Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

Punishment, Places and Perpetrators
Author: Gerben Bruinsma
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135998396

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States.

Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

Punishment, Places and Perpetrators
Author: Gerben Bruinsma
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135998469

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States.

Guidelines Manual

Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1996-11
Genre: Sentences (Criminal procedure)
ISBN:

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Author: Cesare Beccaria
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2006
Genre: Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN: 1584776382

Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.

Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

Punishment, Places and Perpetrators
Author: Gerben Bruinsma
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9780415627979

This book reviews key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice from a multidisciplinary and international approach. It also goes on to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline.

The Handbook of Crime and Punishment

The Handbook of Crime and Punishment
Author: Michael Tonry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0198027109

Crime is one of the most significant political issues in contemporary American society. Crime control statistics and punishment policies are subjects of constant partisan debate, while the media presents sensationalized stories of criminal activity and over-crowded prisons. In the highly politicized arena of crime and justice, empirical data and reasoned analysis are often overlook or ignored. The Handbook of Crime and Punishment, however, provides a comprehensive overview of criminal justice, criminology, and crime control policy, thus enabling a fundamental understanding of crime and punishment essential to an informed public. Expansive in its coverage, the Handbook presents materials on crime and punishment trends as well as timely policy issues. The latest research on the demography of crime (race, gender, drug use) is included and weighty current problems (organized crime, white collar crime, family violence, sex offenders, youth gangs, drug abuse policy) are examined. Processes and institutions that deal with accused and convicted criminals and techniques of punishment are also examined. While some articles emphasize American research findings and developments, others incorporate international research and offer a comparative perspective from other English-speaking countries and Western Europe. Editor Michael Tonry, a leading scholar of criminology, introduces the 28 articles in the volume, each contributed by an expert in the field. Designed for a wide audience, The Handbook is encyclopedic in its range and depth of content, yet is written in an accessible style. The most inclusive and authoritative work on the topic to be found in one volume, this book will appeal to those interested in the study of crime and its causes, effects, trends, and institutions; those interested in the forms and philosophies of punishment; and those interested in crime control.

Extending Offender Mobility

Extending Offender Mobility
Author: Stijn Van Daele
Publisher: Maklu
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9046605140

Environmental criminology brings together a range of theories and areas for study. One of these domains is the study of offender mobility: how offenders move to (and sometimes from) crime sites, how they select their targets, where they start, the distance they cover, and the direction they move in. Inspired by routine activity theory, rational choice perspectives, and pattern theory, as well as principles of human ecology and foraging behavior, offender mobility studies have come to a number of recurrent findings. However, most of these studies use similar data samples and settings, as they deal with local offenders operating in urban neighborhoods. This book extends this line of research by examining another sample in another setting. Through the study of so-called 'itinerant crime groups' in Belgium, the mobility of a sample of foreign offenders is investigated in a nation-wide setting. Mobility patterns of these offenders are studied through a variety of methods and techniques, including quantitative and qualitative analyses of crime statistics, case files, and offender interviews. (Series: Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy [IRCP] - Vol. 43)

Technologies of InSecurity

Technologies of InSecurity
Author: Katja Franko Aas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2008-08-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134040369

Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday life. Who are we afraid of in a globalizing world? How are issues of safety and security constructed and addressed by various local actors and embodied in a variety of surveillance systems? Examining how various forms of contemporary insecurity are translated into, and reduced to, issues of surveillance and social control, this book explores a variety of practical and cultural aspects of technological control, as well as the discourses about safety and security surrounding them. (In)security is a politically and socially constructed phenomenon, with a variety of meanings and modalities. And, exploring the inherent duality and dialectics between our striving for security and the simultaneous production of insecurity, Technologies of Insecurity considers how mundane objects and activities are becoming bearers of risks which need to be neutralised. As ordinary arenas - such as the workplace, the city centre, the football stadium, the airport, and the internet - are imbued with various notions of risk and danger and subject to changing public attitudes and sensibilities, the critical deconstruction of the nexus between everyday surveillance and (in)security pursued here provides important new insights about how broader political issues are translated into concrete and local practices of social control and exclusion.

Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere

Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere
Author: Chrisje Brants
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509900187

Transparency is a fundamental principle of justice. A cornerstone of the rule of law, it allows for public engagement and for democratic control of the decisions and actions of both the judiciary and the justice authorities. This book looks at the question of transparency within the framework of transitional justice. Bringing together scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum, the collection analyses the issue from socio-legal, cultural studies and practitioner perspectives. Taking a three-part approach, it firstly discusses basic principles guiding justice globally before exploring courts and how they make justice visible. Finally, the collection reviews the interface between law, transitional justice institutions and the public sphere.

The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making
Author: Wim Bernasco
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2017-05-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190674741

Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as large variety crimes including homicide, robbery, domestic violence, burglary, street crime, sexual crimes, and cybercrime. Lastly, it provides in-depth treatments of the major methods used to study offender decision-making, including experiments, observation studies, surveys, offender interviews, and simulations. Comprehensive and authoritative, the Handbook will quickly become the primary source of theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge about decision-making as it relates to criminal behavior.