Offenders books

Drawing on extensive life-history interviews with serious violent offenders, this book offers a unique socio-historical...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control reveals how the American approach to deviance has been...  Read More >>

HMP Bronzefield, the UK's largest women's prison: notorious for bent screws and drugs: But what's the truth...  Read More >>

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This book tackles the important question of how we can understand and learn from the school rampage killings that...  Read More >>

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, this text offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology,...  Read More >>

44% of parolees are going back to prison within two years of release. A much needed guidebook for ex-inmates to...  Read More >>

"With 44% of ex-inmates back in prison within two years, ""Permission To Fly"" is a much needed guidebook. Ex-inmates...  Read More >>

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, this text offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology,...  Read More >>

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This brief explores the current theories, trends, risk factors, and intervention efforts related to juvenile crime....  Read More >>

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social...  Read More >>

This book offers the first in-depth analysis of peer mentoring in criminal justice. Drawing upon a rigorous ethnographic...  Read More >>

This book examines the impact and implications of the relationship between risk and criminal justice in advanced...  Read More >>

""Juvenile Justice is an introductory textbook for a predominantly one-semester course of the same name within criminal...  Read More >>

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This book explains how practitioners can benefit from the use of empirically tested and validated profiles in their...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to the theory, research and practice of violence risk management The Wiley Handbook of What...  Read More >>

There are many varieties of procedures to assess criminal and sex offenders that have emerged throughout the 19th...  Read More >>

A comprehensive guide to the theory, research and practice of violence risk management The Wiley Handbook of What...  Read More >>

Applied Theatre: Women and the Criminal Justice System offers unprecedented access to international theatre and...  Read More >>

The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings...  Read More >>

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth...  Read More >>

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long...  Read More >>

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