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The Gender of Crime
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 23.99The Gender of Crime introduces students to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. This dynamic and provocative book shows that gender is central to the definition and prosecution of crimes, that it shapes understandings of victimization, and that it structures the criminal justice system and the experiences of its workers.... more...
Analyzing Criminal Minds
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 55.00Engaging a dangerous psychopath up close and personal will, at first, demonstrate his gifts of deception. Only extending the conversation will reveal his true nature, as one starts to see red flagsÑimpatience, rolling eyes, curt answers. Even the least perceptive can sense that something is not quite right, but how does law enforcement know for sure? more...
Psychological Criminology
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 39.95Psychological criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality, exploring theories focusing on factors present at birth (human nature, heredity); theories... more...
Professionalizing Offender Profiling
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 49.95Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender profiling is still influenced by misleading media... more...
Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 25.95In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the institutional difficulties which emerge in the care of these patients are presented alongside chapters on clinical work, with adults and adolescents, including... more...
Judas Kisses
Hardie Grant Books 2008; US$ 11.50In April 1994 in a remote NSW town, Donna Carson was bashed, doused in petrol and set alight by her de facto partner. She suffered horrific burns to 65%of her body and spent the next six months in hospital lapsing in and out of consciousness.Throughout, what kept her alive was the thought of her two young sons, Coe and Bodean.While she recuperated,... more...
Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters
University Press of America 2011; US$ 41.99Examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. The voice of the ghetto was silenced by a black leadership preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda, leading to confusion, frustration, and the emergence of... more...
Life within Hidden Worlds
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 27.95Psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a practice is the antithesis of a prison regime. Prisons are hard; psychotherapy is porous, permeable. Echoed throughout this book is the obvious paradox that is being worked when practicing psychotherapy in prison. The two are world's apart, yet each can creatively serve the other. more...
The Pale Criminal
Karnac Books 2002; US$ 31.95It is Costello's aim to bring a 'unifying vision and theoretical integration' to the array of perspectives and theories in the field of criminality, and examines the contributions of both orthodox and evolutionary psychiatry, and explores the role of family experience in shaping the 'pale criminal'. more...









