Articles in the Research & Reference category
Routledge has an illustrious history in research and reference publishing. You can explore this area of the site to learn more about our featured research, reference, monographs, handbooks and major works in Criminology & Criminal Justice. In addition, you can visit one of following areas for broad representation of our reference publishing program:
In this collection of original essays, Andresen and Kinney bring together new research on the geometry of crime, patterns in crime, and crime generators and attractors.
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In Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice, Ralph Henham argues that there is an increasing gap between what society percieves as legitimate punishment and the sentencing decisions of criminal courts.
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Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Using intensive interviews with 131 female heroin users, Huan Gao explores the careers of these women in China under the changing social contexts of the reform era.
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Emotions, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television considers emotions as structures of feeling that are collectively shared and historically developed. The author, Deidre Pribram, focuses on the justice genres—movie and television programs concerned with crime, law, and social order—to examine how fictional police, detective, and legal stories participate in collectively realized conceptions of emotion.
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Essays in the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology cover the history of critical criminology, cutting edge theories, and a variety of research methods used by leading scholars in the field.
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Young adults aged 18-21 are at the peak age for offending, but they have been neglected in comparison with offenders under 18. There are few programs specially for the 18-21 set, and they are increasingly held in adult prisons rather than Young Offender Institutions.
This book analyzes theoretical and policy issues relating to this group, and explores different approaches to crime prevention and the treatment of offenders.
The Handbook on Sexual Violence examines violence on a continuum ranging from verbal abuse to rape in war and murder. This handbook provides an historical, contemporary, and future context for the the sociological, psychological, and economic dimensions of sexual violence.
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In Police Custody, Layla Skinns (University of Sheffield) uses the findings of two mixed-method studies to examine the socio-legal and theoretical matters connected to due process, the role of the police in policing, as well as procedural justice and legitimacy.
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Security and Everyday Life uses case studies from multiple countries to illustrate how our private and public life is shaped by security meta-frame and surveillance.
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