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What Works in Corrections
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00This assesses the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, specialized treatment for different types of offenders, management and treatment of drug-involved offenders and punishment, control and surveillance interventions to provide an intensive review of correctional interventions and programs. Through extensive research, MacKenzie illustrates which... more...
Violent Crime
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. This series of essays explores the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime in the United States and several other contemporary societies. more...
Situational Prison Control
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00This book examines the control of prison disorder through the application of situational crime prevention principles. It presents a new model of situational prevention with applications beyond institutions to community settings, and examines problem behaviours, providing comprehensive reviews of prison control literature not depending upon a situational... more...
Delinquent-Prone Communities
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. This book challenges the conventional view that disadvantage causes crime because it motivates people to offend, and argues instead that disadvantage causes crime because it disrupts the parenting process. more...
Delinquent Networks
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00This book presents a study of co-offending relations among youths under 21 suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991-1995. Jerzy Sarnecki employs the method of network analysis of crime. more...
The Criminal Career
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 72.00Britta Kyvsgaard examines the nature and aspects of the 'criminal career' through her longitudinal analysis of 45,000 Danish offenders. The data, unparalleled in size and quality, allows powerful analyses of criminal behavior, even among relatively small demographic subgroups. Her findings suggest rehabilitation as an alternative worthy of further... more...
Marking Time in the Golden State
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 25.00In this book, prisoners are treated as important sources of knowledge about prisons and imprisonment during the last three decades. The authors examine both how women prisoners' lives changed over time and how they were affected by the new generation of prisons. more...
Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 28.00This book investigates the current state of industrial espionage, showing the far-reaching effects of advances in computing and wireless communications and provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime in the burgeoning information society. more...
Choosing White-Collar Crime
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 29.00This distinguishes ordinary and upperworld white-collar crime and presents reasons for believing both have increased substantially in recent decades. The book concludes with reasons for believing that problems of white-collar crime will continue unchecked increasingly in the global economy and calls for strengthened citizen movements to rein in the... more...
Third Party Policing
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 41.00The first comprehensive exploration of a major change in crime control which has seen responsibility no longer primarily with state agencies but shared between a wide range of organizations and individuals. Exactly how third party policing works, practical issues and ethical implications are all integrated with original research and theory. more...









