1st Edition
Handbook on Crime
The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime.
This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature.
The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.
Biography
Fiona Brookman is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminology at Glamorgan University.
Mike Maguire is Professor in Criminology at the Unviersity of Glamorgan and Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cardiff.
Harriet Pierpoint is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Glamorgan.
Trevor Bennett is Professor and Head of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Glamorgan.
'The book boasts a list of experienced, international authors from both academia and the business world with many considered as experts in their field. What makes the book particularly attractive is the way that authors have drawn on their personal knowledge and insights to unravel some of the complexities of legal and political discourse.'
'The quality of this publication is such that every academic lecturer, researcher, and student who embarks on a study course in crime or criminal justice should be encouraged to place a copy on their shelves.'
-Christopher Blake in Policing, vol 5 iss 3