The fifth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed The Politics of the Police has been
completely revised, expanded, and updated to take in recent changes in the law, policy, and …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …

Through a critical examination of European immigration policy and using the case of Afghan
asylum seekers in the European continent, this article argues that the politics of labelling …

Social constructionism proposes that how we understand and perceive the world is a
product of how the world is represented or produced through language, and depends upon …

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Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the
mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on …

This title examines the role of political culture and penal populism in the response to the
emotive subject of child-on-child homicide. Green explores the reasons underlying the vastly …

How can the study of comparative criminal justice avoid the opposite dangers of
ethnocentrism and relativism? The problem is examined taking as an example Cavadino …

The purpose of this chapter is to map some of the most salient developments in
transnational policing, to locate and explain their causes and to identify current trends and …

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses
that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed …