Books and eBooks

Introduces key sociological theories. Case studies demonstrate how these theories can manifest within and influence the criminal justice system and social policy. Includes chapters covering feminist criminology, critical masculinities, cultural criminology, green criminology, and postcolonial theory.

Australian insights into criminology and criminal justice, situated in a global context.

Evidence-based interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance; secondary prevention measures directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance; and tertiary prevention measures to deal with persons who have already committed crimes.

An introduction to crime prevention in Australia. This book argues for a combination of social and situational/environmental crime prevention strategies as more effective alternatives to policing, criminal justice and 'law and order' approaches.

Crime is an important social issue and how policymakers deal with crime (via crime policy) can have enormous social and financial implications. This book discusses criminal behavior and explores the factors that contribute to crime as well as the social reactions to crime. By making the connection between theory, research, and policy, the authors demonstrate the relevancy of criminological theory in the public attempt to control crime while providing justice.

Shows how criminology relates to criminal justice policy. An in-depth analysis of all areas of criminological theory and crime typologies.

Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "deviants" who are born evil and innately given to sadism or a callous lack of empathy. In contrast, this book considers the violence of these "deviants" in terms of larger questions about human violence.

This Brief provides an overview and history of the definition of serial homicide, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, criminology and forensics. It reviews research to provide a standard definition of serial homicide (as opposed to multiple or mass homicide), and provide insights on profiles of victims and offenders for police practitioners. It also includes a discussion of the media approach to covering serial homicide. The Brief is divided into four major sections covering: definitions and overview of serial homicide, profiling perpetrators according to different typologies, profiling victims, applied case studies, and recommendations for investigation and prevention.