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This book considers the need for and the steps to be taken towards creating a meaningful framework for a global index of women's deaths from intimate partner violence.

What does contemporary criminological theory look like?What impact does it have on policy?What might its future be?This substantially revised and updated text provides the student with an accessible understanding of the current nature of criminological theory. Its main focus is on development in criminological theorising over the past twenty-five years paying particular attention to 'right realism', 'left realism' and developments arising from...

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This book considers the need for and the steps to be taken towards creating a meaningful framework for a global index of women¿s deaths from intimate partner violence.

Building on the success of the previous edition, this book will provide an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology and will feature new chapters on intersectionality, sexuality, crimes of the powerful and hate crime, as well as psychological perspectives.

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular.

...the clarity in which the wide range of relevant issues are presented throughout the book makes this must-reading for new entrants to this field and for students."International Review of VictimologyThis book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes of the last twenty five years. In so doing it addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a consequ...

Building on the success of the previous edition, this book will provide an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology and will feature new chapters on intersectionality, sexuality, crimes of the powerful and hate crime, as well as psychological perspectives.

This book contains a selection of criminological authors who have been authoritatively engaged in studying criminology and war. Following an introduction that `places war within criminology¿ the collection is arranged across three themed sections, including: `Theorising War, Law and Crime¿, `Linking War and Criminal Justice¿, and `War, Sexual Violence and Visual Traumä. The chapters within this collection are theoretically rich, empirically di...

Provides a very clear, easily readable introduction to the wide range of criminological theories."Anne Rees, University of Portsmouth, UK What does contemporary criminological theory look like? What impact, if any, does it have on policy?The new edition of this bestselling text updates a key title in the Crime and Justice series, whilst maintaining it's trademark theory-intensive approach to Criminology. In this third edition, the author pays ...

Over the last fifteen years there has been a significant growth in literature dealing with terrorism. Nevertheless, scholars within mainstream criminology have only recently begun to grapple with the problem of terrorism in a sustained fashion. In this provocative book the authors provide both an exposition of the contradictions that have emerged around the regulation of terrorism and an incisive analysis of the questions that the management o...

This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together into one coherent volume a range of international authors, who firmly establish the relevance of war within the discipline of criminology. The chapters address emerging and prevailing issues in the criminological study of war, including state crime, corporate crime, victimology, genocide, policing, security and various forms of violence. Taking a critical standpoint including feminist, cultural, ...

First published in 1989, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of the victims of crime and the way in which they are treated in society generally, and in the criminal justice process in particular. Sandra Walklate examines the nature of the interest in the subject, and the contributions of victim-related research and criminal victimization surveys, in order to be able to provide the reader with a critical assessment of t...

Criminology is a discipline that is constituted by its subject matter rather than being bound by an agreed set of concepts or way of thinking. This fully updated third edition of Criminology: The Basics is a lively and engaging guide to this compelling and complex subject. This edition also includes new sections on genocide, terrorism, cultural victimology, and Westo-centric thinking.Concise and accessible, this book utilises chapter summaries...

This book contains a selection of criminological authors who have been authoritatively engaged in studying criminology and war. Following an introduction that `places war within criminology¿ the collection is arranged across three themed sections, including: `Theorising War, Law and Crime¿, `Linking War and Criminal Justice¿, and `War, Sexual Violence and Visual Traumä. The chapters within this collection are theoretically rich, empirically di...