Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

Herausgeber: Smith, Cindy J; Barberet, Rosemary; Zhang, Sheldon X

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook showcases the latest thinking and findings from a group of senior and promising young scholars around the world who have come together in an effort to broaden our perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders and nationalities. It is divided into three parts, in which three distinct but overlapping types of crime are presented and discussed: international crime, transnational crime, and national crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1202g
• ISBN-13: 9780415779098
• ISBN-10: 041577909X
• Artikelnr.: 31387398

Autorenporträt

Cindy J. Smith is a retired faculty member of the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the former Chief of the International Center at the National Institute of Justice (2006-8), and a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Turkey (2005-6). She was the Director of the Master's in Criminal Justice program (2001-5), and Chair of the International Division of the American Society of Criminology (2005-9). Her research interests include terrorism, human trafficking, corrections, sex offenders, and comparative methodology. Sheldon X. Zhang is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. His research interests include criminal enterprise, transnational organized crime, community corrections, and program evaluation. He has authored three books and his articles have appeared in Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, and Crime and Delinquency. Rosemary Barberet is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where she directs the Master's program in International Crime and Justice. Her publications have dealt with victimology, crime measurement, and comparative methodology. She is the recipient of the 2006 Herbert Bloch Award of the American Society of Criminology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Progress of International Criminology Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang
and Rosemary Barberet Part 1: Methods and Theories 2. Introduction to
International Research Challenges Cindy J. Smith 3. Doing Criminology in
the 'Semi-periphery' and the 'Periphery': In Search of a Post-Colonial
Criminology Juanjo Medina 4. International Criminology: Qualitative
Research on Polluted Actors Martha Huggins 5. Quantitative Criminology:
Crime and Justice Statistics Across Nations Jan van Dijk 6. The Campbell
Collaboration Crime and Justice Group: A Decade of Progress David P.
Farrington, David L. Weisburd and Charlotte E. Gill 7. A Question of Good
Governance? Developments in Crime Prevention Internationally Jacqui Karn
8. Transferring Wester Theory: A Comparative and Culture-Sensitive
Perspective of Crime Research in China Lening Zhang 9. The Legacy of
Interpol Crime Data to Cross-National Criminology Rosemary Barberet 10.
Research Methods Overview: The Missing Pieces of Rigorous Research Cindy J.
Smith Part 2: Special Topics 11. Introduction to Special Topics in
International Criminology Sheldon X. Zhang 12. The Impact of United Nations
Crime Conventions on International Co-Operation Matti Joutsen 13. The
United Nations and Criminology Slawomir M. Redo 14. International Criminal
Courts Harry M. Rhea 15. International Identity Crime Russell G. Smith 16.
Cybercrime and On-Line Safety in Cyberspace Roderic Broadhurst and
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo 17. Immigration and Criminology William F. McDonald
18. Trafficking in Persons Kristina Kangaspunta 19. Trafficking in
Antiquities Blythe Bowman Proulx 20. Trafficking of 'Conflict Diamonds'
Dina Siegel 21. Conceptualizing and Studying Organized Crime in a Global
Context: Possible? Indispensible? Superfluous? Jana Arsovska 22. Hong Kong
Triads Yiu Kong Chu 23. Ants Moving Houses: Cross-Border Drug Trafficking
in the Golden Triangle Sheldon X. Zhang and Ko-lin Chin 24. The Production
of Ecstasy in the Netherlands Melvin R.J. Soudijn and M.F.J. Vijlbrief 25.
Drug Violence in Colombia Gipsy Escobar 26. The Basics of Terrorism and
Counterterrorism Mustafa Cosar Unal 27. The Ambivalent Role of Italian
Prosecutors and their Resistance to 'Moral Panics' about Crime Riccardo
Montana and David Nelken Part 3: Criminology and Criminal Justice in
Context 28. Introduction to Country Assessments Rosemary Barberet 29.
Australia: The State of Criminology Judy Putt and Jade Lindley 30. Brazil:
The State of Criminology Corinne Davis Rodrigues 31. Canada: The State of
Criminology André Solecki, Nicole Crutcher and Stephen Mihorean 32.
Cambodia: A Criminal Justice System in Transition Roderic Broadhurst and
Chenda Keo 33. Chile: A Criminological Approach Joanna Heskia Tornquist
34. Columbia: Crime Trends, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in a Society
in Turmoil Gipsy Escobar 35. Estonia: Crime, Criminal Justice and
Criminology in a Changing Socio-Economic Context Anna Markina 36. Ghana:
The State of Criminology in a Changing Society Obi N. I . Ebbe 37. Great
Britain: Criminology and Criminal Justice Anne Brunton 38. Hong Kong: The
State of Criminology Jianhua Xu 39. India: The State of Criminology in a
Developing Nation Prasanna Poornachandra 40. Italy: An Overview of
Criminology Rosemary Serra 41. South Korea: Current Trends and Issues in
Crime and Criminal Justice Joon Oh Jang and Kyung-shick Choi 42. Mexico:
The State of Criminology and Public Safety Mario Arroyo Juarez and
Vernoica Martinez Solares 43. Nigeria: The State of Crime, Criminal
Justice, and Criminology in a Failing State Innocent Chukwuma 44. The
Netherlands: The State of Criminology Melvin R.J. Soudijn 45. People's
Republic of China: The State of Criminology Liu Xiu and Jiang Tingyao 46.
Russia: An Overview of Crime and Criminology Yakov Gilinskiy 47. Sierra
Leone: The Quest of Justice and Social Cohesion Christopher E. S. Warburton
48. Turkey: The State of Criminology Ali Ozdogan