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This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrato...

This title unites a series of leading commentators on topical issues of bank fraud on a national, regional and international level. It includes an examination of the basic concepts of bank fraud; Engl...

The Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime represents a major step forward in the internationally co-operative fight against transnational organized crime. This book offers a comprehensive, ...

For courses in Introduction to Organized Crime. Dispelling current myths regarding organized crime, Lyman and Potterss fourth edition reveals a truer picture of organized crime and criminal activity t...

In his social investigative writings on "the serious crime community" which describes the loose merger of corporate interests, organized crime and political crime, Professor Alan A. Block of Penn Stat...

Written by a former NYPD cyber cop, this is the only book available that discusses the hard questions cyber crime investigators are asking. The book begins with the chapter “What is Cyber Crime? Thi...

Misha Glenny made his reputation as a BBC reporter during the break-up of the Soviet empire and in the Balkan wars. Those experiences introduced him to the murky, bloody, terrifyingly successful opera...

"Crime Scene Photography" is a book wrought from years of experience. The material has been carefully selected for ease of use and effectiveness in training, and field tested by the author in his role...

Crime and Criminology analyzes the causes of crime, while exploring the major theories and perspectives that attempt to explain criminal behaviour in society. The fourth edition of this popular book p...

Corporate Crime involves issues of ever increasing significance, such as the environment, occupational health and safety, consumerism, and globalization. In these areas and many others, inadequately r...

This volume brings together key articles in the burgeoning field of regulation. The collection is interdisciplinary, in keeping with study of regulation itself, yet the book arranges and explores thes...

This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprising a carefully distilled selection of the most i...

"Investigating Digital Crime" is an accessible introduction to the relationship between the parallel growth of new digital technologies and their criminal exploitation. The book examines the reaction ...

This lively and accessible text provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. It explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of contemporary crimina...

Basia Spalek has compiled an excellent reader about a much researched and highly sensitive subject. Crucially, she contextualises ethnicity and crime within broadly defined social and intellectual con...

This Reader combines classic material with more recent readings on the issues of gender and criminology and criminal justice. The Reader is divided in to sections which address female offenders (why i...

Why are we so concerned about drugs and crime? Is the relationship between drug–taking and criminal behaviour as straightforward as it is sometimes made to appear? What should be done about the proble...

Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in ...

Three years ago, Lyla fled from her ex, Gavin Pyre. She created a new identity and began a relationship with a man who knows nothing about her past. The normal life she built for herself is shattered ...

Care for a Little Murder with that Sweet Roll? Jules Hooker is doing her best to adjust to the new normal of a world without electricity, electronics, cars or the chance to return home. Stranded in ...

The perceived threat of 'transnational organised crime' to Western societies has been of huge interest to politicians, policy-makers and social scientists over the last decade. This book considers the...

From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of confli...

Triton has become the Crime Lord of London! His army of child thieves arerobbing the capital. Even the best police detectives are powerless - theyneed help. YOU are sent back in time to the foggy stre...

This new collection will pick up where Dorothy L. Sayers' "The Omnibus of Crime" (1929) left off - "in the heart of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction" - bringing together monumental, entertaining wo...

ReviewersĹź comments on the first editionĹźThis is an excellent introductory textbook on youth and crime. It is excellent not only in its analysis of criminological questions about youthful offending,...

For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs. Although it has been applied to an ...

Throughout history, there have have been ciminals notorious for their crimes and judges famous for upholding the law. This fantastic collection of specially commissioned photographs shows how these cr...

When the challenge is too great for one hero alone, the Justice League of America steps in. The JLA features the world's most famous super heroes, including Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Stunnin...

`Youth Crime and Justice presents a detailed and comprehensive critical analysis of evidence from leading national and international scholars. As such it provides a powerful antidote to the excesses o...

Race and Crime is a core text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students taking courses in race, criminal justice, ethnic studies and sociology. It may also be adopted into courses such as r...