Imagining the Victim of Crime (Häftad)
avSandra Walklate
ISBN: 9780335217274 - UTGIVEN: 200610'...the clarity in which the wide range of relevant issues are presented throughout the book makes this must-reading for new entrants to this field and for students' - "International Review of Victimology". This book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broa[...]
Beyond the Risk Society (Häftad)
avGus Mythen, Sandra Walklate
ISBN: 9780335217380 - UTGIVEN: 200608In contemporary culture risk is ubiquitous, filtering through a range of activities, practices and experiences. In line with rising public concerns about the management of current threats - such as crime, terrorism and global warming - interest in risk has gathered momentum in the social sciences, g[...]
Understanding Criminology (Pocket)
avSandra Walklate
ISBN: 9780335221233 - UTGIVEN: 2007-06-01Examines the development of criminological theory, with an analysis of the relationship between criminological theorizing, criminal justice, social justice, and politics. This book provides a discussion of classical criminology and cultural criminology. It also considers the policies concerned with [...]
Criminology (Pocket)
avSandra Walklate
ISBN: 9780415335546 - UTGIVEN: 2005-09-08Providing an international and comparative introduction to the discipline, this book is a guide to the theoretical and practical approaches to the phenomena of crime. Topics covered include: popular myths and the fear of crime; crime in the workplace; victims, offenders and questions of justice; and[...]
Criminology: The Basics (Häftad)
avSandra Walklate
ISBN: 9780415575546 - UTGIVEN: 201105As crime continues to be a high profile issue troubling politicians, the public and the media alike, the study of criminology has boomed. Providing an international and comparative introduction to the discipline, Criminology: The Basics is an accessible guide to the theoretical and practical approac[...]
Murder (Pocket)
avShani D'Cruze, Sandra Walklate, Samantha Pegg
ISBN: 9781843921691 - UTGIVEN: 2006-07This book seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing a highly accessible account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. It uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murde[...]
