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Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New Horizons in Criminology series is the first to foreground this growing area. The book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations with others: values, morality, aesthetics, order, rules and respect. Building on the author's theoretical and empirical research, the book considers the boundaries of criminology and the scope for greater exchange between criminology and philosophy. The book is illustrated using examples from a range of countries, and provides a platform for engaging with important topical issues using philosophical and theoretical insights

This illuminating study explores crimes against, and involving, wildlife and the resultant social harms. The authors go well beyond basic conceptions of animal-related crime, such as illicit trade, for a deeper exploration of wildlife criminology, using a novel approach that combines philosophical, legal and criminological perspectives. They shed light on both legal and illegal harms, including blood sports, wildlife as food and abuse in zoos, and consider the potential connections with inter-human crimes. This is a unique treatment of wildlife as victims of crime and a consideration of their rights as sentient beings that sets new horizons for the concept of wildlife criminology

Scientific criminology -- What is science? -- Assessing the properties of scientific criminology -- Progress within scientific fields -- Scientific progress in criminology -- Mechanistic science -- Mechanistic explanations -- Mechanism schemas -- Biosocial criminology -- Analytical criminology -- Mechanistic translations of criminological theories -- Social learning theory -- Social control theory -- General strain theory -- Mechanistic criminology -- Nondeclarative memory -- Declarative memory -- Theory of mind -- Conclusion -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.

A Case for a Gestalt Philosophy as the Basis of a Southern Green CriminologyChapter 4 Green Activist Criminology; Research for Its Own Sake and Research for the Sake of Others; Green Criminology and Activism; Specious Abysses; Southern Green Intellectuals; Chapter 5 Green and Southern Criminologies Before Green and Southern Criminologies Existed; Southern Criminological Amnesia; Green Criminological Blindness; Southern Green Criminological Epistemicide; Chapter 6 A Stereoscope of Ecological Discrimination; The White Man's Burden

part, PART I Criminology's founders and their discontents -- chapter INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS THEORY AND WHY ARE THERE DEBATES? -- chapter 1 DEBATING AMONG CRIMINOLOGY'S FOUNDERS -- chapter 2 DOES CRIME ORIGINATE FROM THE PERSON OR THE ENVIRONMENT? SOCIOLOGICAL VS. PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- part, PART II Great debates in the mid-to-late 20th century -- chapter 3 IS CRIME NATURAL OR DO WE LEARN IT? CONTROL AND CULTURAL DEVIANCE THEORIES -- chapter 4 DO WE NEED TO FOLLOW PEOPLE OVER TIME? CRIMINAL CAREERS VS. CRIMINAL PROPENSITY THEORIES -- chapter 5 WHO IS RIGHT? THEORY TESTING AND CONSTRUCTION IN CRIMINOLOGY -- chapter 6 BEYOND THE "SEMINAL TRIO": CRITICAL VS. TRADITIONAL AND CONSERVATIVE CRIMINOLOGY -- chapter 7 IS CRIMINOLOGY/CRIMINAL JUSTICE A TRUE DISCIPLINE? CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CRIMINOLOGY, AND THEIR EXISTENCE -- part, PART III Great debates in criminology methods and policy -- chapter 8 WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT CRIME? DEBATES AROUND POLICY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- chapter 9 ARE WE STILL DEBATING? CONTEMPORARY AND EMERGING DEBATES.

Critical criminological theories and perspectives are typically major components of Criminology degree courses. An Introduction to Critical Criminology is the first accessible text on these topics for students of criminology, sociology and social policy. Written by an experienced lecturer who specialises in the topic, it offers an in-depth but accessible introduction to foundational and contemporary theories and perspectives in critical criminology. In doing so, it introduces students to theories and perspectives that challenge mainstream criminological theories about the causes of crime, and the operation of the criminal justice system. With the inclusion of boxed examples, key points and sample essay questions An Introduction to Critical Criminology is ideal for students of Criminology because it explores in detail a vast array of critical criminological theories and perspectives

Understand crime, understand the city -- Place and locality: neighbourhoods and crime -- Urban economies -- Governance and social control in the urban arena -- Policing, the police and social order in the city -- Urban violence -- Housing systems, housing tenure and the dis/orderly city -- The political economy of urban safety.

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice. Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and will be of wide interest

Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change.

A future of criminology and a criminologist for the ages /Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh --Some future trajectories for life course criminology /D. Wayne Osgood --Does the study of the age-crime curve have a future? /Rolf Loeber --Developmental origins of aggression : from social learning to epigenetics /Richard E. Tremblay --Biology of crime : past, present, and future perspectives /Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy --Self-control, then and now /Terrie E. Moffitt --Criminological theory : past achievements and future challenges /Terence P. Thornberry --Individuals' situational criminal actions : current knowledge and tomorrow's prospects /Per-Olof H. Wikström --Lack of empathy and offending : implications for tomorrow's research and practice /Darrick Jolliffe and Joseph Murray --Person-in-context : insights and issues in research on neighborhoods and crime /Gregory M. Zimmerman and Steven F. Messner --Risk and protective factors in the assessment of school bullies and victims /Maria M. Ttofi and Peter K. Smith --Adult onset offending : perspectives for future research /Georgia Zara --The next generation of longitudinal studies /Magda Stouthamer-Loeber --Research on criminal careers, part 1 : contributions, opportunities, and needs /Alfred Blumstein --Research on criminal careers, part 2 : looking back to predict ahead /Alex R. Piquero --The harvesting of administrative records : new problems, great potential /Howard N. Snyder --Twenty-five years of developmental criminology : what we know, what we need to know /Marc Le Blanc --Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge on desistance from crime /Lila Kazemian --Does psychopathology appear fully only in adulthood? /Raymond R. Corrado --Preventing delinquency by putting families first /Brandon C. Welsh --The future of preventive public health : implications of brain violence research /Frederick P. Rivara --"Own the place, own the crime" prevention : how evidence about place-based crime shifts the burden of prevention /John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette --Community approaches to preventing crime and violence : the challenge of building prevention capacity /Ross Homel and Tara Renae McGee --Taking effective crime prevention to scale : from school-based programs to community-wide prevention systems /J. David Hawkins [and others] --The human experiment in treatment : a means to the end of offender recidivism /Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong --Towards a third phase of "what works" in offender rehabilitation /Friedrich Lösel --Raising the bar : transforming knowledge to practice for children in conflict with the law /Leena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl --Intervening with violence : priorities for reform from a public health perspective /Jonathan P. Shepherd --How to reduce the global homicide rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060 /Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette --The problem with macro-criminology /James Q. Wilson --Staking out the next generation of studies of the criminology of place : collecting prospective longitudinal data at crime hot spots /David Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Justin Ready --The futures of experimental criminology /Lawrence W. Sherman --Stopping crime requires successful implementation of what works /Irvin Waller --The future of sentencing and its control /Michael Tonry.

La criminologie a aujourd'hui une actualité traversée par de nombreuses controverses, que ce soit sur son institutionnalisation, son développement dans le cadre d'un marché de la sécurité florissant, ou les emprunts qui y ont été faits lors de lois pénales assez récentes40. La criminologie a été abordée sous une forme picaresque et colorée or, il y a un vrai phénomène criminologie à analyser, tant cette "science sociale" relève des questions qui sont de réels problèmes de société. En s'attachant à la genèse de ce savoir, nous voudrions ici précisément montrer la dimension sociologique de ces écrits, proches de l'anthropologie, portés plutôt par des médecins, quelques juristes intéressés par le social et par l'impact de leurs travaux sur les possibles transformations du monde. Palavras-chave: Ciência – Criminologia – Sociologia - França – Europa Século XIX – Política – Saberes de Governo. ; A criminologia hoje é atravessada por muita controvérsia, seja em razão de sua institucionalização, em razão de seu desenvolvimento como parte de um próspero mercado de segurança ou de empréstimos que foram feitos em leis criminais bastante recentes. A criminologia foi abordada de forma picaresca e colorida ou como forma de abordar um fenômeno criminológico real a ser analisado. De todo modo essa "ciência social" levanta questões que são problemas reais da sociedade. Ao focarmos na gênese desse conhecimento, gostaríamos aqui de mostrar precisamente a dimensão sociológica desses escritos, próximos à antropologia, praticados sobretudo por médicos, alguns juristas interessados no âmbito social e no impacto de seus trabalhos sobre as possíveis transformações do mundo. ; La criminologie a aujourd'hui une actualité traversée par de nombreuses controverses, que ce soit sur son institutionnalisation, son développement dans le cadre d'un marché de la sécurité florissant, ou les emprunts qui y ont été faits lors de lois pénales assez récentes[1]. La criminologie a été abordée sous une forme picaresque et colorée or, il y a un vrai phénomène criminologie à analyser, tant cette "science sociale" relève des questions qui sont de réels problèmes de société. En s'attachant à la genèse de ce savoir, nous voudrions ici précisément montrer la dimension sociologique de ces écrits, proches de l'anthropologie, portés plutôt par des médecins, quelques juristes intéressés par le social et par l'impact de leurs travaux sur les possibles transformations du monde. Mots-Clés: Science – Criminologie – Sociologie - France – Europe XIXème siècle – Politique – Savoirs de Gouvernement. n d'irresponsabilité pénale pour cause de trouble mental du 25 février 2008 ; Criminology today is riddled with much controversy, either because of its institutionalization, because of its development as part of a thriving security market or as loans that were made in very recent criminal laws. Criminology was approached in a picaresque and colorful way or as a way to address a real criminological phenomenon to be analyzed. In any case, this "social science" raises questions that are real problems for society. In focusing on the genesis of this knowledge, we would like here to show precisely the sociological dimension of these writings, close to anthropology, practiced mainly by doctors, some jurists interested in the social scope and the impact of their work on the possible transformations of the world.

The object of criminology is to investigate and explicate conducts contradicting social order. The roots of this science originate from the thoughts of the first generation of sensible men who were able to reflect over aggressive actions, suchlike murders or any other criminal conducts breaking social rules. In terms of moral, religious, philosophical or political outlook, the inception of criminology is even more ancient whereas from the doctrinal point of view, the origin of this science has been considered the XIX century. Later on, from the middle of the past century and on, while it was developing gradually, issues related to criminal offenses and felons were treated legally, considerations that had an effect into the future of the science in word. Criminal act may be related to political, legal, constabulary, medical, psychological or sociological issues. Deviation and criminal offenses should be analysed in terms of all these domains and precisely this is where criminology should be justified as a science, considering the pro and contrary attitudes, regarding its role as an auxiliary discipline. Therefore, it is crucial for the science of criminology not to experience any critical situations of other social sciences and not get apart from its base ideals. It should be linked more with the reality, including all actors, the society and its values, culture, etc., and respond to questions related to its own object of study, acknowledging limitations and fully playing its role in an unstable society in continuous transformation while considering the effects of its intrusions.

Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime. In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family. The book provides criminology students with an understanding of key social policy issues, and introduces criminological theory to social policy students. It is designed to cover the core components of courses i