Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in Criminology

Offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using case studies from throughout the world, this title considers the rituals, symbols, the meanings, values, legitimations, relations (formal as well as informal), and the spaces and artifacts involved in the (re)production of gambling organizations.

Examines how we can prevent children from engaging in offending behaviour and therefore prevent the pre-school children from influencing the crime statistics.

Takes a look at the class-crime relationship written from a biosocial perspective, a perspective that views nature and nurture as the heads and tails our development and of our existence.

This book considers the intellectual legacy of James F. Short, Jr., to criminology and sociology, and covers the full range of his pioneering research on suicide and homicide, criminological theory, self-report methodology, microsocial group processes, and the etiology of gang violence and delinquency.

The binary model of sexuality can be devastating for people left outside the category of heterosexuality. This book investigates why men launch assaults on sexual minorities, why these attacks are so vicious and irrational, the identities of perpetrators and their victims, and why such violence seems to have some acceptance in some fields.

Providing a criminological framework for understanding the fear of crime, this book reposes the increasingly important debate around antisocial behaviour and the internationally understood idea of moral panics.

Examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors' treatment of China's death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative. Their analyses of the death penalty in contemporary China focuses on its theory - how it should be done in law - and actual practice - based on available secondary reports/sources.

This book expands the literature on social harm by applying the concept of zemia to international human trafficking. It draws attention not only to various structurally imbedded harms, but also to the wider consequences of such harms.

This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production, representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level, facilitating an examination of the geopolitics of international criminal justice. Such an approach to crime is well-developed in domestic criminology; however, this critical approach is yet to be used to explore the relationship between power, crime and justice in an international setting. This book brings together contrasting opinions on how courts, prosecutors, judges, NGOs, and other bodies act to reflexively produce the social reality of international justice. In doing this, it bridges the gaps between the fields of sociology, criminology, international relations, political science, and international law to explore the problems and prospects of international criminal justice and illustrate the role of crime and criminalization in a complex, evolving, and contested international society.

The public outcry against corporate misconduct has never been louder. Union Carbide, Continental Airlines, Enron, Goldman Sachs, and BP find themselves staring at potential criminal prosecutions. The spotlight now focuses on the criminal law and whether it is capable of dealing with these corporate `villains.¿ This book examines the legal challenges facing the world¿s legal systems and analyzes the laws of corporate criminal liability throughout Europe.

Examines how security has (re-)emerged as the dominant ordering principle of social life. This title details institutional restructuring under this ordering principle and analyzes through specific case studies how it is shaping our public life locally and globally.