SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime
This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.
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Social Policies and Social Control
New Perspectives on the 'Not-So-Big Society'
An innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare systems and social policies, and the implications for disadvantaged groups.
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Social Protection after the Crisis
Regulation without Enforcement
This topical book considers the economic, political and social consequences of the economic crisis, the nature of social protection and the dynamics of the current crisis of regulation. It is unique in documenting how economic and social welfare are inconsistent with corporate freedom.
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Women and Criminal Justice
From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation
This book focuses on developments since the publication of the 2007 Corston Report into women and criminal justice. The challenges of working with women in the current climate also explored, translating lessons from good practice to policy development and recommending future directions arising from the ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ plans.
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Female Serial Killers in Social Context
Criminological Institutionalism and the Case of Mary Ann Cotton
This book explores how institutions such as the family, economy and religion shaped the environment and social integration of 19th century serial killer Mary Ann Cotton. It will equip criminologists with a methodological toolkit for performing institutional analysis.
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What Matters in Policing?
Change, Values and Leadership in Turbulent Times
This topical book compares the implications of restructuring in the UK and The Netherlands, also in the USA, regarding police systems, policing paradigms and research knowledge. The authors argue for developing confident leadership and also provide a comprehensive paradigm to chart policing in the future while retaining trust.
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Vulnerability and Young People
Care and Social Control in Policy and Practice
Draws on in-depth research with marginalised young people and the professionals who support them to explore the implications of a ‘vulnerability zeitgeist’, asking how far the rise of vulnerability in welfare and criminal justice processes serves the interests of those who are most disadvantaged.
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Responding to Hate Crime
The Case for Connecting Policy and Research
Bridging the gap between research and policy, this book provides new perspectives on the nature of hate crime victimisation and perpetration.
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Leading Policing in Europe
An Empirical Study of Strategic Police Leadership
In this unique book, the authors present, for the first time, information from over a hundred strategic police leaders in 22 countries about how they are selected for high office, how they are held to account and what their views are on current and future challenges in policing.
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Childhood and Youth
Addresses moralising within discourses of childhood and youth and asks how we might do things differently.
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The State
Through case-study examples this Byte explores individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics.
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Moral Regulation
This byte teases out some of the fundamentally moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body.
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