Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

by Smith; Cindy J.

• ISBN13: 9780415779098
• ISBN10: 041577909X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This handbook showcases the latest thinking and findings from a group of senior and promising young scholars around the world who came together in an effort to broaden our perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders and nationalities. It introduces topics within international crime (e.g., war crimes), transnational crime (e.g., human trafficking), and national criminal justice systems (e.g., descriptions of 20 countries).

Author Biography

Cindy J. Smith is a retired faculty member of the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the former Chief of the International Center at the National Institute of Justice (2006-8), and a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Turkey (2005-6). She was the Director of the Master's in Criminal Justice program (2001-5), and Chair of the International Division of the American Society of Criminology (2005-9). Her research interests include terrorism, human trafficking, corrections, sex offenders, and comparative methodology. Sheldon X. Zhang is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. His research interests include criminal enterprise, transnational organized crime, community corrections, and program evaluation. He has authored three books and his articles have appeared in Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, and Crime and Delinquency. Rosemary Barberet is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where she directs the Master's program in International Crime and Justice. Her publications have dealt with victimology, crime measurement, and comparative methodology. She is the recipient of the 2006 Herbert Bloch Award of the American Society of Criminology.

Table of Contents

List of plates	p. xiii
List of figures	p. xv
List of tables	p. xvii
List of boxes	p. xix
Notes on contributors	p. xxi
Foreword	p. xxix
Acknowledgments	p. xxxi
Progress of international criminology	p. 1
Methods and theories	p. 9
Introduction to international research challenges	p. 11
Doing criminology in the "semi-periphery" and the "periphery": in search of a post-colonial criminology	p. 13
International criminology: qualitative research on polluted actors	p. 25
Quantitative criminology: crime and justice statistics across nations	p. 38
The Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group: a decade of progress	p. 53
A question of good governance? Developments in crime prevention internationally	p. 64
Transferring Western theory: a comparative and culture-sensitive perspective of crime research in China	p. 77
The legacy of Interpol crime data to cross-national criminology	p. 87
Research methods overview: the missing pieces of rigorous research	p. 98
Special topics	p. 107
Introduction to special topics in international criminology	p. 109
The impact of United Nations crime conventions on international cooperation	p. 112
The United Nations and criminology	p. 125
International criminal courts	p. 134
International identity crime	p. 142
Cybercrime and online safety in cyberspace	p. 153
Immigration and criminology	p. 166
Trafficking in persons	p. 178
Trafficking in antiquities	p. 192
Trafficking of "conflict diamonds"	p. 200
Conceptualizing and studying organized crime in a global context: possible? indispensable? superfluous?	p. 211
Hong Kong triads	p. 226
Ants moving houses - cross-border drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle	p. 237
The production of ecstasy in the Netherlands	p. 248
Drug violence in Colombia	p. 260
The basics of terrorism and counterterrorism	p. 274
The ambivalent role of Italian prosecutors and their resistance to 'moral panics' about crime	p. 286
Criminology and criminal justice in context	p. 297
Introduction to country assessments	p. 299
Australia: the state of criminology	p. 302
Brazil: the state of criminology	p. 313
Canada: the state of criminology	p. 324
Cambodia: a criminal justice system in transition	p. 338
Chile: a criminological approach	p. 349
Colombia: crime trends, criminal justice, and criminology in a society in turmoil	p. 360
Estonia: crime, criminal justice, and criminology in a changing socio-economic context	p. 376
Ghana: the state of criminology in a changing society	p. 390
Great Britain: criminology and criminal justice	p. 400
Hong Kong: the state of criminology	p. 411
India: the state of criminology in a developing nation	p. 419
Italy: an overview of criminology	p. 429
South Korea: current trends and issues in crime and criminal justice	p. 440
Mexico: the state of criminology and public safety	p. 452
Nigeria: social structure, criminal justice and criminology	p. 463
The Netherlands: the state of criminology	p. 475
People's Republic of China: the state of criminology	p. 486
Russia: an overview of crime and criminology	p. 497
Sierra Leone: the quest for justice and social cohesion	p. 509
Turkey: the state of criminology	p. 520
Index	p. 531
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