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 …

Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence, historical analysis and
theoretical argument, this book shows beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making …

Even in formally open, liberal, democratic states, a series of barriers exist as obstacles to
critical criminologists who wish to conduct research that scrutinises the activities of powerful …

Introduction various forms of fraud and corruption are not just present, but are widespread in
the economies of both income-rich and income-poor countries. As this book goes to press …

In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched,
catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or …

The study analyses the relations and processes underpinning grand corruption in the health
sector in Greece. Viewed from a systemic-structural perspective, corruption is examined as a …

Recent years have seen an increasing use of private internal investigations assessing
financial irregularities that often imply economic crime. When fraud examiners discover …

The promotion of night-time economies in town centres across Britain has sparked new fears
about disorder, violence and binge-drinking. However, there has been little consideration of …

If academic criminology currently stands in rude health, this obscures a range of deeply
disturbing trends in the content of the discipline. We begin by exploring the recent boom in …

This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other
powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a …