The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that
contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns
and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case
drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and
criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular
and official conceptions of crime. This book is one of the few
criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of
specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only
'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and
vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often
an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract
contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes
committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal
groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for
example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse,
cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug
trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism.
Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the
criminological literature. The Handbook on Crime will be a unique
text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics,
practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved
in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.
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