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Routledge Advances in Criminology


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This series explores the critical issues within criminology and offers the latest insight into the field through international case studies and timely theoretical debates.

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Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads

1st Edition

By Gian Maria Campedelli
January 29, 2024

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and research on crime; examines the current state of the art in this area of scholarly inquiry; and discusses future perspectives...

Sexuality and Crime A Neo-Darwinian Perspective

Sexuality and Crime: A Neo-Darwinian Perspective

1st Edition

By Anthony Walsh
June 16, 2023

Written by one of the leading figures in biosocial criminology and evolutionary psychology, this work explores the tight relationship between criminality and indiscriminate sexuality within the framework of life history theory. The underlying thesis is that traits associated with a strong libido, ...

Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminological Research

Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminological Research

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli
March 31, 2023

Building on the editors’ previous publication, Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research, this new book brings together a fresh collection of leading international scholars tackling ethical dilemmas in criminological research. Contributors address how they have experienced and ...

The Pleasure of Punishment

The Pleasure of Punishment

1st Edition

By Magnus Hörnqvist
December 19, 2022

Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to ...

Criminology and Democratic Politics

Criminology and Democratic Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Tom Daems, Stefaan Pleysier
June 30, 2022

Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics. How does criminology relate to democratic politics? What has been the impact of criminology on crime and justice? How can we make ...

Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology Reflections on the Intellectual Legacy of James F. Short, Jr.

Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology: Reflections on the Intellectual Legacy of James F. Short, Jr.

1st Edition

Edited By Lorine Hughes, Lisa Broidy
June 30, 2022

Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology brings together leading scholars to commemorate the illustrious career and enduring contributions of Professor James F. Short, Jr., to the social sciences. Although Professor Short is best known as a gang scholar, he was a bridging figure who...

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology The Case for Criminal Thinking

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking

1st Edition

By Glenn D. Walters
June 30, 2021

Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology: The Case for Criminal Thinking offers a multi -stage model of theory integration that organizes verified risk factors around the construct of criminal thinking to provide an exemplar working paradigm for criminology. In the model, once relevant risk ...

Mafia Violence Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans

Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans

1st Edition

Edited By Monica Massari, Vittorio Martone
June 30, 2020

Using in-depth field research and analysis of case studies, Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans focuses attention on the phenomenon of violence performed by Italian organised crime groups, devoting specific attention to the Camorra, which has been ...

Analytical Criminology Integrating Explanations of Crime and Deviant Behavior

Analytical Criminology: Integrating Explanations of Crime and Deviant Behavior

1st Edition

By Karl-Dieter Opp
May 05, 2020

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfactory situation a new research program of comparative theory testing is proposed. Comparing the theories with each other has not yet been ...

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: A Metatheory for Biosocial Criminology

1st Edition

By Anthony Walsh
April 28, 2020

Some of the brightest minds in criminology who were nurtured on the strictly environmentalist paradigm of the 20th century have declared that biosocial criminology is the paradigm for the 21st century. This book attempts to unite this ever-growing field with the premier neurobiological theory of ...

Frank Tannenbaum The Making of a Convict Criminologist

Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Convict Criminologist

1st Edition

By Matthew G. Yeager
December 14, 2015

Frank Tannenbaum and the Making of a Convict Criminologist is a historical biography about Columbia University professor Frank Tannenbaum and his contribution to American criminology. Tannenbaum was a major figure in criminology in the early twentieth century, and is known for his contributions to ...

Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media

Drugs and Popular Culture in the Age of New Media

1st Edition

By Paul Manning
October 16, 2015

This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media—including social networking and video file-sharing sites—transform the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented....

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