Legitimacy (or “the right to exercise power”) is now an established concept in criminological
analysis, especially in relation to policing. Substantial empirical evidence shows the …

How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is
different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What impact might …

From gang-and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and
movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news …

Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades. These
transformations have been mirrored in, and often prefigured by, changes in the governance …

The SAGE Key Approaches to Criminology series celebrates the removal of traditional
barriers between disciplines and, specifically, reflects criminology's interdisciplinary nature …

Recent decades have witnessed a double movement within the field of crime control
characterized by the prison boom and intensive policing, on the one hand, and widespread …

Crime in an Insecure World investigates the alarming trend across Western societies of
treating every imaginable source of harm as a crime. It locates this trend in the 21st century …

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and
promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental …

Citizens, it is said, have'lost faith'in the English police. Opinion polls repeatedly show that
trust in, and respect for, the police have declined precipitously from the historically high …

This chapter reviews the growth of community nodes in the governance of security with an
eye to examining their implications for conceiving of “common” goods. State agents have …