy Implications and Criminal Justice 6. Selling Commercial Sex as Edgework 7. Profit-Making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of the Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers Conclusion: Understanding the New Trends in China's Commercial Sex Industry References Index

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Book SynopsisBuilt around the experiences of older prisoners, Punished for Aging looks at the challenges individuals face in Canadian penitentiaries and their struggles for justice. Through firsthand accounts and quantitative data drawn from extensive interviews, this book brings forward the experiences of federally incarcerated people living their golden years behind bars. These experiences show the limited ability of the system to respond to heightened needs, while also raising questions about how international and national laws and policies are applied, and why they fail to ensure the safety and well-being of incarcerated individuals. In so doing, Adelina Iftene explores the shortcomings of institutional processes, prison-monitoring mechanisms, and legal remedies available in courts and tribunals, which leave prisoners vulnerable to rights abuses. Some of the problems addressed in this book are not new; however, the demographic shift and the increase in people dying in pTrade Review"In Punished for Aging, Adelina Iftene amplifies the little-heard voices of aging inmates incarcerated in Canadian penitentiaries. Iftene overlays those voices with compact, yet clear, analysis of the policy and legal context in which punishment is administered, attending specifically to how inmates experienced the process of aging whilst subject to the techniques and forms of incarceration." -- Joshua David Michael Shaw * Punishment & Society *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May 2021 *"Whether readers come to Punished for Aging for the primary data or for the legal analysis, this book is an important work. Impressive both in its scope and its depth, it respectfully conveys the voices of a population who are too often invisible to those whose lives are not directly touched by the prison. As such, it makes a significant contribution to both the prisoner health and prisoner justice literatures." -- Helen Hudson * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsPreamble: The Actors Enter the Stage 1. Some Context: The Canadian Federal Correctional System 2. Age and Health Care Behind Bars 3. Reform for Older Prisoners: Release and Institutional Accommodation 4. Democracy in Action: Implementation of Policy Reform and Prison Oversight 5. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Administrative Boards and Tribunals 6. Correcting Wrongs and Pushing for Reform through Courts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHuman trafficking has emerged as one of the top international and domestic policy concerns, and is well covered and often sensationalized by the media. The nature of the topic combined with various international pressures has resulted in an array of government-led mandates to combat the issue. The Domestication of Human Trafficking examines Canada’s criminal justice approaches to human trafficking, with a particular focus on the ways in which the intersecting factors of race, class, gender, and sexuality impact practice. Using a wide range of qualitative and empirically grounded research methods, including extensive analysis of court documents, trial transcripts, and interviews with criminal justice actors, this book contributes to much-needed research that examines, specifies, and sometimes complicates the narratives of how trafficking works as a criminal offence. The Domestication of Human Trafficking turns our attention to the ways in which the Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Legal Regimes 2. The Canadian Victim 3. Policing Trafficking 4. Trafficking on Trial 5. The Villain Conclusion Appendix A: Human Trafficking Cases: Race, Age, Gender, and Visual Depictions of Accused in Media Appendix B: Human Trafficking Charges and Outcomes Appendix C: Interview Participants Appendix D: Interview Questions Appendix E: Case Summaries Appendix F: Expanded Methods References

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Book SynopsisPathways to Ruin? presents an in-depth examination of individuals deemed as high-risk by the Canadian criminal justice system, elucidating their pathways to crime.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Early Years 3. The Teen Years/Early Adulthood: Officially Starting a Life of Crime 4. Adulthood 5. The Criminal Justice Experience and Specialization 6. Desistance 7. Conclusions Appendix: Methods References

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