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Why have many victim-centred policy initiatives met with so little
success? How have those initiatives unfolded differently in
different global jurisdictions over different periods of time? This
book aims to address these questions. Building on a major research
project exploring victims' access to justice over time and place,
Victims' Access to Justice considers the potentialities for
victims' participation in criminal justice systems and in victim
programmes both in historical and comparative context. It considers
a range of topics: ways of identifying and accommodating victims'
needs and senses of justice; the impacts for criminal justice
systems of seeking to accommodate these; and the ways in which
adversarial criminal justice systems, in particular, may enable or
inhibit victim participation. This is essential reading for all
those engaged in understanding and working with victims of crime.
Over the past 25 years, developing coordinated responses to
intimate partner violence and sexual violence has improved both
perpetrator accountability, and victim safety and
self-determination. However, preventing intimate partner violence
and sexual violence from occurring is beyond the ability of any one
type of organization. Preventing this violence requires a network
of individuals, groups and organizations who coordinate and assess
their efforts on an ongoing basis. This volume provides theoretical
and practical guidance for the development of state and local
prevention systems that hold the potential to eliminate persistent
social problems. The development of prevention systems was informed
by the data-driven public health model, systems theory and the
ecological systems perspective. Strengthening Systems to Prevent
Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence offers guidance on
how to gain participation of the right partners in developing a
prevention system, and how to focus the work of that system on the
critical areas of planning, implementation and capacity building.
The guidance, resources and experience shared in this important
collection will be invaluable to all those working towards the
prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. This
book is based on a special issue of the Journal of Family Social
Work.
Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological
Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of
criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing
contemporary issues such as the globalisation of crime, crimes
against the environment, terrorism and cybercrime. Authored by an
internationally renowned and experienced group of authors in the
Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, this is a truly
international criminology text that delves into areas that other
texts may only reference. It includes substantive chapters on the
following topics: * Histories of crime; * Theoretical approaches to
crime and the issue of social change; * Victims and victimisation;
* Crime, emotion and social psychology; * Drugs, alcohol, health
and crime; * Criminal justice and the sociology of punishment; *
Green criminology; * Crime and the media; * Terrorism, state crime
and human rights. The new edition fuses global perspectives in
criminology from the contexts of post-Brexit Britain and America in
the age of Trump, and from the Global South. It contains new
chapters on cybercrime; crimes of the powerful; organised crime;
life-course approaches to understanding delinquency and desistance;
and futures of crime, control and criminology. Each chapter
includes a series of critical thinking questions, suggestions for
further study and a list of useful websites and resources. The book
also contains a glossary of the criminological terms and concepts
used in the book. It is the perfect text for students looking for a
broad, critical and international introduction to criminology, and
it is essential reading for those looking to expand their
'criminological imagination'.
This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent:
British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis
of the growing body of work on the history of British and European
juvenile delinquency. It is unique in that it analyzes definitions
of and responses to, disorderly youth across time (from the
mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries) and across space
(covering developments across Western Europe). This comparative
approach allows it to show how certain themes dominated European
discourses of delinquency across this period, not least panics
about urban culture, poor parenting, dangerous pleasures, family
breakdown, national fitness and future social stability. It also
shows how these various threats were countered by recurring
strategies, most notably by repeated attempts to deter delinquency,
to divide responsibility between the state, civil society and the
family, and to find a "proper" balance between moral reform and
physical punishment, between care and control.
This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent:
British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis
of the growing body of work on the history of British and European
juvenile delinquency. It is unique in that it analyzes definitions
of and responses to, disorderly youth across time (from the
mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries) and across space
(covering developments across Western Europe). This comparative
approach allows it to show how certain themes dominated European
discourses of delinquency across this period, not least panics
about urban culture, poor parenting, dangerous pleasures, family
breakdown, national fitness and future social stability. It also
shows how these various threats were countered by recurring
strategies, most notably by repeated attempts to deter delinquency,
to divide responsibility between the state, civil society and the
family, and to find a "proper" balance between moral reform and
physical punishment, between care and control.
Over the past 25 years, developing coordinated responses to
intimate partner violence and sexual violence has improved both
perpetrator accountability, and victim safety and
self-determination. However, preventing intimate partner violence
and sexual violence from occurring is beyond the ability of any one
type of organization. Preventing this violence requires a network
of individuals, groups and organizations who coordinate and assess
their efforts on an ongoing basis. This volume provides theoretical
and practical guidance for the development of state and local
prevention systems that hold the potential to eliminate persistent
social problems. The development of prevention systems was informed
by the data-driven public health model, systems theory and the
ecological systems perspective. Strengthening Systems to Prevent
Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence offers guidance on
how to gain participation of the right partners in developing a
prevention system, and how to focus the work of that system on the
critical areas of planning, implementation and capacity building.
The guidance, resources and experience shared in this important
collection will be invaluable to all those working towards the
prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. This
book is based on a special issue of the Journal of Family Social
Work.
Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological
Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of
criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to pressing
contemporary issues such as the globalisation of crime, crimes
against the environment, terrorism and cybercrime. Authored by an
internationally renowned and experienced group of authors in the
Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, this is a truly
international criminology text that delves into areas that other
texts may only reference. It includes substantive chapters on the
following topics: * Histories of crime; * Theoretical approaches to
crime and the issue of social change; * Victims and victimisation;
* Crime, emotion and social psychology; * Drugs, alcohol, health
and crime; * Criminal justice and the sociology of punishment; *
Green criminology; * Crime and the media; * Terrorism, state crime
and human rights. The new edition fuses global perspectives in
criminology from the contexts of post-Brexit Britain and America in
the age of Trump, and from the Global South. It contains new
chapters on cybercrime; crimes of the powerful; organised crime;
life-course approaches to understanding delinquency and desistance;
and futures of crime, control and criminology. Each chapter
includes a series of critical thinking questions, suggestions for
further study and a list of useful websites and resources. The book
also contains a glossary of the criminological terms and concepts
used in the book. It is the perfect text for students looking for a
broad, critical and international introduction to criminology, and
it is essential reading for those looking to expand their
'criminological imagination'.
Crime in Modern Britain is a stimulating and accessible introduction to Criminology, providing an overview of the subject and critical engagement with the literature from the perspective of both Sociology and History, as well as from Criminology itself. The focus is on modern Britain since the late nineteenth century and the scope is wide-ranging, covering all aspects of crime from those committed on the street and within the home, to offences and abuse conducted on an international scale.
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