Punishment, Places and Perpetrators

by Bruinsma; Gerben

• ISBN13: 9781843920601
• ISBN10: 1843920603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-27
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Introduction
Challenges for criminological and criminal justice research	p. 3
Criminology and criminal justice in Europe	p. 21
Punishment and Criminal Justice
Risk assessment and criminal law: closing the gap between criminal law and criminology	p. 41
Actuarial justice and the modern state	p. 62
Punishment, retribution and communication	p. 78
Of crimes and punishment	p. 97
The weakest link: human rights and the criminal offender in modern democratic government	p. 106
European trends and transatlantic inspiration: youth offending and juvenile justice	p. 113
Reflections on the relationship between transnational policing and organized crime	p. 138
Location and Mobility
The emergence of crime places in crime prevention	p. 155
The journey to crime	p. 169
Decision models underlying the journey to crime	p. 182
Transnational organized crime: new directions for empirical research and public policy	p. 198
Perpetrators and Criminal Careers
Analysis of criminal careers	p. 215
The development of aggression: causes and trajectories	p. 232
A semi-parametric, group-based approach for analysing trajectories of development: a non-technical overview	p. 247
Peers, crime and the life course	p. 260
The changing role of delinquent peers in childhood and adolescence: issues, findings and puzzles	p. 279
Index	p. 298
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