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Codes of the Underworld
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 22.95How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic problems of whom to trust, how to make themselves trusted, and... more...
Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 189.00This unique, two-volume study examines female crime and the women who commit it. more...
Offending Women
University of California Press 2010; US$ 60.00Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who are serving terms in alternative, community-based prisons-a type of facility that is becoming increasingly widespread. Incorporating vivid, sometimes shocking... more...
The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95The main feature of this work is that it explores criminal behaviour from all aspects of Tinbergen's Four Questions. Rather than focusing on a single theoretical point of view, this book examines the neurobiology of crime from a biosocial perspective. It suggests that it is necessary to understand some genetics and neuroscience in order to appreciate... more...
Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons
NYU Press 1996; US$ 70.00An ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violent, illegal acts. A prison warden loses his job because he is so successful in rehabilitating criminals. These are but a few of the intriguing stories Martha Grace Duncan examines in her bold, interdisciplinary book Romantic Outlaws,... more...
Handbook of Research Methods in Migration
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00Covering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods to practical applications of different techniques and approaches in migration research. The chapters of this interdisciplinary Handbook maintain an introductory level of discussion on migration... more...
Biology and Violence
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 42.00An examination of criminal behaviour from birth to adulthood in order to determine the biological and sociological influences on violence. more...
The Causes of Crime
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 35.00The Causes of Crime: New Biological Approaches offers the first comprehensive overview of the biological factors involved in criminality. more...
In Conflict and Custody
SAGE India 2012; US$ 36.00Myriads of unhappy women feel overwhelmed by formal legal processes and a criminal justice system they believe to be ridden with gender and other biases. Personal crises, whether in their captive lives or in correctional institutions, leave women facing dead ends and crossroads that cause lasting visible and invisible damage to body and mind if not... more...
The Alarming Relation Between Early School Leaving and Crime
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95Smale and Gounko study twelve men who dropped out of school early, and wound up in juvenile delinquency. While many studies have suggested a link between early school leaving and delinquency nobody has done a study from the perspective of the criminals using dissimilar populations. The directional causality between criminal behavior and dropping out... more...









