Supranational Criminology

Author : Alette Smeulers,Roelof Haveman
Publisher : Intersentia NV
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000065232705

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Supranational Criminology by Alette Smeulers,Roelof Haveman Pdf

The study of international crimes - such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide - deserves to grow into a separate and fully fledged specialization within criminology, called supranational criminology. Supranational criminology entails the study of international crimes, behavior that shows affinity with these crimes, the causes and the situations in which they are committed, as well as interventions and their effectiveness. What exactly entails supranational criminology? What are international crimes? Should other forms of behavior also be qualified as international crimes? What are the specific characteristics of international crimes as forms of state sponsored or state facilitated crimes? Explanatory theories have to be developed which can be translated into testable hypotheses. Which theories from mainstream criminology can provide answers for the prevalence or causes of international crimes? Have the international courts and tribunals succeeded in their aim? This book repairs the fundamental and historical neglect of criminology and breaks out of a state of denial by putting international crimes on the criminological agenda.

Author : Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412815277

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Cutting the Edge by Jeffrey Ian Ross Pdf

Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today's academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past mistakes or reinventing the wheel. Cutting the Edge by Jeffrey Ian Ross will encourage individuals and organizations, especially students and instructors, to innovatively identify ways of experimenting with new policy initiatives designed to improve not only criminal justice, but social and human justice as well. Ross has significantly changed this volume to include six new chapters and three revised ones as well. The studies chosen demonstrate the difference between critical criminology and other approaches used to study and explain criminological phenomena. The authors do not approach the inequalities of the criminal justice system as phenomena that should be studied, but as wrongs that must be righted. Cutting-edge critical criminology combines concerns about fairness in punishment, tools of class analysis and the insights of feminism, postmodernism, and ethnography. The authors included here wield these newer tools with elegance and enthusiasm. Written with passion by experts in the field, the book engages the mind as fully as it engages the emotions.

Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742547132

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Criminology by Gregg Barak Pdf

Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new. "A fine collection...the volume is informed by a tone of gentle compassion for seemingly insignificant lives."--Michiko Kakutani,New York Times

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Criminology beyond crime by The Open University Pdf

Author : David Nelken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317163152

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Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization by David Nelken Pdf

In this exciting and topical collection, leading scholars discuss the implications of globalisation for the fields of comparative criminology and criminal justice. How far does it still make sense to distinguish nation states, for example in comparing prison rates? Is globalisation best treated as an inevitable trend or as an interactive process? How can globalisation's effects on space and borders be conceptualised? How does it help to create norms and exceptions? The editor, David Nelken, is a Distinguished Scholar of the American Sociological Association, a recipient of the Sellin-Glueck award of the American Society of Criminology, and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. He teaches a course on Comparative Criminal Justice as Visiting Professor in Criminology at Oxford University's Centre of Criminology.

Author : Elizabeth Stanley,Jude McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136233630

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State Crime and Resistance by Elizabeth Stanley,Jude McCulloch Pdf

Within criminology ‘the state’ is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such crimes may be contested, prevented, challenged or stopped. Gathering together key scholars from the UK, USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book offers a deepened understanding of state crime through the practical and analytical lens of resistance. This book focuses on crimes ranging from gross violations of human rights (such as genocide, war crimes, mass killings, summary executions, torture, harsh detention and rape during war), to entrenched discrimination, unjust social policies, border controls, corruption, fraud, resource plunder and the failure to provide the regulatory environment and principled leadership necessary to deal with global warming. As the first to focus on state crime and resistance, this collection inspires new questions as it maps the contours of previously unexplored territory. It is aimed at students and academics researching state crimes, resistance, human rights and social movements. It is also essential reading for all those interested in joining the struggles to champion ways of living that value humanity and justice over power.

Author : Walter S. DeKeseredy,Molly Dragiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135192808

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Handbook of Critical Criminology by Walter S. DeKeseredy,Molly Dragiewicz Pdf

This collection of essays offers students, faculty, policy makers and others an in-depth overview of the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists.

Author : Ross McGarry,Sandra Walklate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137431707

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The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and War by Ross McGarry,Sandra Walklate Pdf

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, and radical approaches amongst others, the Handbook is split into five clear sections: (1) The Criminogenic Contexts of War; (2) Violence and Victimization at War; (3) Violence, War and Security; (4) Perpetrators of Violence and the Aftermath of War; and (5) Cultural and Methodological Developments for a Criminology of War. Edited by two leading experts in the field, this Handbook provides an original point of reference on the contemporary debates and applications of criminology and war and will be a key resource for academics and students across criminology, international relations, critical military studies, military sociology, peace studies and law.

Author : Sandie Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317497578

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Crime and Criminality by Sandie Taylor Pdf

The question of ‘why’ and ‘how’ certain individuals are drawn towards behaving in a way that contravenes the ‘Law of the Land’ is not an easy one to address. Researchers from various different fields have nevertheless attempted to develop theoretical explanations for the existence of different types of crime and why some individuals commit such acts. Crime and Criminality draws on criminology, sociology, psychology and neuroscience to offer a balanced perspective of crime, the criminal and criminality. Coverage includes: a comprehensive discussion of theoretical approaches to criminal behaviour, including biological, social and ‘rational choice’ approaches; an analysis of legal and social definitions of crime and how these definitions influence the way specific behaviours are labelled as criminal; an examination of different types of crime and criminals, from delinquents to ‘psychopaths’ and sex offenders; an exploration of different ways in which crime is predicted, including risk assessment and offender profiling and an overview of investigative techniques. Addressing a broad range of topics and offering a synthesis of competing theoretical explanations of criminality, this book is essential reading for students taking courses in criminology, criminal psychology, criminal behaviour, forensic psychology and psychological criminology.

Author : Carsten Stahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108423205

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A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law by Carsten Stahn Pdf

Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Ilias Bantekas,Emmanouela Mylonaki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107060036

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Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law by Ilias Bantekas,Emmanouela Mylonaki Pdf

A practical guide to what motivates international crimes and how these are structured and investigated in theory and practice.

Author : Ingrid Lander,Signe Ravn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317099932

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Masculinities in the Criminological Field by Ingrid Lander,Signe Ravn Pdf

Over recent decades criminological research has changed from a gender-blind discipline which equated crime with men and thus ignored questions about gender, to an approach that studied gender by showing statistical differences between men and women, and then finally to a more inclusive and elaborate gender-theoretical approach to crime and crime control. However, despite this development, research on gender - and in particular research on gendered norms and the construction and enactment of masculinities - within the criminological field has been unable to keep up with developments in gender research. Since 1990, only a few anthologies with a gender-theoretical orientation focusing on masculinities within the criminological research field have been published. Many of the theoretical developments in gender research still have difficulties in reaching into mainstream criminology, partly because such developments are often published in feminist and/or gender theoretical journals. This volume both problematizes and renders visible conceptions and norms regarding male behaviour and masculinities and shows how these affect the criminological field through providing a theoretically sound and clear gender perspective to this field of research. With sections based around the following three themes: negotiations of masculinity in institutional settings, vulnerable masculinities and risk-taking and masculinities, this volume will be of interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, social work and gender studies, as well as policy-makers, and law enforcement professionals.

Author : McGarry, Ross,Walklate, Sandra
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529202663

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A Criminology of War? by McGarry, Ross,Walklate, Sandra Pdf

In recent years, the academic study of ‘war’ has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Providing a critique of mainstream criminology, the authors question whether a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so, how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.

Author : Alex Alvarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134035816

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Genocidal Crimes by Alex Alvarez Pdf

Genocidal Crimes draws upon the extensive criminological literature on criminality and violence to provide a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of genocide. Written in an accessible style, this book differs from much of the writing on genocide in that it explicitly relies on criminological theory and research to help provide new insight into the nature and functioning of genocide.

Author : Ralph A. Weisheit,Jessica Rene Peterson,Artur Pytlarz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000577327

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Research Methods for Rural Criminologists by Ralph A. Weisheit,Jessica Rene Peterson,Artur Pytlarz Pdf

Conducting rural criminological research exposes researchers to concerns such as absence or inadequate official data about crime and superficial rural-urban comparisons, rural isolation and distance from the researchers’ office to the study site, and lack of services or access to justice. This distinct cultural context means that studying rural crime requires creatively adapting existing research methods. Conducting research about or in rural settings requires unique researcher preparation, as everything from defining the space at the conception of a project to collecting and analyzing data differs from urban research. This book explores the various issues, challenges, and solutions for rural researchers in criminology. Integrating state of the art methodological approaches with practical illustrations, this book serves as an internationally comprehensive compendium of methods for students, scholars, and practitioners. While contributing to the growing field of rural criminology, it will also be of interest to those engaged with the related areas of rural health care, rural social work, and rural poverty.