Marking Time in the Golden State

Candace Kruttschnitt, Rosemary Gartner

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• The nature of criminal punishment has undergone profound change in the United States in recent decades. This case study of women serving time in Calif... Lees meer

Understanding Crime Statistics

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• In Understanding Crime Statistics, Lynch and Addington draw on the work of leading experts on U.S. crime statistics to provide much-needed research on... Lees meer

Race and Policing in America

Ronald Weitzer, Steven A Tuch

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Race and Policing in America is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on racial differences. It utilizes both the authors' own res... Lees meer

Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying

Hedieh Nasheri

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Hedieh Nasheri investigates the current state of industrial espionage, revealing the far-reaching effects of advances in computing and wireless commun... Lees meer

The Framework of Judicial Sentencing

Austin Lovegrove

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Austin Lovegrove examines the thinking of judges as they sentence multiple offenders, and identifies the strategies judges have developed to help them... Lees meer

What Works in Corrections

Doris Layton MacKenzie

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• What Works in Corrections, first published in 2006, examines the impact of correctional interventions, management policies, treatment and rehabilitati... Lees meer

Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective

Terence P Thornberry, Marvin D Krohn, Alan J Lizotte, Carolyn A Smith, Kimberly Tobin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• To reveal how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development, the authors examine the origins of gang membership and the social an... Lees meer

Recriminalizing Delinquency

Simon I. Singer

• Hardcover | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Recriminalizing Delinquency examines attempts to transfer jurisdiction over juveniles accused of violent crime to criminal court. Lees meer

Drug-Crime Connections

Trevor Bennett, Katy Holloway

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are ... Lees meer

White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers

David Weisburd, Elin Waring, Ellen F Chayet

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Studies of the criminal career to date have focused on common criminals and street crime; criminologists have overlooked the careers of white-collar o... Lees meer

Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying

Hedieh Nasheri

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Hedieh Nasheri investigates the current state of industrial espionage, revealing the far-reaching effects of advances in computing and wireless commun... Lees meer

Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control

Sally S Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• 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? ... Lees meer

Life in the Gang

Scott H Decker, Scott Decker

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• This study is based on three years of field work with ninety-nine active gang members and twenty-four family members. The book describes the attractiv... Lees meer

Criminality and Violence Among the Mentally Disordered

Sheilagh Hodgins, Carl-Gunnar Janson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• In recent years there has been a significant increase in crime among persons suffering from major mental disorders. The authors attempt to describe th... Lees meer

Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour

Terrie E Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Why are females rarely antisocial and males antisocial so often? This is one of the key questions addressed in a fresh approach to sex differences in ... Lees meer

Mean Streets

John Hagan, Bill McCarthy

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the str... Lees meer

Errors of Justice

Brian Forst

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Written by a scholar with extensive research experience, this book applies an original approach to assessing criminal justice policies, based on their... Lees meer

Violent Crime

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. The risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of v... Lees meer

Legacies of Crime

Peggy C Giordano

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys who were followed over a twenty-year period as they navigated the transiti... Lees meer

The Framework of Judicial Sentencing

Austin Lovegrove

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Austin Lovegrove examines the thinking of judges as they sentence multiple offenders, and identifies the strategies judges have developed to help them... Lees meer

The Criminal Recidivism Process

Edward Zamble, Vernon L Quinsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• This book addresses how and why criminal offenders repeat their actions after being released from prison. It is part of an attempt to explain criminal... Lees meer

Street Justice

Bruce A Jacobs, Richard Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Street criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot realistically rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow... Lees meer

Errors of Justice

Brian Forst

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Written by a scholar with extensive research experience, this book applies an original approach to assessing criminal justice policies, based on their... Lees meer

Companions in Crime

Mark Warr

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• The idea of peer influence as a cause of delinquency has been around since the 1930s, when Edwin Sutherland offered his theory of differential associa... Lees meer