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Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

Editat de Gerben Bruinsma, Henk Elffers, Jan De Keijser
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2012
This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415627979
ISBN-10: 0415627974
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Willan
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Part 1: Introduction  1. Challenges for criminological and criminal justice research  2. Criminology and criminal justice in Europe, Michael Tonry  Part 2: Punishment and Criminal Justice  3. Risk assessment and criminal law: closing the gap between criminal law and criminology  4. Actuarial justice and the modern state  5. Punishment, retribution and communication  6. Of crimes and punishment  7. The weakest link: human rights and the criminal offender in modern democratic government  8. European trends and transatlantic inspiration: youth offending and juvenile justice  9. Reflections on the relationship between transnational policing and organized crime  Part 3: Location and Mobility  10. The emergence of crime places in crime prevention  11. The journey to crime  12. Decision models underlying the journey to crime  13. Transnational organized crime: new directions for empirical research and public policy  Part 4: Perpetrators and Criminal Careers  14. Analysis of criminal careers  15. The development of aggression: causes and trajectories  16. A semi-parametric, group-based approach for analysing trajectories of development: a non-technical overview  17. Peers, crime and the life course  18. The changing role of delinquent peers in childhood and adolescence: issues, findings and puzzles

Notă biografică

Gerben Bruinsma is Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.
Henk Elffers is Co-ordinator of Research at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.
Jan De Keijser also works at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

Descriere

This book reviews key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice from a multidisciplinary and international approach. It also goes on to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline.