Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

Herausgeber: Bruinsma, Gerben; De Keijser, Jan; Elffers, Henk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415627979
• ISBN-10: 0415627974
• Artikelnr.: 35203148

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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