Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Criminology

In recent decades, the nature of criminal punishment has undergone change in the United States. This case study of women serving time in California in the 1960s and 1990s examines key points in this recent history. In this 2005 book, the authors begin with a look at imprisonment at the California Institution for Women in the early 1960s, when the rehabilitative model dominated official discourse. They compare women's experiences in the 1990s, at the California Institution for Women and the Valley State Prison, when the recent 'get tough' era was near its peak. Drawing on archival data, interviews, and surveys, their analysis considers the relationships among official philosophies and practices of imprisonment, women's responses to the prison regime, and relations between women prisoners. The experiences of women prisoners reflected the transformations Americans have witnessed in punishment over recent decades, but they also mirrored the deprivations and restrictions of imprisonment.

This field study, featuring intensive interviews of youth living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver, examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive, victimization, involvement in crime, contacts with the police, and efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised.

Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes, and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's use of waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles accused of violent crime to criminal court.

Why do youths commit crimes? Delinquency and Crime contains essays by nine leading criminologists that seek to answer this question by describing current theories of crime and the research evidence that supports them. The contributors offer perspectives on antisocial peer socialization, social development, interactional theory, behavior genetics, and community determinants.

A comprehensive overview of prevention programmes in pregnancy, infancy, pre-school, parent education and training and school programmes. It also focuses on family violence and whether risk factors and prevention programmes have different effects for females compared to males. Cost-benefit analyses of early prevention programmes are also reviewed.

The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life, especially childhood, in American cities safer. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some areas. The authors also review a variety of intervention strategies.

This book examines recent changes in the UCR and the NCVS and assesses the effect these have had on divergence. By focusing on divergence, the authors encourage readers to think about how these data systems filter the reality of crime.

This 2005 book investigates the current state of industrial espionage, showing the far-reaching effects of advances in computing and wireless communications and provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime in the burgeoning information society.

This book examines the use of force by police officers. It includes a brief survey of prior research, and then goes on to present important data and findings. The authors put forward a conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining and assessing police use of force.

A comprehensive review and critique of the current research about the role of the school in preventing delinquency, substance use, drop-out, and truancy. Examining school-based prevention programs and practices for grades K-12, this 2001 book identifies a broad array of effective strategies for making schools safer and more productive environments.

In this 2002 book, Britta Kyvsgaard examines the nature and aspects of the 'criminal career' through her longitudinal analysis of 45,000 Danish offenders. The data, unparalleled in size and quality, allows powerful analyses of criminal behavior, even among relatively small demographic subgroups. Her findings suggest rehabilitation as an alternative worthy of further research.

Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to return them to compliant status? Simpson's aim is to examine whether a shift towards criminal law with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization will be a successful crime control strategy.

Between 1965 and 1990, federal judges in almost all of the states handed down sweeping rulings that affected virtually every prison and jail in the United States. This book provides an account of this process, and uses it to explore the more general issue of the role of courts in the modern bureaucratic state.

Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar offenders. David Weisburd and Elin Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the criminal careers of people convicted of white-collar crimes. Weisburd and Waring uncover some surprising findings, which upset common wisdom about white-collar criminals. Many scholars have assumed that white-collar criminals are unlikely to have multiple or long records or repeat offenses. As the authors demonstrate, a significant number of white-collar criminals have numerous brushes with the law and their careers show marked similarities to the circumstances and life patterns of street criminals. Their findings illustrate the misplaced emphasis of previous scholarship in focusing on the categorical distinctions between criminals and non-criminals. Rather, their data suggest the importance of the immediate context of crime and its role in leading otherwise conventional people to violate the law.

This book examines how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development. The authors examine the origins of gang membership and the social and psychological factors that lead some youths to join a gang. They show that gang membership increases the chances of developmental problems.

A fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy, examining the prospect of assessing policies based on their impact on errors of justice: the error of failing to bring offenders to justice and the error of imposing costs on innocent people and excessive costs on offenders.

Unable to keep up with increased numbers of convicted offenders, governments and criminal justice systems are seeking new ways to control and punish offenders. One sanction adopted in Canada, parts of Europe and the US is community custody. This book analyses its effectiveness and its implications for offenders and society.