Causes & prevention of crime books

1664 books were found.

The Spatial Scale of Crime: How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime

The Spatial Scale of Crime: How Physical and Social...

Author: John R. Hipp
ISBN: 9781032202389
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Combining insights from two distinct research traditions—the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why...  Read More >>

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports: An Evaluation of Sport-Based Programmes and Their Effectiveness

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports: An Evaluation of...

Author: Yvon Dandurand (University of the Fraser Valley) ,  Jon Heidt (University of the Fraser Valley)
ISBN: 9781529228496
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Sports-based crime prevention programmes are increasingly popular world-wide but until now there has been very little...  Read More >>

Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm

Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and...

Author: Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield, UK University of Sheffield, England, UK University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) ,  Tammy Ayres (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367685874
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm

Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and...

Author: Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield, UK University of Sheffield, England, UK University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) ,  Tammy Ayres (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9780367685881
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking...  Read More >>

The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism

The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism...

Author: Thomas Raymen
ISBN: 9780367565947
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this...  Read More >>

The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism

The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism...

Author: Thomas Raymen
ISBN: 9780367565930
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this...  Read More >>

Urban Crime Prevention: Multi-disciplinary Approaches

Urban Crime Prevention: Multi-disciplinary Approaches...

Author: Miguel Saraiva
ISBN: 9783031151071
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas...  Read More >>

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Third Edition

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics...

Author: Roberta Garner ,  Michael Ash
ISBN: 9781487527297
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The Joy of Stats opens the door to statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences with a brief and...  Read More >>

Crime and Deviance in the Colleges: Elite Student Excess and Sexual Abuse

Crime and Deviance in the Colleges: Elite Student Excess...

Author: Maurice Punch (Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9781529228106
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Timely and urgent, this book examines university culture regarding both sexual violence and excess in elite student...  Read More >>

On Target: Gun Culture, Storytelling, and the NRA

On Target: Gun Culture, Storytelling, and the NRA

Author: Noah S. Schwartz
ISBN: 9781487548445
Format: Paperback
$57.99

On Target explores how the National Rifle Association (NRA) became such a powerful and recognizable force in American...  Read More >>

Geographies of Gender-Based Violence: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

Geographies of Gender-Based Violence: A Multi-Disciplinary...

Author: Hannah Bows (Durham University) ,  Bianca Fileborn (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781529214499
Format: Hardback
$443.39

What role does physical and virtual space play in relation to gender-based violence? Experts from the Global North...  Read More >>

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Third Edition

The Joy of Stats: A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics...

Author: Roberta Garner ,  Michael Ash
ISBN: 9781487527280
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The Joy of Stats opens the door to statistics and quantitative analysis in the social sciences with a brief and...  Read More >>

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides

Author: Louis B. Schlesinger (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA)
ISBN: 9780367711573
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides, Second Edition encapsulates the authors’ 45 years of experience...  Read More >>

Shame the Devil: A twisty, unputdownable crime thriller

Shame the Devil: A twisty, unputdownable crime thriller...

Author: Graeme Hampton
ISBN: 9781804360835
Format: Paperback
$25.85

'If you are a fan of British police procedurals, add Shame the Devil to your must-read list.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review...  Read More >>

Gendered Perspectives on Preventing Violent Extremism: Women and 'Prevent'

Gendered Perspectives on Preventing Violent Extremism:...

Author: Sam Andrews (University of Lincoln)
ISBN: 9781529221558
Format: Hardback
$185.00

The UK’s ‘Prevent’ strategy aims to prevent radicalisation and often engages with women as mothers; enlisted to...  Read More >>

BADNESS: From the author of the number one bestselling crime book I CATCH KILLERS

BADNESS: From the author of the number one bestselling...

Author: Gary Jubelin ,  Dan Box
ISBN: 9781460760536
Format: Paperback
$34.99

FROM THE HOST OF THE HIT PODCAST I CATCH KILLERS THE BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2022 As a cop, I used...  Read More >>

Evidence-Based Policing and Community Crime Prevention

Evidence-Based Policing and Community Crime Prevention...

Author: James McGuire ,  Emily Evans
ISBN: 9783030763657
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book addresses and reviews progress in a major innovative development within police work known as evidence-based...  Read More >>

The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg

The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk...

Author: Martin Murray
ISBN: 9780472055470
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based)...  Read More >>

The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg

The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk...

Author: Martin Murray
ISBN: 9780472075478
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based)...  Read More >>

Violence: Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling

Violence: Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling...

Author: David Wästerfors (Lund University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781032204383
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined and explored by social researchers...  Read More >>

One Hot Summer: The BRAND NEW shocking, page-turning psychological thriller from Anita Waller

One Hot Summer: The BRAND NEW shocking, page-turning...

Author: Anita Waller ,  Lesley Harcourt (Narrator)
ISBN: 9781804152997
Format: Paperback
$25.85

'A great cast of characters, a riveting storyline, a nail-biting climax' Valerie Keogh 'By page 3 I was hooked....  Read More >>

One Hot Summer: The BRAND NEW shocking, page-turning psychological thriller from Anita Waller

One Hot Summer: The BRAND NEW shocking, page-turning...

Author: Anita Waller
ISBN: 9781804152959
Format: Paperback
$59.49

'A great cast of characters, a riveting storyline, a nail-biting climax' Valerie Keogh 'By page 3 I was hooked....  Read More >>

One Hot Summer: The BRAND NEW shocking, page-turning psychological thriller from Anita Waller

One Hot Summer: The BRAND NEW shocking, page-turning...

Author: Anita Waller ,  Lesley Harcourt (Narrator)
ISBN: 9781804152942
Format: Hardback
$59.49

'A great cast of characters, a riveting storyline, a nail-biting climax' Valerie Keogh 'By page 3 I was hooked....  Read More >>

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