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By Tine Munk, Morag Kennedy
October 01, 2024
Examining how victimisation can occur across the online-offline continuum while emphasising the need for a holistic approach to understanding and addressing contemporary harms, this book covers various themes of victimisation in the digital age linked to the interconnectedness and blurred ...
By Deniese Kennedy-Kollar
June 03, 2024
This book presents an analysis of the male supremacist ideology of the internet-based subculture known as the manosphere and examines the process of radicalization to violent extremism that occurs within the group. The manosphere is the online subculture comprised of several distinct groups who ...
By Ignacio González-Sánchez
June 03, 2024
Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first 40 years of democracy, this book puts forward the importance of studying punishment from a sociological perspective and examines the neoliberal penality thesis. Today, Spain has more police officers and more people in prison than...
By Alison Gerard, Andrew McGrath, Emma Colvin, Annette Gainsford
May 27, 2024
The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction (New South Wales), focusing on residential care, policing, the provision of legal services and ...
By Joshua Stuart-Bennett
May 27, 2024
Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the ...
By Mark S. Davis
March 12, 2024
Criminology, the discipline that informs our understanding of crime and justice, is facing an identity crisis. Long dominated by sociology’s view of crime and its causes, criminology has recently witnessed the rise of a new cadre of academics who feel free to explore other explanations. Fairness ...
By Julio Montanez, Amy Donley, Amy Reckdenwald
January 29, 2024
Between Systems and Violence offers a compilation and analysis of state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and/or refugee (IMR) lives. The book analyzes such statutes’ legal language via various theoretical lenses, as well as provides a discussion of implications ...
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By Victoria M. Nagy, Georgina Rychner
December 22, 2023
Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women’s offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to women as offenders as ...
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By Kathryn M. Campbell, Stephanie Wellman
December 19, 2023
Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. Both Indigenous and ...
By Gilbert McLaughlin
December 12, 2023
Radicalisation is a conceptual investigation within Western liberal democratic societies that follows an analytical framework linking expertise theory to discourse analysis of publications from the academic, governmental, and non-governmental spheres, as well as a dozen interviews with experts in ...
By Yarin Eski
September 25, 2023
For many, the arms trade and its dealers are the root cause of regional wars and global terrorism. In both public and academic debates, arms dealers are considered immoral as they profit from conflict, due to their key position in the international arms trading business. Nevertheless, there seems ...
By Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin
September 25, 2023
This book offers an analytical review of the state of knowledge on elderly sexual abuse and presents new data that will confront some of the accepted ideas and some of the myths associated with this specific form of sexual violence. Sexual violence research has often considered children to be the ...