Book Series in Criminology
Key Ideas in Criminology
New & Published Titles:
Public Criminology?
What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy?…
read moreJuly 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44550-4 (Routledge)
Genocidal Crimes
Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. No corner of the world seems immune from this form of collective…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46678-3 (Routledge)
Security
Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts, policy changes, and world political events have…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39176-4 (Routledge)
Rehabilitation
Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38643-2 (Routledge)
Penal Populism
Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38508-4 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Edited by Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and President of the British Society of Criminology. He has written and researched widely on issues of crime and justice.
Key Ideas in Criminology explores the major concepts, issues, debates and controversies in criminology. The series aims to provide authoritative essays on central topics within the broader area of criminology. Each book adopts a strong individual 'line', constituting original essays rather than literature surveys, and offer lively and agenda setting treatments of their subject matter. These books will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in criminology, sociology, social policy, cultural studies, law and political science.
Forthcoming Titles:
The Corporate Criminal
By Steve Tombs, David Whyte
To be published March 30th 2011
Feminist Criminology
By Claire M. Renzetti
To be published February 28th 2011
Surveillance
By Benjamin Goold
To be published February 28th 2011
Contemporary Critical Criminology
By Walter S. DeKeseredy
To be published August 16th 2010