Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

James F Short

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs, focusing on the role of poverty and ethn... Lees meer

Murder

Shani D'Cruze, Sandra Walklate, Samantha Pegg

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to i... Lees meer

State Crime

Alan Doig

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK. The use of crime by the UK to achieve its policy and political o... Lees meer

Inequality, Crime, And Social Control

George S Bridges, Martha a Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book brings together the most recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal be... Lees meer

Casualties Of Community Disorder

Deborah Baskin, Ira Sommers

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book provides a detailed account of the criminal careers of 170 women who committed violent street crimes in New York City, describing their entr... Lees meer

Armed Robbery

Roger Matthews

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• Despite the significance of armed robbery in the criminal justice system, the media and in the public mind there has been little systematic research o... Lees meer

Cybercrime

David S Wall

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society | nr. 4
• How has the internet transformed criminal behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What new criminal... Lees meer

Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime

Brandon Welsh, David P Farrington, Lawrence Sherman

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often ... Lees meer

Fraud

Alan Doig

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• Fraud remains one of the most important crimes and causes billions of pounds of losses each year, many thousands of people are employed to try to prev... Lees meer

Burglary

Rob Mawby

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the public... Lees meer

Safety Crimes

Steve Tombs, Dave Whyte

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands... Lees meer

Drugs and Crime

Richard Hammersley

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society | nr. 3
• Why are we so concerned about drugs and crime? Is the relationship between drug-taking and criminal behaviour as straightforward as it is sometimes ma... Lees meer

Rape And Society

Patricia Searles, Ronald Berger

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book focuses on rape and illuminates the interconnections among the many forms of violence against women. It includes work by social scientists a... Lees meer

Breaking Away From Broken Windows

Ralph Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• "In Breaking Away from Broken Windows Ralph Taylor uses data on recent Baltimore crime-reduction efforts to attack the 'broken windows' thesis--that i... Lees meer

State Crime

Alan Doig

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK. The use of crime by the UK to achieve its policy and political o... Lees meer

Control Balance

Charles R Tittle

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• A major contribution to the field of crime/deviance, this volume by noted criminologist Charles R. Tittle puts forth an integrated theory of deviance-... Lees meer

Betrayals And Treason

Nachman Ben-Yehuda

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• In this book, the author identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty and charts the different manifestations... Lees meer

Street Crime

Simon Hallsworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• Street crime remains high on the public and political agenda, and is frequently the subject of media attention and concern. This book aims to provide ... Lees meer

Car Crime

Claire Corbett

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• Crime involving cars - whether involving offences by drivers or theft of and from cars - represents a substantial proportion of offences committed, an... Lees meer

Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime

Brandon Welsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• "What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often... Lees meer

Betrayals And Treason

Nachman Ben-Yehuda

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• This book identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty, and charts the different manifestations and construct... Lees meer

Restructuring Schools

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• Restructuring Schools presents conceptual and empirical models of school organization for promoting students' achievement. Papers by nationally recogn... Lees meer

Breaking Away From Broken Windows

Ralph Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Crime and Society
• "In Breaking Away from Broken Windows Ralph Taylor uses data on recent Baltimore crime-reduction efforts to attack the 'broken windows' thesis--that i... Lees meer

Crime, Culture and the Media

Eamonn Carrabine

• Paperback | Engels | Crime and Society
• Why are newspapers and television programmes filled with stories about crime and criminals? Is their portrayal of crime accurate? How do the media tra... Lees meer