Crime and criminology Books

Book SynopsisGreen Criminology embraces a wide and rapidly growing network of researchers and scholars around the world who are actively engaged in the study of environmental crime and ecological justice. Transgressions against humans, eco-systems, and animals constitute the main focus of Green Criminology and this new four-volume collection from Routledge provides an authoritative, one-stop reference work to make sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed its development and growth.Themes covered in the collection include: the conceptual foundations of Green Criminology; victimization and offending; criminal-justice responses to environmental crime; and emerging environmental issues, such as climate change, that demand urgent criminological attention. Topics range from transnational environmental crimes, such as the illegal dumping of waste and illegal trade in wildlife, through to prosecution and sentencing in relation to environmental crimes.Each volume provides a provocative and stimulating showcase of criminological research, scholarship, and commentary dealing with the nature and dynamics of environmental crime. The volumes are structured to provide users with a strong sense of the theories, methodological approaches, conceptual innovations, and empirical research of Green Criminology. Together, they constitute an essential work of reference for anyone interested in social and environmental transformations and justice from a criminological perspective.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reformTrade Review"With rigor and specificity, John Pfaff sifts through the data to mount a convincing case about the causes of mass incarceration and the levers by which we can undo it. A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world's most imprisoned nation." -Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes and author of A Colony in a Nation "The significant political and practical challenges of transforming society's response to violence may help explain why voters and politicians cling to the myth that prisons will empty out if we simply reduce penalties for nonviolent drug crimes. The road of reform laid out by Pfaff and Forman is a relatively harder one to walk. But if the desired destination is an end to mass incarceration, it's the only way to get there."-Washington Post (Wonkblog) "A succinct, powerful explanation of why much of what we think about the incarceration boom is probably wrong." -Bloomberg View "An important new book." -Washington Monthly "A valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion about justice reform... Packed with charts and figures, it's candy to the numbers-loving brain, but even those who weary of statistics are sure to find some interesting tidbits... Peppered throughout are fascinating details about our justice system that you probably won't find elsewhere... Maybe it's time to stop arguing about who broke America. LOCKED IN gives us some ideas for how we might fix it." -National Review "[Pfaff's] exacting prose meticulously explores every data set and perspective... [he] constructs a new narrative, focusing attention on four dimensions of criminal justice too frequently overlooked: local criminal justice systems, the role of prosecutors, the failed politics of punitive punishment and violent offenders... required reading for students, citizens, activists and policy reformers interested in excavating how our system of hyper-incarceration was constructed incrementally over decades." -America Magazine "Provocative and packed with data, Locked In will change how you think about what's wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it. A book that will be instantly integral to solving one of the country's most important challenges." -Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale University, and author of Sticks and Stones "Timely and authoritative, Pfaff's discussion of mass incarceration provides a valuable and accessible addition to the prison reform narrative and an excellent analysis of the U.S. criminal justice system." -Library Journal "A thorough and demanding examination of a problem that has no easy solutions and a challenge to policymakers to discard prior notions about the nature of the problem and the needed reforms." -Kirkus Reviews "In Locked In, John Pfaff delivers a brilliant lesson in myth-busting that anyone interested in reform of our criminal justice system must heed. Our mass incarceration crisis is not chiefly due to an unholy alliance of legislatures and police in carrying out the War on Drugs, nor is it true that a massive share of American prisoners are 'nonviolent drug offenders.' Combining his lawyer's understanding of institutional practice with an economist's cold-eyed commitment to empirical fact, Pfaff points us to other causes, and the key one is a nationwide phenomenon of prosecutors filing felony charges and seeking longer sentences, often de facto life sentences, for violent crimes that were once treated more sensibly. The powerful lesson is that rational cost-benefit analysis can be a partner to human decency in redeeming lives that still hold promise, and in ending our status as an embarrassing international anomaly." -Professor Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center "Locked In is a game changer for those who care about the crisis of mass incarceration. John Pfaff's virtuosic effort explodes what he calls the 'Standard Story,' showing us that the morally satisfying answers to questions about mass incarceration are usually wrong and that the solutions are almost always more banal-making them harder to accomplish. Most importantly, Locked In is not satisfied with providing this new and compelling framework for understanding why America locks up more people than any other nation in history. It goes further to provide concrete solutions that should be part of any roadmap for reform. If you want to change how we imprison people, you have to read this book!" -Phillip Atiba Goff, President of the Center for Policing Equity and Professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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Book SynopsisBased on a survey of probation work with almost 1400 young adult offenders, this book provides a unique insight into the realities of probation practice in a context of increasing poverty, drug use and community breakdown. Starting with an outline of the current policy environment, the book discusses the relevance of criminological theory to the harsh experience of young offenders in modern Britain. It goes on to develop a typology of offending behaviour on the basis of detailed and often disturbing accounts of the histories and troubles of young people afflicted by poverty, disruption of family relationships and long term unemployment. While much of the book is concerned with the difficulties young offenders experience, and the problems probation officers have in trying to help them change, the overall message of the book is not one of despair. The authors show that good probation practice can make a difference, and the book is written in a way which will be useful to practitioners and policy-makers involved with supervising offenders in the community. From the typology of offending the authors extract lessons for appropriate and relevant practice which should help to improve the quality and effectiveness of the probation service. Some of these implications are explored in the concluding chapter, by Cedric Fullwood, Chief Probation Officer of Greater Manchester. As well as criminal justice practitioners, students of criminology, probation trainees and other social work students will find in the book many vivid examples of how sociological theory can be used to understand and interpret practice. The book is likely to provoke much debate about what constitutes positive practice in a probation service facing the challenges of the future.Table of ContentsContents: The study in context; A typology of offending behaviour; Self-expression; Social activity; Social norm; Coping; Life-style; Professional; Policy and management implications; Index of names of cases; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe authors aim to provide practical guidance to enable practitioners in the various criminal justice, health and social care agencies to divert mentally disordered offenders from prosecution and custody and to help prevent re-offending.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Timothy F. Durkin, Chairman, MIND; Acknowledgements; Why are people with mental health problems sent to prison?; Development of diversion projects nationally; Turning vision into reality; Key points of intervention; The role of the prison; Diversion into what?; Funding and managing a project; Record keeping, monitoring and evaluation; The future of the project; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER â? The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)â??and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative critical introduction to the way the event of JFK's assassination has been represented in a range of discourses.Trade Review'Peter Knight has done the impossible - he has written a very interesting and readable book on the Kennedy Assassination. Comprehensive though never obsessive, sharply analytic but not cranky or opinionated, and written in a lively yet authoritative style, The Kennedy Assassination will prove indispensable not only to students and researchers of American politics and culture over the last half century, but also to the general reader.' Richard H. King, School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham 'Peter Knight's book on the Kennedy assassination is the best available source we have on the most symptomatic event of postwar American history. Encyclopedic in scope, elegant and clear in its execution, wide-ranging in its assessment of the history and representational aftermath of that dark day in Dallas, this will be the "go-to" book on the Kennedy assassination for some time to come.' Patrick O'Donnell, Chair of the Department of English, Michigan StateTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Journalism; 2. History; 3. The Official Version; 4. The Unofficial Version; 5. Literature; 6. Visual Culture; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisCriminology assumes the position of an established discipline, yet its influence is limited by its primary focus on the West for both theoretical and empirical substance. But the growing interest in comparative criminology now means that countries compare notes, thereby broadening the parameters of criminology. Still relatively ignored in the literature, however, are issues of crime and justice as they affect people of African descent around the globe. Drawing upon materials from countries in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, and Europe, this stimulating book reflects on the experiences of people of African descent to offer a convergence of criminologies in and outside the West. Simultaneously, it acknowledges Western criminology as a significant angle from which to comprehend crime and justice as they are conceptualized outside the West. The volume also investigates whether Western criminological accounts are relevant to the comprehension of crime, criminality and systems of justice in Africa, the Caribbean and South America.Trade Review’Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice is a powerful and, in every sense, radical contribution to the criminological literature. It tackles neglected crime problems, unearths injustice, develops progressive lines of inquiry and offers radical proposals for the future. This collection is essential reading for students, academics and activists concerned with criminal justice in Africa and for communities of the diaspora.’ Professor Ben Bowling, King's College London, UK and University of the West Indies, Barbados ’...[a] timely collection of essays about the criminological crisis facing people of African descent...Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice deserves a wide readership.’ Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton and Biko Agozino; Criminology and orientalism, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton; Human rights, gender and traditional practices: the Trokosi system in West Africa, Robert Kwame Ameh; Crime, justice and social control in Egypt, Jon Alexander and Camy Pector; Crime, social change and social control in Namibia: an exploratory study of Namibian prisons, Annelie Odendaal; Criminal fraud and developing countries, Udo C. Osisiogu; Transnational crimes: the case of advanced fee fraud in Nigeria, Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe; Women faced with violence: a view on skin colour in Brazil, Alice Itani and Wagner Volpe; Working from the inside/out: drama as activism in Westville female prison, Miranda Young-Jahangeer; Women and (African) indigenous justice systems, Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi; Crossing the wrong boundaries: the dilemma of women's drug trade participation in Jamaica, Marlyn J. Jones; Gunboat criminology and the colonization of Africa, Emmanuel C. Onyeozili; Reparative justice: a Pan-African criminology primer, Biko Agozino; Index.

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Book SynopsisGenocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing are terms which in recent years have entered common usage. The worst cases of these crimes seen in the Yugoslav secession conflict and the Rwandan slaughter resulted in attempts by the international legal community to initiate an international mechanism for establishing criminal accountability. In 1998, after many States signed the Rome Statute, it was expected that justice would prevail over state power and impunity be eliminated. However there is a serious question mark over the effectiveness of this process. That is the starting point for this collection. It is not an acclamatory collection that is meant to celebrate the undoubted advances of international criminal justice. The articles in the first part show the importance of comparative criminal law research to the development of international criminal justice, and in the second part they deal with the foundations, substantive and procedural aspects of international criminal law.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Comparative Criminal Law: Harmonic convergence? Constitutional criminal procedure in an international context, Diane Marie Amann; The use of domestic sources as a basis for international criminal law principles, Michael Bohlander and Mark Findlay; The Iranian criminal justice under the Islamization project, Hassan Rezaei; Codifying Shari'a: international norms, legality and the freedom to invent new forms, Paul H. Robinson, Adnan Zulfiqar, Margaret Kammerud, Michael Orchowski, Elizabeth A. Gerlach, Adam L. Pollock, Thomas M. O'Brien, John C. Lin, Tom Stenson, Negar Katirai, J. John Lee and Marc Aaron Melzer; Traversing the rocky road of law reform in conflict and post conflict states: model codes for post conflict criminal justice as a tool of assistance, Vivienne O'Connor. Part II International Criminal Law: Foundations: The philosophy and policy of international criminal justice, M. Cherif Bassiouni; Global criminal justice: an idea whose time has passed, Jeremy Rabkin; Arab and Islamic Shari'a perspectives on the current system of international criminal justice, Adel Maged; Substantive: The expressive capacity of international punishment: the limits of the national law analogy and the potential of international criminal law, Robert D. Sloane; Drawing the boundaries of mens rea in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Mohamed Elewa Badar; Prosecutor v. Dusko Tadic: waiting to exhale, Michael Bohlander; Genuine consent to sexual violence under international law, Wolfgang Schomburg and Ines Petersen; Procedural: The structure of international criminal procedure: 'adversarial', 'inquisitorial' or 'mixed', Kai Ambos; The trial proceedings before the ICC, Stefan Kirsch; International criminal tribunals and their power to punish contempt and false testimony, Michael Bohlander; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisBuilding Modern Criminology collects four decades of theoretical essays and research papers by David Greenberg, a sociologist pulled away by his political experiences during the Vietnam War from a career in theoretical high energy physics into criminology. The papers take up critical questions in the study of crime, including the explanation of group differences, the nature of criminal careers, and historical trends in violence. Other papers address the historical development of criminal prohibitions, modes of punishment, and the effectiveness of sanctions in preventing crime. These seminal efforts have helped to build a logically coherent, empirically grounded criminology that understands the criminal law, patterns of crime and social responses to it in their historically-specific, social contexts. This volume is indispensable for students, teachers and working criminological researchers engaging with cutting-edge issues in contemporary criminology.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Causes of Crime: Delinquency and the age structure of society; The gendering of crime in Marxist theory; Time series analysis of crime rates; Long-term trends in crimes of violence; Modeling criminal careers. Part II The Effects of the Criminal Justice System: The effect of arrests on crime: a multivariate panel analysis; The incapacitative effect of imprisonment: some estimates. Part III Understanding the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice System: The dialectics of crime control (with Drew Humphries); The dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes; The prison as a lawless agency (with Fay Stender); Punishment, division of labor, and social solidarity; State prison populations and their growth, 1971-1991 (with Valerie West); Siting the death penalty internationally (with Valerie West); List of publications; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisOne of the oldest and most extensive forms of criminology falls within what is referred to, among other names, as social ecology. Beginning with the work of Guerry and Quetelet, this theory became the dominate paradigm in explaining crime with the work of the Chicago School in the early 1900s, social disorganization theory, and neighborhood research attempting to deal with crime in deteriorating cities. Social ecology is also the basis for the research being conducted in environmental criminology. This volume offers a selection of the most influential works in social ecology and environmental criminology. It begins with research from human ecology and the Chicago School, extending through some of the research in social disorganization theory. It encompasses some of the major journal articles from the 1980s and 1990s in neighborhoods and crime, and then addresses some of the quintessential works in environmental criminology. It ends with groundbreaking work in this area that may indicatTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Early Days - Human Ecology: The study of the delinquent as a person, Ernest W. Burgess; The ecological approach to the study of the human community, R. D. McKenzie; Human ecology, Robert Ezra Park; Ecology and human ecology, Amos H. Hawley. Part II Social Disorganization and Beyond: The neighborhood and child conduct, Henry D. McKay; Rejoinder, Clifford R. Shaw; The conflict of values in delinquency areas, Solomon Kobrin; Community structure and crime: testing social-disorganization theory, Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves. Part III The Focus on Deteriorating Neighbourhoods: Dangerous places: crime and residential environment, Dennis W. Roncek; Community change and patterns of delinquency, Robert J. Bursik Jr and Jim Webb; The police and neighborhood safety: broken windows, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling; Neighborhood and delinquency: an assessment of contextual effects, Ora Simcha-Fagan and Joseph E. Schwartz; Neighborhood social capital as differential social organization: resident and leadership dimensions, Robert J. Sampson and Corina Graif . Part IV The Rise of Environmental Criminology: Crime prevention and control through environmental engineering, C. Ray Jeffery; The spatial patterning of burglary, Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham; Some effects of being female on criminal spatial behavior, George F. Rengert; Crime seen through a cone of resolution, Paul J. Brantingham, Delmar A. Dyreson and Patricia L. Brantingham; Cities and crime: a geographic model, Keith D. Harries; The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of crime, Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck; The methods and measures of centrography and the spatial dynamics of rape, James L. LeBeau; Nodes, paths and edges: considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment, Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham. Part V Recent Works in Social, Ecological and Environmental Criminology: Crime measures and the

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Book SynopsisAnomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of society to regulate adequately the behavior of individuals, particularly the efforts of individuals to achieve monetary success. Strain theories focus on the impact of strains or stressors on crime, including the inability to achieve monetary success through legal channels. And subcultural theories argue that some individuals turn to crime because they belong to groups that excuse, justify or approve of crime. This volume presents the leading selections on each theory, including the original statements of the theories, key efforts to revise the theories, and the latest statements of each theory. The coeditors, Robert Agnew and Joanne Kaufman, are prominent strain theorists; and their introductory essay provides an overview of the theories, discusses the relationship between them, and introduces each of the selections.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I The Origins of Strain, Anomie, and Subcultural Theory: Classic Statements; Anomic suicide, Emile Durkheim; Social structure and anomie, Robert K. Merton; Illegitimate means, anomie, and deviant behavior, Richard A. Cloward; The sociology of the deviant act: anomie theory and beyond, Albert K. Cohen. Part II The Development of Strain Theory: Control criticisms of strain theories: an assessment of theoretical and empirical adequacy, Thomas J. Bernard; Delinquency and the age structure of society, David F. Greenberg. Part III General Strain Theory: Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency, Robert Agnew; Gender and crime: a general strain theory perspective, Lisa M. Broidy and Robert Agnew; Building on the foundation of general strain theory: specifying the types of strain most likely to lead to crime and delinquency, Robert Agnew. Part IV The Development of Subcultural Theory: Delinquent subcultures: sociological interpretations of gang delinquency, David J. Bordua; Sub-cultural theory: virtues and vices, Jock Young. Part V Contemporary Subcultural Theories: Angry aggression among the 'truly disadvantaged', Thomas J. Bernard; The code of the streets, Elijah Anderson; Up it up: gender and the accomplishment of street robbery, Jody Miller. Part VI The Development of Anomie Theory: Merton's Social Structure and Anomie: the road not taken, Steven F. Messner; Global anomie, dysnomie, and economic crime: hidden consequences of neoliberalism and globalization in Russia and around the world, Nikos Passas. Part VII Institutional-Anomie Theory: Political restraint of the market and levels of criminal homicide: a cross-national application of institutional-anomie theory, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld; Social organization and instrumental crime: assessing the empirical validity of classic and contemporary anomie theories, Eric P. Baumer and Regan Gustafson; Institutions, anomie, and violent crime: clarifying and elaborating institutional-anomie theory, Steven F. Messner, Helmut Thome and Richard Rosenfeld; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisBiosocial criminology is an emerging perspective that highlights the interdependence between genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of antisocial behaviors. However, given that biosocial criminology has only recently gained traction among criminologists, there has not been any attempt to compile some of the classic articles on this topic. Beaver and Walsh''s edited volume addresses this gap in the literature by identifying some of the most influential biosocial criminological articles and including them in a single resource. The articles covered in this volume examine the connection between genetics and crime, evolutionary psychology and crime, and neuroscience and crime. This volume will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the causes of crime from a biosocial criminological perspective.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Statements on the Biosocial Perspective: Biological perspectives in criminology, Diana H. Fishbein; Segregation and stratification: a biosocial perspective, Douglas S. Massey; Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent anti-social behaviour: a developmental taxonomy, Terrie E. Moffitt; Behavior genetics and anomie/strain theory, Anthony Walsh; H.J. Eysenck in Fagin's kitchen: the return to biological theory in 20th-century criminology, Nicole Hahn Rafter. Part II Genetics and Crime: Behavior genetics of aggression in children: review and future directions, Lisabeth Fisher DiLalla; The new look of behavioral genetics in developmental psychopathology: gene-environment interplay in antisocial behaviors, Terrie E. Moffitt; Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children, Avshalom Caspi, Joseph McClay, Terrie E Moffitt, Jonathan Mill, Judy Martin, Ian W. Craig, Alan Taylor and Richie Poulton; The integration of genetic propensities into social-control models of delinquency and violence among male youths, Guang Guo, Michael E. Roettger and Tianji Cai; The interaction between genetic risk and childhood sexual abuse in the prediction of adolescent violent behavior, Kevin M. Beaver; Sources of exposure to smoking and drinking friends among adolescents: a behavioral-genetic evaluation, H. Harrington Cleveland, Richard P. Wiebe and David C. Rowe. Part III Evolutionary Psychology and Crime: Gene-based evolutionary theories in criminology, Lee Ellis and Anthony Walsh; Self control, social control and evolutionary psychology: towards an integrated perspective on crime, Augustus Brannigan; A gene-based evolutionary explanation for the association between criminal involvement and number of sex partners, Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright and Anthony Walsh; Women and crime: an evolutionary approach, Anne Campbell, Steven Muncer and Daniel Bibel; Why men commit crimes (and why they desist), Satoshi Kanazawa and Mary C. Still. Part IV Neuroscience and Crime: Neuroanatomical background to understanding the brain of the young psychopath, James H. Fallon; The roles of orbital frontal cortex in the modulation of antisocial behavior, R.J.R. Blair; A social neuroscience perspective on adolescent risk-taking, Laurence Steinberg; Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography, Adrian Raine, Monte Buchsbaum and Lori LaCasse; Reduced prefrontal and increased subcortical brain functioning assessed using positron emission tomography in predatory and affective murderers, Adrian Raine, J. Reid Meloy, Susan Bihrle, Jackie Stoddard, Lori LaCasse and Monte Buchsbaum; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the rich and provocative historical, theoretical, methodological, and applied developments within affirmative postmodern and post-structural criminology. This includes the evolution of thought that embraces the linguistic turn in crime, law justice, and social change. Previously-published articles authored by key thinkers are included throughout the book's five substantive sections. Collectively, they represent important reflections on the current criminological landscape in which symbolic, linguistic, material, and cultural realms of analyses are featured.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Theoretical Developments and Integrations: Constitutive criminology: the maturation of critical theory, Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic; The peripheral core of law and criminology: on postmodern social theory and conceptual integration, Bruce A. Arrigo; Post modern criminology: mapping the terrain, Dragan Milovanovic; The French connection: implications for law, crime and social justice, Bruce A. Arrigo, Dragan Milovanovic and Robert C. Schehr. Part II Critical Applications in Law, Crime, Justice and Social Change: Nome law: Deleuze and Guattari on the emergence of law, Jamie Murray; Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker; The power of community mediation: government and formation of self-identity, George Pavlich; Chaos theory and human agency: humanist sociology in a postmodern era, T.R. Young. Part III Transformational Analyses and Marginalized Identities: From restoration to transformation: victim-offender mediation as transformative justice, Robert Carl Schehr; Determinate sentencing: a feminist and postmodern story, Nancy A. Wonders; The abrogation of subjectivity in the psychiatric courtroom: toward a psychoanalytic semiotic analysis, Christopher R. Williams; Creating the responsible prisoner: federal admission and orientation packs, Mary Bosworth; Against 'green' criminology, Mark Halsey. Part IV International, Transnational and Post-National Directions: 'Let them eat cake': globalization, postmodern colonialism, and the possibilities of justice, Susan S. Silbey; Alternatives to what kind of suffering? Towards a border-crossing criminology, Ronnie Lippens; Doing newsmaking criminology from within the academy, Gregg Barak. Part V Postmodern and Post-Structural Criminology and its Interlocutors: Postmodernism, protest, and the new social movement, Joel F. Handler; Postmodern thought and criminological discontent: new metaphors for understanding violence, Martin D. Schwartz and David O. Friedrichs; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisCultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States, Europe, AustrTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, Series Preface, Introduction, PART I. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS, 1. 'Juvenile Delinquency and Subterranean Values', American Sociological Review, 26, pp. 712-19, 2. 'Moral Entrepreneurs', in Outsiders:Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York: The Free Press, pp. 147--63, 3. 'Deviance and Moral Panics', in Folk Devils and Moral Panics, London: Routledge, pp. 1-15; 178-80. (First published 1972 by MacGibbon and Kee Ltd), 4. 'Subcultures, Cultures and Class', in Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson (eds), Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain, London: Hutchinson, pp. 9-74, 5. 'Introduction', in Seductions of Crime, New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-11, PART II. MODELS OF INQUIRY AND CRITIQUE, 6. 'Cultural Criminology', Annual Review of Sociology, 25, pp. 395-418, 7. 'Merton with Energy, Katz with Structure: The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Criminology of Transgression', Theoretical Criminology, 7, pp. 389-414, 8. 'Boredom, Crime, and Criminology', Theoretical Criminology, 8, pp. 287-302, 9. 'Reversing the Ethnographic Gaze: Experiments in Cultural Criminology', in Jeff Ferrell and MarkS. Hamm (eds), Ethnography at the Edge, Boston: Northeastern University Press, pp. 132-45, PART III. CRIME, MEDIA, AND THE IMAGE, 10. 'Media, Representation, and Meaning: Inside the Hall of Mirrors', in Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, London: Sage, pp. 123-57, 11. 'The Scene ofthe Crime: Is There Such a Thing as Just Looking?', in Keith Hayward and Mike Presdee (eds), Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image, London: Routledge, pp. 83-97, 12. 'Mapping Discursive Closings in the War on Drugs', Crime, Media, Culture, 3, pp. 11-29, PART IV. THEORIZING CRIME AND THE CITY, 13. 'Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space', in Michael Sorkin, (ed.), Variations on a Theme Park, New York: Hill and Wang, pp. 154-80; 245, 14. 'Remapping the City: Public Identity, Cultural Space, and Social Justice', Contemporary Justice Review, 4, pp. 161-80, 15. 'Crime Space vs. Cool Space: Breaking Down Broken Windows', in Graffiti Lives, New York: New York University Press, pp. 47-56; 209, PART V. EMOTION, EDGEWORK, AND THE BODY, 16. 'Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking', American Journal of Sociology, 95, pp. 851-86, 17. 'From Carnival to the Carnival of Crime', in Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime, London: Routledge, pp. 31-56, 18. 'The Body Does Not Lie: Identity, Risk and Trust in Technoculture', Crime, Media, Culture, 2, pp. 143-58, PART VI. MARKETS, CONSUMPTION, AND CRIME, 19. 'Crime, Consumer Culture, and the Urban Experience', in City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience, London: GlassHouse, pp. 147-95, 20. 'Squaring the One Percent: Biker Style and the Selling of Cultural Resistance', in Jeff Ferrell and Clinton Sanders, (eds), Cultural Criminology, Boston: Northeastern University Press, pp. 235-76, 21. 'The Chav Phenomenon: Consumption, Media and the Construction of a New Underclass', Crime, Media, Culture, 2, pp. 9-28, 22. 'Cultural Criminology and Primitive Accumulation' versus Jeff Ferrell, 'For a Ruthless Cultural Criticism of Everything Existing', Crime, Media, Culture, 3, pp. 82-100, Name Index

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Book SynopsisControl theories have dominated criminological theory and research since the 1969 publication of Hirschi's seminal work on the social bond. Social control and self-control theorists are unique in suggesting that patterns in criminal behaviors are better explained by variations in social constraints rather than by individual motivational impulses, thus indicating that their main concerns are the explication and clarification of the techniques, processes, and institutions of informal social control. The four major sections of this volume focus on: the similarities and differences among the major contributors to the early developmental stage of social control theory; the central importance of parents, peers, and schools in the creation of informal control mechanisms and their link to crime and delinquency; the theoretical underpinnings of self-control theory, including empirical tests and criticisms; and theoretical integrations of social control and self-control theories with various moTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Early Developments in Social Control Theory: Delinquency as the failure of personal and social controls, Albert J. Reiss; Social disorganization and stake in conformity: complementary factors in the predatory behavior of hoodlums, Jackson Toby; Techniques of neutralization: a theory of delinquency, Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza; A new theory of delinquency and crime, Walter C. Reckless; Delinquency, situational inducements, and commitment to conformity, Scott Briar and Irving Piliavin. Part II Sources of Social Control: Parental attachments and delinquency, Joseph H. Rankin and Roger Kern; Direct parental controls and delinquency, L. Edward Wells and Joseph H. Rankin; Parental monitoring: a reinterpretation, HÃ¥kan Stattin and Margaret Kerr; Parents, peers and delinquency, Mark Warr; A multilevel analysis of the relationships among communal school organization, student bonding, and delinquency, Allison Ann Payne. Part III Self-Control Theory: The empirical status of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime: a meta-analysis, Travis C. Pratt and Francis T. Cullen; An empirical test of a General Theory of Crime: a four-nation comparative study of self-control and the prediction of deviance, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Lloyd E. Pickering, Marianne Junger and Dick Hessing; Testing the core empirical implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime, Harold G. Grasmick, Charles R. Tittle, Robert J. Bursik Jr and Bruce J. Arneklev; Self-control as an executive function: reformulating Gottfredson and Hirschi's parental socialization thesis, Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright and Matt Delisi; A longitudinal test of the effects of parenting and the stability of self-control: negative evidence for the General Theory of Crime, Callie Harbin Burt, Ronald L. Simons and Leslie G. Simons; On the absence of self-control as the basis for a General Theory of Crime: a critique, Gilbert Geis; In defense of self-control, Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson. Part IV Theory Integration: Substantive positivism and the idea of crime, Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson; Toward an interactional theory of delinquency, Terence P. Thornberry; Self-control and social bonds: a combined control perspective on deviance, Douglas Longshore, Eunice Chang, Shih-chao Hsieh and Nena Messina; Crime and deviance over the life course: the salience of adult social bonds, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub; Enduring individual differences and rational choice theories of crime, Daniel S. Nagin and Raymond Paternoster; The class structure of gender and delinquency: toward a power-control theory of common delinquent behavior, John Hagan, A.R. Gillis and John Simpson; Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe developmental and life-course perspective in criminology came to prominence during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s a number of theories were developed to explain offending behavior over the life-course. This volume brings together theoretical statements, empirical tests and debates of these major theories within the developmental and life-course criminology perspective. In the first section of the book, original theoretical statements are provided and this is followed by a section which includes empirical tests of each of these theories conducted by researchers other than the original theorists. The final section of the book provides a summary of the major debates both within the developmental and life-course perspective and also between this perspective and others within criminology. This comprehensive volume provides an informative overview of the developmental and life-course perspective in criminology.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part I Key Theoretical Papers: The social development model: an integrated approach to delinquency prevention, J. David Hawkins and Joseph G. Weis; A developmental perspective on antisocial behavior, G.R. Patterson, Barbara D. DeBaryshe and Elizabeth Ramsey; Life-course desisters? Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub; Life-course-persistent versus adolescence-limited antisocial behavior, Terrie E. Moffitt; The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) theory, David P. Farrington; Situational action theory, Per-Olof H. Wikström, Dietrich Oberwittler, Kyle Treiber and Beth Hardie. Part II Tests of Theory: Problem behavior in the middle school years: an assessment of the social development model, Christopher J. Sullivan and Paul Hirschfield; Two routes to delinquency: differences between early and late starters in the impact of parenting and deviant peers, Ronald L. Simons, Chyi-in Wu, Rand D. Conger and Frederick O. Lorenz; Residential change as a turning point in the life course of crime: desistance or temporary cessation?, David S. Kirk; Delinquent development in a sample of high-risk youth: shape, content, and predictors of delinquent trajectories from age 12 to 32, Victor van der Geest, Arjan Blokland and Catrien Bijleveld; Exploring long-term and short-term risk factors for serious delinquency, André M. van der Laan, Martine Blom and Edward R. Kleemans; Does the effect of self-control on adolescent offending vary by level of morality? A test in three countries, Robert Svensson, Lieven Pauwels and Frank M. Weerman. Part III Debates and Challenges: A life-course view of the development of crime, Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub; Offender classifications and treatment effects in developmental criminology: a propensity/event consideration, Michael R. Gottfredson; Participation and frequency during criminal careers across the life span, Hanno Petras, Paul Nieuwbeerta and Alex R. Piquero; Generality, continuity, and change in offending, Raymond Paternoster, Charles W. Dean, Alex Piquero, Paul Mazerolle and Robert Brame; Marriage and desistance from crime in the Netherlands: do gender and socio-historical context matter?, Bianca E. Bersani, John H. Laub and Paul Nieuwbeerta; Long-term crime desistence and recidivism patterns - evidence from the Essex County convicted felon study, Megan C. Kurlychek, Shawn D. Bushway and Robert Brame. Name index.

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Book SynopsisThe readings selected for this volume reveal the historical development of social learning theory, from its origins in differential association theory, through the role played by psychological behaviorism, to contemporary social learning theory and its further incorporation of social structure as the context within which criminal behavior is learned. The volume dispels common misunderstandings of the theory and emphasizes its foundations in both symbolic interactionism and behaviorism. At its core, the theory remains true to its origins in sociology, reflecting Sutherland's admonition that a complete learning theory must include macro- and micro-sociological processes. Besides conceptual treatments of the theory's development, the volume also presents data-based entries that convey the depth and breadth of social learning theory as an explanation of deviance. Social learning theory is demonstrated to be an explanation that spans the gamut of behaviors from gang activities to drug use to coercive sex to terrorism.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Differential Association Theory: A statement of the theory, Edwin Sutherland; Epidemiology and individual conduct: a case from criminology, Donald R. Cressey; Criminality theories and behavioral images, Daniel Glaser. Part II Behavioral and Cognitive Learning: Behaviorism at fifty, B.F. Skinner; Criminal behavior and learning theory, C. R. Jeffery; Behavior theory and the models of man, Albert Bandura. Part III Social Learning Theory: Theoretical Statements and Responses to Critiques: A differential association-reinforcement theory of criminal behavior, Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers; A social learning perspective on deviant behavior, Ronald L. Akers; The dynamics of delinquent peers and delinquent behavior, Ross L. Matsueda and Kathleen Anderson; Is differential association/social learning cultural deviance theory?, Ronald L. Akers. Part IV Empirical Tests of Social Learning Theory: Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of general theory, Ronald L. Akers, Marvin D. Krohn, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce and Marcia Radosevich; Parental and peer influences on adolescent drug use in Korea, Sunghyun Hwang and Ronald L. Akers; Do adolescents engage in delinquency to attract the social attention of peers? An extension and longitudinal test of the social reinforcement hypothesis, Cesar J.Rebellon; The empirical status of social learning theory: a meta-analysis, Travis C. Pratt et al. Part V The Group Context of Social Learning Theory: Social contexts and social learning in sexual coercion and aggression: assessing the contribution of fraternity membership, Scot B. Boeringer, Constance L. Shehan and Ronald L. Akers; Social learning theory, self-reported delinquency, and youth gangs: a new twist on a general theory of crime and delinquency, L. Thomas Winfree Jr, Teresa Vigil Bäckström and G. Larry Mays; Extending the boundaries of social structure/social learning theory: the case of suicide bombers in Gaza, L. Thomas Winfree and L. Keith Akins. Part VI Social Learning and Social Structure: Social structure and social learning in crime and deviance, Ronald L. Akers; Social learning and social structure: reply to Sampson, Morash, and Krohn, Ronald L. Akers; Gang membership, drug selling, and violence in neighborhood context, Paul E. Bellair and Thomas L. McNulty; Name index.

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Book SynopsisOpportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. They emphasize the fundamental element in the criminal act of opportunity: how this arises, how it is perceived, evaluated and acted on by those with criminal dispositions. This volume brings together influential research articles on opportunity theories of crime by leading theorists such as Cohen and Felson on routine activity theory and Clarke and Cornish on the bounded rational choice perspective. The articles also include more recent theoretical developments and studies of situational crime prevention of specific twenty-first century crimes. These articles attest to the sheer volume as well to as the richness and the variety of work designed to reduce crime that has forever changed the face of criminology and criminal justice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Series Preface, Introduction, PART I. THEORIZING SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF CRIME, 1. 'Delinquency, Environment and Intervention', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 26, pp. 505-23, 2. 'The Situational Analysis of Crime and Deviance', Annual Review of Sociology, 19, pp. 113-37, 3. 'Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior', American Sociological Review, 4, pp. 635-55, PART II. THE PRODUCTION OF CRIMINAL OPPORTUNITIES: ROUTINE ACTIVITY THEORY, 4. 'Human Ecology and Crime: A Routine Activity Approach', Human Ecology, 8, pp. 389-406, 5. 'Routine Activities and Crime Prevention in the Developing Metropolis', Criminology, 25, pp. 911-31, 6. 'Routine Activities and Involvement in Violence as Actor, Witness, or Target', Violence and Victims, 12, pp. 209-21, 7. 'The Demand and Supply of Criminal Opportunities', in M. Tonry and N. Morris (eds), Crime and Justice, 7, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-27, PART III. DECIDING TO COMMIT CRIME: THE RATIONAL CHOICE PERSPECTIVE, 8. 'Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy', in M. Tonry and N. Morris (eds), Crime and Justice, 6, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 147-85, 9. 'Understanding Crime Displacement: An Application of Rational Choice Theory', Criminology, 25, pp. 933-47, 10. 'A Descriptive Model of the Hunting Process of Serial Sex Offenders: A Rational Choice Perspective', Journal ofF amily Violence, 22, pp. 449-63, 11. 'Serendipity in Robbery Target Selection', The British Journal a/Criminology, 50, pp. 514-29, 12. 'Organized Fraud and Organizing Frauds: Unpacking Research on Networks and Organization', Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8, pp. 389--419, 13. 'Parameters for Software Piracy Research', The Information Society, 24, pp. 199-218, PART IV. 'BOUNDED' RATIONAL CHOICE: GOOD ENOUGH OR NOT ENOUGH, 14. 'Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Social Learning Theory in Criminology: The Path Not Taken', Journal a/Criminal Law and Criminology, 81, pp. 653-76, 15. 'Situational Crime Prevention and Its Discontents: Rational Choice Theory versus the Culture of Now', Social Policy and Administration, 41, pp. 232-50, 16. 'Situational Crime Prevention and Its Discontents: Rational Choice and Hann Reduction versus Cultural Criminology', Social Policy and Administration, 44, pp. 40--66, 17. 'Karl Popper: A Philosopher for Ronald Clarke's Situational Crime Prevention?', Israeli Studies in Criminology, 8, pp. 39-56, PART V. VARIANTS BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE AND ROUTINE ACTIVITY, 18. 'Activity Fields and the Dynamics of Crime: Advancing Knowledge about the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 25, pp. 55-87, 19. 'A Classification of Techniques for Controlling Situational Precipitators of Crime', Security Journal, 14, pp. 63-82, 20. 'Going Equipped: Criminology, Situational Crime Prevention and the Resourceful Offender', British Journal of Criminology, 40, pp. 376-98, PART VI. IMPLICATIONS FOR CRIME PREVENTION, 21. 'Situational Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice', British Journal of Criminology, 20, pp. 136--47, 22. 'Routine Activities and Crime Prevention: Armchair Concepts and Practical Action', Studies on Crime and Crime Prevention, 1, pp. 30-34, 23. 'Minimising Corruption: Applying Lessons from the Crime Prevention Literature', Crime, Law & Social Change, 30, pp. 67-87, 24. 'Subway Slugs: Tracking Displacement on the London Underground', British Journal of Criminology, 34, pp. 122-38, 25. 'Assessing the Extent of Crime Displacement and Diffusion of Benefits: A Review of Situational Crime Prevention Evaluations', Criminology, 47, pp. 1331-68, Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection re-imagines the field of criminology with insights gleaned from feminist theory. Works included here illustrate that gender is a key organizing principle of social life. This means that men and women have gender, that patriarchy as well as gender must be theorized, and that other systems of oppression such as race and class must also be studied to fully understand the crime problem and the criminal justice system. Finally, the articles collected here exemplify the feminist concern for thinking consciously about how and why we do our research with the crucial goal of producing knowledge that will promote social justice.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Feminist Epistemology: Researching girls and violence: facing the dilemmas of fieldwork, Michele J. Burman, Susan A. Batchelor and Jane A. Brown; Producing feminist knowledge: lessons from women in trouble, Elizabeth Comack; Women's violence to men in intimate relationships: working on a puzzle, Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash. Part II Patriarchy, Crime and Justice: Women in the street-level drug economy: continuity or change?, Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly; The risks of street prostitution: punters, police and protesters, Teela Sanders; Theorizing about violence: observations from the Economic and Social Research Council's violence research program, Elizabeth A. Stanko. Part III Masculinities and Femininities: Accomplishing femininity among the girls in the gang, Karen Joe Laidler and Geoffrey Hunt; Girls' violence: beyond dangerous masculinity, Katherine Irwin and Meda Chesney-Lind; Missing gender in cases of infamous school violence: investigating research and media explanations, Mona J.E. Danner and Dianne Cyr Carmody; Immigration, masculinity, and intimate partner violence from the standpoint of domestic violence service providers and Vietnamese-origin women, Hoan Bui and Merry Morash. Part IV Intersections: An argument for Black feminist criminology: understanding African American women's experiences with intimate partner abuse using an integrated approach, Hillary Potter; 'It's not where you live, it's how you live': how young women negotiate conflict and violence in the inner city, Nikki Jones; Walking a tightrope: the many faces of violence in the lives of racialized immigrant girls and young women, Yasmin Jiwani; Intersections of immigration and domestic violence: voices of battered immigrant women, Edna Erez, Madelaine Adelman and Carol Gregory. Part V Feminist Assessments of the Criminal Justice Enterprise: Gender bias and juvenile justice revisited: a multiyear analysis, John M. Macdonald and Meda Chesney-Lind; Criers, liars and manipulators: probation officers' views of girls, Emily Gaarder, Nancy Rodriguez and Marjorie S. Zatz; The words change but the melody lingers: the persistence of battered woman syndrome in criminal cases involving battered women, Kathleen J. Ferraro; Moral agent or actuarial subject: risk and Canadian women's imprisonment, Kelly Hannah-Moffat; Embodied surveillance and the gendering of punishment, Jill A. McCorkel; Celling Black bodies: Black women in the global prison industrial complex, Julia Sudbury. Part VI Feminist Perspectives on the Law and on Justice: Predators: the social construction of 'stranger-danger' in Washington state as a form of patriarchal ideology, Neal S. Websdale; Feminist engagement with restorative justice, Kathleen Daly and Julie Stubbs; Gendered war and gendered peace: truth commissions and postconflict gender violence: lessons from South Africa, Tristan Anne Borer; Name index.

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Book SynopsisCriminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific, influential and widely cited criminologists of his generation, producing monumental and pathbreaking works on how the criminal justice system and other key institutions attempt to control crime, manage risk and produce security. This volume, edited by three of Professor Ericson''s colleagues and co-authors, presents a sampling of Ericson''s acclaimed work on such topics as juvenile justice, policing, the courts, the media, the insurance industry, and national security. The book is required reading for scholars interested in understanding the dynamics of crime, risk and security and for those eager to learn more about one of the field''s most important and innovative researchers and scholars.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Being free; Social distance and reaction to criminality; The occupational environment of detective work; Dealing with victim-complainants; Order out of court II: the position of the accused and the plea decision (with Patricia M. Baranek); Patrolling the facts: secrecy and publicity in police work; Media and markets (with Patricia M. Baranek and Janet B.L. Chan); How journalists visualize fact; The moral hazards of neo-liberalism: lessons from the private insurance industry (with Dean Barry and Aaron Doyle); The policing of risk (with Kevin D. Haggerty); Uncertainties of earthquakes: absorbing risk, mitigation, and infrastructure (with Aaron Doyle); National security; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisHonour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Based on interviews of imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters, this title provides an account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers'.Trade Review'...this is, clearly, a book that demands to be read...Onal's bravery is remarkable...her writing shows no fear.' Nicholas Lezard, The GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction by Joan Smith, author of Misogynies p. 9Remziye p. 19Hanim p. 49Cavit Bey and Mehmet Sait p. 75Nuran p. 99Aysel p. 125Naile p. 147Nigar p. 167Fadime and Yeter p. 181Ulviye p. 201Papatya p. 235Afterword p. 253

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Book SynopsisRev. George D. Byers, Presbyterian missionary at Kachek, Hainan island, China, was murdered by bandits in 1924. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Mabel Roys got the government and their church to take action.

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Book SynopsisAll the world's criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences. Typically, this is organized in penal and correctional services in custody in prisons, or in the community, supervised by services such as probation. Bringing together international experts, this book is the go-to source for students, researchers, and practitioners in criminal justice, looking for a comprehensive and authoritative summary of available knowledge in the field.Covering a variety of contexts, settings, needs, and approaches, and drawing on theory and practice, this Companion brings together over 90 entries, offering readers concise and definitive overviews of a range of key contemporary issues on working with offenders. The book is split into thematic sections and includes coverage of: Theories and models for working with offenders Policy contexts of Trade Review"Giving those who offend the opportunity, the resources, and the support to become better people has always seemed the most ethical of penal aims, but in insecure and turbulent times it has invariably been the hardest to defend and sustain. Historically, not all that has been done in rehabilitation’s name has been wise, kind, or effective and it has long needed the sort of critical friends it finds here to ensure that in both theory and practice it is aligned with human rights and goes beyond merely meeting criminogenic needs. Never before have the philosophical, political, and empirical arguments in its favour – and the numerous unresolved tensions in debate about them – been brought together as comprehensibly as they are in this welcome collection. It sets out all the models of good practice and identifies the contexts and cultures in which they are likely to thrive. It faces up squarely to the moral and practical challenges that champions of rehabilitation will always face, including the new technological ones. It makes a better world possible." Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice, University of Strathclyde, UK "Providing effective rehabilitation is a critically important function of the criminal justice system. Significant advances have been made but are hard won, and require careful attention to matching interventions to needs. At the same time, reforms are often compromised by political considerations and resource constraints. This admirable collection by a range of leading scholars and practitioners provides the reader with an up-to-date map and assessment of contemporary theories and practices to help them navigate this complex area, and understand how to choose or implement effective solutions." Dr Stuart Ross, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia "This collection of essays brings together an impressive group of authors to push forward knowledge and thinking on processes of desistance and rehabilitation." Stephen Farrall, Research Professor in Criminology, College of Business, Law and the Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK "The history of punishing crime is intimately tied to the concept of rehabilitation – or the process and potential of reforming people who break the law into law-abiding citizens. Across time and place, academics and practitioners have debated if rehabilitation through criminal justice interventions is possible and whether it ought to be one of the core goals of punishment. The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice provides a fresh international and cross-disciplinary look at these questions, considering rehabilitation and desistance from the perspective of researchers, practitioners, and people experiencing criminal justice contact." Michelle Phelps, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), USA Table of Contents1. An Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice; SECTION ONE: THEORIES AND MODELS FOR WORKING WITH OFFENDERS; 2. Conceptualising Rehabilitation: Four forms, two models, one process and a plethora of challenges; 3. Promoting inclusion and citizenship? Selective reflections on the recent history of the policy and practice of rehabilitation in England and Wales; 4. Should there be a right to rehabilitation?; 5. Human Rights and Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice; 6. Retribution and Rehabilitation: Taking Punishment Seriously in a Humane Society; 7. Restorative Justice: A different approach to working with offenders and with those whom they have harmed; 8. The Evidence-based Approach to Correctional Rehabilitation: Current status of the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model of Offender Rehabilitation; 9. An overview of the Good Lives Model: Theory and evidence; 10. Diversifying desistance research; 11. Doing justice to desistance narratives12. Therapeutic jurisprudence and rehabilitation; SECTION TWO: POLICY CONTEXTS AND CULTURES; 13. The ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ agenda in England and Wales: implications of privatisation; 14. The Rehabilitative Prison: an oxymoron, or an opportunity to radically reform the way we do punishment?; 15. Rehabilitation and re-entry in Scandinavia; 16. Using technology and digitally enabled approaches to support desistance; 17. Prisons, personal development and austerity; SECTION THREE: ASSESSMENT PRACTICE; Chapter 18. Risk and need assessment: Development, critics and a realist approach; 19. A critical review of risk assessment policy and practice since the 1990s; 20. The promises and perils of gender-responsivity: Risk, incarceration, and rehabilitation; 21. Risk and need assessment in youth justice: key challenges; 22. Pre-sentence reports: constructing the subject of punishment and rehabilitation; SECTION FOUR: DIRECT WORK WITH OFFENDERS; 23. Examining community supervision officers’ skills and behaviours: A review of strategies for identifying the inner-workings of face-to-face supervision sessions; 24. Motivational Interviewing: Application to Practice in a Probation Context; 25. Trauma-informed practices with youth in criminal justice settings; 26. Building social capital to encourage desistance: Lessons from a veteran-specific project; 27. Working with veterans and addressing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; 28. Prosocial Modelling; 29. Core Correctional Practices: The Role of the Working Alliance in Offender Rehabilitation; 30. Gut Check: Turning Experience into Knowledge; 31. Applications of Psychotherapy in Statutory Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes: Challenging the Dominance of Cognitive Behavioural Models; 32. Arts-based interventions in the justice system; 33. The use of sport to promote desistance from crime: lessons from across the prison estate; 34. Violent Offenders: Contemporary issues in Risk Assessment, Treatment and Management; 35. Effective approaches to working with sex offenders; 36. ‘Five-minute interventions’ in prison: rehabilitative conversations with offenders; 37. The benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in the criminal justice system: a review of the evidence; 38. Mentoring in the Justice System; 39. The contribution of ex-service users: An Analysis of the Life and Death of a Peer Mentor Employment Rehabilitation Programme; 40. Co-producing outcomes with service users in the penal system; 41. Victim-focused Work with offenders; SECTION FIVE: RESETTLEMENT; Chapter 42. Preparing prisoners for release: Current and recurrent challenges; 43. Prisoner Reentry in the United States; 44. Post-release residential supervision; 45. The Health Needs of People Leaving Prison: A New Horizon to Address; Chapter 46. Rights, Advocacy and Transformation; 47. Strengths-Based Reentry and Resettlement; 48. The Role of Third Sector Organisations in Supporting Resettlement and Reintegration; SECTION SIX: APPLICATION TO SPECIFIC GROUPS; 49. More Sinned against than Sinning: Women’s pathways into crime and criminalisation; 50. What Works with Female Offenders? A UK Perspective; 51. Gender-Responsive Approaches for Women in the United States; 52. Women’s experiences of the criminal justice system; 53. Working with Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in the Penal System; 54. ‘Race’, Rehabilitation and Offender Management; 55. Hamlet’s Dilemma: Racialization, agency, and the barriers to black men’s desistance; 56. Applications of risk prediction technologies in criminal justice: The nexus of race and digitised control; 57. Cultural competency in community corrections; 58. Responding to youth offending: historical and current developments in practice; 59. Youth Justice in Wales; 60. ‘Rights-Based’ and ‘Children and Young People First’ Approaches to Youth Justice; 61. Effective supervision of young offenders; 62. Working with young people in prison; 63 Prevention Work with Young People; 64. Realising the potential of community reparation for young offenders; 65. Foreign national prisoners: Precarity and deportability as obstacles to rehabilitation; 66. End of life in prison: challenges for prisons, staff and prisoners; 67. Older Prisoners: A Challenge for Correctional Services; 68. The role of offenders’ family links in offender rehabilitation; 69. The Impact of Imprisonment on Families; SECTION SEVEN: SECTION SEVEN: CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE; 70. Approaches to working with young people: encouraging compliance; 71. Compliance during community-based penal supervision; 72. The Impact of adjudications and discipline; 73. Electronic monitoring and rehabilitation; 74. Integrated offender management and rehabilitation for adult offenders in England and Wales; SECTION EIGHT: THE MANY HATS OF PROBATION: PRACTICE ETHOS AND PRACTITIONERS’ PERSPECTIVES; 75. Probation worker identities: responding to change and turbulence in community rehabilitation; 76. Probation values in England and Wales: can they survive Transforming Rehabilitation?; 77. Probation and Parole - Shaping Principles and Practices in the Early 21st Century: A US Perspective; 78. How practitioners conceptualise quality: A UK Perspective; 79. The balancing act of probation supervision: The roles and philosophies of probation officers in the evidence-based practice era; 80. Innovations to transform probation supervision: An examination of experiences across eleven US agencies; SECTION NINE: LIVED EXPERIENCES FROM THE LENS OF INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND PRACTITIONERS; 81. Experiencing community-based supervision: the pains of probation; 82. Experiencing Probation: Results from the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) Demonstration Field Experiment: US Perspective; 83. Pain, Harm and Punishment; SECTION TEN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE BASE; 84. Features of Effective Prison-based Programmes for Reducing Recidivism; 85. Performance Measure in Community Corrections: Measuring Effective Supervision Practices with Existing Agency Data; 86. Visual methods and Probation Practice; 87. Evaluating practice: Observation methods; 88. Evaluating Women’s Programmes; 89. Group programmes with offenders; 90. Evaluating Group Programmes: A Question of Design?; 91. The Lost Narrative in Carceral Settings: Evaluative Practices and Methods to Improve Process and Outcomes Within Institutions; 92. Probation research, evidence and policy: the British experience

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and secure hospitals. Including contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from the UK, US, Australia and Canada, the book covers not only the key groups that forensic psychologists work with, but also the treatment options available to them, workplace issues unique to secure settings, and some of the wider topics that impact upon offender populations. The book is divided into four sections: population and issues; treatment; staff and workplace issues; contemporary issues for forensic application. With chapters offering both theoretical rigour and practical application, this is a unique resource that will be essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner of forensic psTrade Review'This is a comprehensive, cutting-edge book ideal for anyone interested in Forensic Psychology. The detailed attention to issues regarding a range of forensic populations and treatment programmes is excellent. The consideration of contemporary issues and the insightful, honest evaluation of the potential challenges of working in secure settings are particularly refreshing. It is an easily-accessible resource that I am sure will be a valued go-to reference for academics, practioners and students. We have needed a volume like this for a long time.' - Dr. Jane L Wood, HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist, Reader, School of Psychology, University of Kent, UK'This outstanding book offers the latest evidence in all areas of forensic psychology practice. The chapters, written by leading authors in the field, aptly capture the complexities of the work, and provide clear guidance for practitioners working in the field. The collection is impressive in its breadth and depth, and will be an essential read for students of forensic psychology and practitioners working in secure settings.' - Joel Harvey, King’s College London, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction SECTION I: POPULATIONS AND ISSUESChapter 2: Young high risk forensic populations: Assessment, treatment, and risk managementChapter 3: Understanding women in prisonChapter 4: Offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesChapter 5: Understanding deception and denial in offendersChapter 6: Self-harm in prisonChapter 7: Assessment issues in offending populationsSECTION II: TREATMENTChapter 8: Treatment with firesettersChapter 9: Sexual offender treatment in forensic and correctional settingsChapter 10: Domestic Violence ProgrammesChapter 11: Empirically-based strategies for treating personality disorderChapter 12. Trauma and its treatment in forensic settingsChapter 13: Contemporary evidence-based approaches to the assessment and treatment of substance-abusing offendersChapter 14: Effective interventions to address acquisitive offendingChapter 15: Modifying Assessment and Treatment for deaf forensic clientsSECTION III: STAFF AND WORKPLACE ISSUESChapter 16: The psychological and emotional effects of prison on prison staffChapter 17: Relationships in prisonsChapter 18: Staff supervision within in forensic settingsChapter 19: The positive practice of safety: Reductions in workplace bullying behaviour through increases in safety and securityChapter 20: The resilient organisationChapter 21: A practical approach to ethical issues for psychologists in prisons and secure settingsSECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES FOR FORENSIC APPLICATIONChapter 22: Functions of critical incidents and their management in secure forensic servicesChapter 23: Understanding terrorismChapter 24: Understanding and intervening with partner abuseChapter 25: Gangs: Best practices in suppression, assessment, and interventionChapter 26: Understanding and managing intra-group aggression among residents in secure settings

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Book SynopsisMadness raises intriguingand complexcriminological questions, not least the famous trio of triability, responsibility, and punishability'. Furthermore, law-enforcement agencies frequently face a choice between invoking the criminal law or using mental-health remedies. And if and when sentences are passed, not all mentally disordered offenders receive treatment. That prompts a number of additional questions, such as: how effective are institutions to which these offenders are sent? And: do mentally disordered offenders differ qualitatively from the criminal population as a whole?As serious research on and around madness and crime continues to flourish, this new four-volume collection from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Criminology series addresses these and other questions. Indeed, Madness and Crime provides an authoritative and highly readable anthology of major works, compiled by one of the leading authorities in the field.

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Book SynopsisSerious research into the problematic and distressing concept of human trafficking continues to blossom. Indeed, the work of scholars in this cross-disciplinary field supports numerous international journals, regional organizations, and global conferences. Now, to make some sense of the wide range of approaches and complex theories that have informed thinking in this area, Routledge announces a new title in its acclaimed Critical Concepts in Criminology series. Edited by a leading scholar with an international reputation, Human Trafficking is a definitive, four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research.The collection is fully indexed and supplemented with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the gathered materials in their historical and intellectual context. Human Trafficking will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be w

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Book SynopsisThe essays selected for this volume show how radical and Marxist criminology has established itself as an influential critique since it emerged in the late 1960s. Unlike orthodox criminology which emphasizes individual level explanations of criminal behavior, radical and Marxist criminology emphasizes power inequality and structures, especially those related to class, as key factors in crime, law and justice. This collection of essays draws attention to the way in which structural forces shape and influence both individual and institutional (for example, governmental) behavior; highlights neglected crime (corporate, governmental, state-corporate and environmental) which causes more extensive damage than the street crimes examined by orthodox criminology; and discusses the ways in which law and criminal justice processes reinforce power structures and contribute to class control.Trade ReviewMichael J. Lynch, winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology. ’...an interesting collection of papers, which gives the reader a good insight in how the strand of RMC has developed over time.’ Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Definitions and Background: Social class and the definition of crime, Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger; From 'crime' to social harm?, Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tombs; Critical criminology and the critique of domination: the story of an intellectual movement, Raymond J. Michalowski; Toward a political economy of crime, William J. Chambliss; The value of quantitative analysis for a critical understanding of crime and society, Steven E. Barkan; Toward a Marxian theory of deviance, Steven Spitzer. Part II Varieties of Radical/Marxist Criminology: The tasks facing a realist criminology, Jock Young; The state of the criminology of crimes of the state, Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs; Corporate violence against Canadian women: assessing left-realist research and policy, Walter S. DeKeseredy and Colin Goff; Rape, sexual inequality and levels of violence, Julia Schwendinger and Herman Schwendinger. Part III Explaining Crime: Class and the economics of crime, David M. Gordon; A cross-national test of Bonger's theory of criminality and economic conditions, Olena Antonaccio and Charles R. Tittle; A tale of two capitalisms: preliminary spatial and historical comparisons of homicide rates in Western Europe and the USA, Steve Hall and Craig McLean; The rate of surplus value and crime: a theoretical and empirical examination of Marxian economic theory and criminology, Michael J. Lynch, W. Byron Groves and Alan Lizotte; A critique of criminology: toward an integrated structural-Marxist theory of delinquency production, Mark Colvin and John Pauly; Delinquency and the age structure of society, David F. Greenberg; Poverty, inequality and youth violence, Ronald C. Kramer. Part IV Social Control: Policing and Punishment: Unemployment, imprisonment and social structures of accumulation: historical contingency in the Rusche-Kirchheimer hypothesis, Raymond J. Michalowski and Susan M. Carlson; The Buffalo police, 1872-1900: labor unrest, politi

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Book SynopsisThis volume contributes to the codification debate by bringing together research articles which compare and contrast the experience of countries which have a criminal code with those operating a case law system. The articles consider the criticisms that are often made of criminal code systems such as: the implicit restrictions on judicial discretion; the tendency towards inflexibility; the discrepancy that can develop between the theory and the development of the law in practice; and the potential difficulty of a criminal code fitting into a country's domestic socio-legal culture. The advantages of the case law system are also considered such as reliance on the judiciary for the development of the nation's criminal law as well as the ability to legislate on the problems of the day by enacting topical laws for distinct subjects. Whereas wholesale codification is a much more accepted phenomenon in the continental law traditions, simplistic transplants from one legal tradition can result Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Forming a Criminal Code: A primer on codification, Ferdinand Fairfax Stone; Structuring criminal codes to perform their function, Paul H. Robinson; Codification of the criminal law (1): the case for a code, A.T.H. Smith; Codification of the criminal law (2): the technique of codification, Francis Bennion; Codification of the criminal law (3): the draft code, complicity and the inchoate offences, Andrew Ashworth; Codification of the criminal law (4): restatement or reform, Celia Wells. Part II Attempts at Codification in England and Wales, and the British Empire: Codification of the laws in seventeenth century England, Barbara Shapiro; Reconstructing the English codification debate: the Criminal Law Commissioners 1833-45, Lindsay Farmer; R.S. Wright’s Model Criminal Code: a forgotten chapter in the history of the criminal law, M.L. Friedland; The codification of the criminal law, Gráinne de Búrca and Simon Gardner; A criminal code: must we wait for ever?, Lord Bingham; Criminal law at the crossroads: the impact of human rights from the Law Commission’s perspective and the need for a code, Mrs Justice Arden. Part III A Comparative Perspective: The challenge of a model penal code, Herbert Wechsler; The five worst (and five best) American criminal codes, Paul H. Robinson, Michael T. Cahill and Usman Mohammad; Jurisprudence in the criminal law, G.L. Radbruch; An empire of light? Learning and lawmaking in the history of German law, Stefan Vogenauer; An empire of light? II: learning and lawmaking in Germany today, Stefan Vogenauer. Part IV Some Benefits and Drawbacks of Codification: On circumstances favouring codification, Mirjan Damaška; Codification and judge-made law: a problem of coexistence, Mr Justice Scarman; Here lies the Common Law: rest in peace, H.R. Hahlo (including comment by L.C.B. Gower); Ibi renascit jus commune, M.R. Topping and J.P.M. Vandenlinden; Codifying the common law: protracted gestation, H.R. Hahlo; Codification and law reform: some lessons from the Canadian experience, Gilles Létourneau and Stanley A. Cohen; Codification of the criminal law: an attainable ideal?, Jenny Lavery. Name index.

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Book SynopsisMalcolm Feeley's work is well-known to scholars around the world and has influenced two generations of criminologists and legal scholars. He has written extensively on crime and the legal process and has published numerous articles in law, history, social science and philosophy journals; two of his books, The Process is the Punishment and Court Reform on Trials, have won awards. This volume brings together many of his better-known articles and essays, as well as some of his lesser-known but nevertheless important contributions, all of which share the common theme of the value of the rule of law, albeit a more sophisticated concept than is commonly embraced. The selections also reveal the full range of his interests and the way in which his research interests have developed.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Theoretical Reflections: Coercion and compliance: a new look at an old problem; The concept of laws in social science: a critique and notes on an expanded view; A solution to the 'voting dilemma' in modern democratic theory; Legality, social research and the challenge of institutional review boards; The Black basis of constitutional development. Part II Organizational Theory, Change, and the Criminal Process: The adversary system; Two models of the criminal justice system: an organizational perspective; The process is the punishment; Bail reform; Responsive law and the judicial process: implications for the judicial function (with Edward L. Rubin); The prison conditions cases and the bureaucratization of American corrections: impacts and implications (with Van Sweareingen); Implementing court orders in the United States: judges as executives. Part III Social Theory and the Criminal Process: The new penology: notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications (with Jonathan Simon); Actuarial justice: the emerging new criminal law, (with Jonathan Simon); Crime, social order, and the rise of neo-conservative politics. Part IV Continuities and Change: History, Social Theory, and the Criminal Process: The Development of Plea Bargaining: Perspectives on plea bargaining; Legal complexity and the transformation of the criminal process: the origins of plea bargaining. Women and Crime: The vanishing female: the decline of women in the criminal process (with Deborah L. Little). Privatization of Punishment: Entrepreneurs of punishment: the legacy of privatization; Name index.

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Book SynopsisChild abuse cases with hard-to-prove allegations pose challenges for all those who seek to protect the welfare of children. Helping courts, evaluators, guardians, and lawyers understand and work with difficult cases, Equivocal Child Abuse brings together insights, experience, and guidance from multiple sources to minimize unnecessary harm done to children and families. Exploring all facets of case management, the book discusses: Legal concepts and theory, the history of guardians ad litem, and the complexity of the processes involved in legal decision making How different court systems operate, the path of a case, and the roles of participants in custody cases The investigative process, the evaluation of report credibility, the use of videotape, perspectives of child custody evaluators, and sample investigations The testimony of expert witnesses, evaluators, guardians ad litem, and treating professionalsTable of ContentsEquivocality in a Complex Legal Context. The Courts: Views Across and Within. Investigation. The Expert in the Courtroom. Practitioner Hazards. Intervention Options. Mental Health Issues. Working Model for the Forensic Evaluator. Top Cat. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe United States stands alone as the only Western democracy that still practices capital punishment. Yet the American death penalty has gone into noticeable decline, with annual death sentences and executions dwindling steadily in recent years. In Stay of Execution, Charles Lane offers a fresh analysis of this unexpected trend and its moral and political implications. Countering conventional wisdom that attributes the death penalty''s decline to public rejection of the ultimate sanction, he shows that it is instead related to the ebbing of violent crime itself. The death penalty is not only more popular than critics claim; it is also less flawed by wrongful executions or racial bias. Lane argues that capital punishment should be preserved, while proposing major reforms to address its real inequities and inconsistencies.Trade ReviewThough partisans often reiterate old talking points in death penalty debates, Charles Lane in Stay of Execution shows repeatedly why there is so much more to learn and say about the modern administration of capital punishment in the United States. Though I have spent much of the last two decades studying and writing about the death penalty, I learned new information and gained new insights from every chapter of Stay of Execution. This book is a must-read not only for students of the death penalty, but for any and everyone concerned about the modern intersection of politics, policy and punishment. -- Douglas A. Berman, William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of LawCharles Lane has written a wise and balanced book about the death penalty. Few topics stir deeper feelings on both sides of the debate. Yet amidst the clamor, we lose sight of the facts, and have difficulty weighing the arguments for and against in a balanced way. This is just what Lane does. His account is a model of fair mindedness, and though some will disagree with his conclusion that the death penalty should be retained, though only for a narrower set of especially terrible crimes, few can fail to be impressed with the judicious manner in which he assesses the arguments of advocates and abolitionists alike. This book is must reading for anyone interested in the future of the death penalty, and in its relation to the principles of federalism and democratic government. -- Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor and former dean, Yale Law SchoolThe perennial death-penalty debate is crowded with partisans and absolutists twisting facts and data to reach ideologically driven conclusions. Now comes Charles Lane with a balanced, reasoned, factually and statistically meticulous analysis that dismantles distortions by both sides—and by various courts. Lane will disappoint abolitionists by showing support for the death penalty among Americans to be so strong, and with justification, as to make Euro-style abolition unlikely and unwise. He also demonstrates that the undoubted risk of executing innocents has been exaggerated and the racism that once infected death-sentencing so deeply has diminished. Lane will disappoint death penalty enthusiasts by showing that indiscriminate classification of robbery-killings and most other murders as capital crimes brings inconsistent application within and between states, injustices, and endless delays, with no clear proof that the penalty deters (or that it does not deter) crime. Lane ends with a promising proposal to limit the penalty to "the worst of the worst," such as multiple and serial murderers, those using especially monstrous methods, and imprisoned terrorists who orchestrate hostage-takings and killings from prison. -- Stuart Taylor, Jr., contributing editor to Newsweek and National JournalThis book is everything the debate over the American death penalty is not: thoughtful, morally serious, and careful with facts. Lane's book forced me, an ardent foe of capital punishment, to rethink some arguments I had once found persuasive. Whatever your views on the subject, this brief, engagingly-argued volume will challenge them. It should be required reading for everyone interested in this difficult subject. -- Ben Wittes, fellow at the Brookings InstitutionLane, a Washington Post staff writer, approaches the perennially controversial subject of capital punishment from two angles. He assesses the cases for and against the death penalty, concluding that each has legitimate points and that each also contains some serious flaws (for example, one of the anchors of the case against is the idea that it’s racially unequal, but, the author shows, the racial disparity is frequently overstated by death-penalty opponents). The real issue here, Lane says, is the apparent contradiction surrounding the capital-punishment debate: polls indicate a majority of people support the death penalty, while they also believe that it is not a deterrent (which itself points up a flaw in the pro–death penalty argument). Not so much a discussion of whether capital punishment is right or wrong, or morally justified or repellent, the book is rather a thoughtful overview of the subject. Lane’s conclusion about capital punishment—the law works, but it’s application is clunky—is sure to provoke spirited debate. * Booklist *In his debut, Lane puts himself squarely in the camp of the 'pro-death penalty American majority,' yet believes that its application reveals 'troubling flaws.' Addressing the lack of a standards in sentencing that allows counties to act autonomously, Lane says that 'There is no ‘American criminal justice system,' but rather 3,141 criminal justice systems.' He studies the use and abuse of capital punishment, and uncovers statistical evidence of racism (until 1967, Southern courts defined the rape of a white woman by a black man as a capital crime.) Lane dismisses claims that the penalty is a deterrent, comparing the homicide rate in Canada, where the death penalty was abolished in 1967, with that of the U.S. Lane feels that the death penalty should be used sparingly, not as retribution but as a 'special penalty' for 'special crimes' in order to affirm the sanctity of human life, and breaking with the European Union's definition of capital punishment as a human-rights issue ('everyone has an absolute right not to be put to death by the state'). A member of the Washington Post's editorial board, Lane has produced a careful, considered examination of a divisive issue. * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane succinctly makes the case in this slim volume for shrinking the death penalty in order to save it. The Supreme Court has pruned around the edges in recent years, barring capital punishment for offenders who are mentally retarded or were juveniles at the time they committed the crime. But Lane argues that state legislators and Congress should now take the lead in ensuring capital punishment is reserved for 'the worst of the worst' crimes. He would limit the death penalty to acts of genocide, terrorism and the most heinous pre-meditated murders, such as those involving torture and rape, while excluding single murders committed in the course of more common felonies, such as robberies. Lane would also centralize state decision-making about who gets charged with capital crimes. He is not too concerned about alleged racial bias or executing the innocent, neither of which he says is as large or ineradicable a problem as foes insist. Rather, he is troubled most about the inconsistent way capital punishment is applied. But Lane's eminently reasonable proposals are unlikely to be well received among lawmakers skittish about ratcheting back the war on crime or local prosecutors reluctant to cede control over capital punishment. * The Washington Post *Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane succinctly makes the case in this slim volume for shrinking the death penalty in order to save it. * Sunday Denver Post *Lane makes sensible suggestions that would make the application of the death penalty a bit more fair. * The Federal Lawyer *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Disappearance of Death? Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Case Against the Case Against the Death Penalty Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The Case Against the Case for the Death Penalty Chapter 5 Chapter 4: A Special Penalty for Special Cases Chapter 6 Acknowledgments Chapter 7 Endnotes Chapter 8 Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is unfortunate but in my 20 years in law enforcement I can recall many of the same victims' stories as told in The Con. James and Jelita have provided historical and statistical information with actual accounts of these frauds through the victims and suspects perspectives. These victims' stories along with the tips and resources can help raise awareness and hopefully help individuals prevent or recover from these ever prevalent crimes. -- Michael B. Dana, Financial Crimes Detective, Dallas Police DepartmentThis is the best book about scams I have ever read. It is a wake-up call for all those who think they can't be conned. The compelling stories show how real-world cons unfold, why they work and what we must do to protect ourselves. An essential and entertaining guide to spotting and avoiding scams in everyday life. -- Julieann Dimmick, attorney, formerly of the Office of the General Counsel, Enforcement; US Department of the TreasuryI have had the honor of reviewing Jelita McLeod and James Munton's manuscript on con games, titled The Con; How scams work, Why you are vulnerable and How to Protect Yourself. Looking over each of the chapters of the collection of con games played on unsuspecting victims and the personalized stories, I am reminded of many of the reports I have taken on a variety of scams. As a law enforcement officer and a magician, I have lectured on flim flam to many groups over the years. Jelita and James book is an interesting collection of many of the more popular cons played out throughout the world. The sad part is, how this affects the victim. Suicides have been a part of how the victim dealt with being swindled. Some, of older age, have been confined to a nursing home as their children felt their parents could not cope in the world after being scammed and losing everything they had. I am most impressed with the Warning Signs and Tips to Protect Yourself at the end, along with a vast array of Resources a person can contact should the unthinkable occur. Overall, I recommend this to everyone as a training guide to alert them as to the seedy side of people. I recommend this book to citizens and law enforcement personnel who want to educate themselves on many of the scams that are occuring daily. Jelita and James have performed a great service by writing this book and putting it out so all can understand the mechanics of the con and how to protect yourself. As the old adage goes, if it is too good to be true, it probably is. -- Glenn Hester, police officer, Glynn County, GAThis book is a must read. Well written, informational and entertaining, it is full of interesting stories that drive home the number and variety of scams in operation, how intelligent people fall for these scams and how to protect yourself. There were scams that I had not heard of even after being in the security business for over 15 years. -- Marta Zaricznyj, CEO and security consultant, Znovation, LLCThe popular cultural depiction of a con shows an ingenious bit of skulduggery pulled off by a charming schemer or schemers. Think The Sting and Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. But the prevalence of cons—40 times more common than car theft and burglary—and the range of its perpetrators, from family members to global Internet scammers, demand more vigilance than do other crimes. Magician and expert on deception Munton, abetted by writer McLeod, goes behind the scenes to present stories of ordinary con victims to dissect how scams are perpetrated and the elements and tactics of typical cons. The authors go on to detail seven categories of con, from foreign lottery and sweepstakes scams to reshipping schemes to fraudulent home repair. From telemarketing tricks to crimeware, they describe how scammers use technology to gain access to potential victims. They also detail how to protect against the cons, identify possible setups, and reduce the likelihood of falling into conning traps. Finally, they advise readers on recovering from identity theft. Completely fascinating and insightful. * Booklist *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Scams 101: Admitting there's a Problem Chapter 2: Know the Enemy: Elements of a Con Chapter 3: The Weakest Link: Why Scams Work Chapter 4: Mayhem in the Mail: Avoiding Postal Pitfalls Chapter 5: Up Close and Personal: Danger on Your Doorstep Chapter 6: Dialing for Dollars: Fending Off Phone Fraud Chapter 7: Fortifying the Firewall: Evading Electronic Scams Chapter 8: Out and About: Sidestepping Street Swindles Chapter 9: Don't Mix Business With Pleasure: Affinity Fraud & Investment Scams Chapter 10: It Ain't Me: Identity Theft Chapter 11: Recovering from Identity Theft Appendix A: Cheat Sheet: Takeaway Tips Appendix B: Resources

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