This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its
historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. It examines various …

SAGE was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable
knowledge by publishing innovative and high-quality research and teaching content. Today …

What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should,
its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in …

Police culture has for over half a century attracted interest from academics, students, policy-
makers, police institutions and the general public. However, the literature of this area has …

This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few
empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to …

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern
for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the …

Based on participant observation in a team of British policy-making civil servants carried out
in 2009, this article examines the use that is made of evidence in making policy. It shows that …

In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of
women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the …

Abstract In Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America, Indigenous
peoples continue to experience incarceration at markedly disproportionate rates. Some …

Restorative justice is the policy of eschewing traditional punishments in favour of group
counselling involving both victims and perpetrators. Until now there has been no critical …