Criminology - Law Books

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41. Revenge versus Legality

    Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib

    By Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, James Guimond

    Series: Birkbeck Law Press

    In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a...

    Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
42. Radicalization

    The Life Writings of Political Prisoners

    By Melissa Dearey

    Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world. Criminologists and penologists have long been...

    Published July 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
43. Men, Law and Gender

    Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law

    By Richard Collier

    What does it mean to speak of ‘men’ as a gender category in relation to law? How does law relate to masculinities? This book presents the first comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between men, law and gender; outlining the contours of the ‘man’ of law across diverse...

    Published July 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
44. Cross-Border Law Enforcement

    Regional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European, Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    Edited by Saskia Hufnagel, Clive Harfield, Simon Bronitt

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

    This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each...

    Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
45. The Courts of Genocide

    Politics and the Rule of Law in Rwanda and Arusha

    By Nicholas Jones

    The Courts of Genocide focuses on the judicial response to the genocide in Rwanda in order to address the search for justice following mass atrocities. The central concern of the book is how the politics of justice can get in the way of its administration. Considering both the ICTR (International...

    Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
46. Existentialist Criminology

    Edited by Donald J Crewe, Ronnie Lippens

    Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their...

    Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
47. Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

    Edited by Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang, Rosemary Barberet

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing...

    Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
48. Policing and Human Rights

    The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg

    By Julia Hornberger

    Series: Law, Development and Globalization

    Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how...

    Published April 27th 2011 by Routledge
49. Conflict and Crisis Communication

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Carol Ireland, Martin Fisher, Gregory Vecchi

    Conflict and crisis communication is the management of a critical incident which has the potential for resolution through successful negotiations. This can include negotiating with individuals in crisis, such as those threatening self-harm or taking individuals hostage as part of emotional...

    Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge
50. Professionalizing Offender Profiling

    Forensic and Investigative Psychology in Practice

    Edited by Laurence Alison, Lee Rainbow

    Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender...

    Published April 17th 2011 by Routledge