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 …
CD Shearing, L Johnston - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
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 …
M Desmond, N Valdez - American sociological review, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
C Shearing, J Wood - Crime and Security, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …