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1 online resource (585 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Routledge Handbook of International Criminology; Copyright; Contents; Plates; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Progress of international criminology; Part I: Methods and theories; 2. Introduction to international research challenges; 3. Doing criminology in the "semi-periphery" and the "periphery": In search of a post-colonial criminology; 4. International criminology: Qualitative research on polluted actors; 5. Quantitative criminology: Crime and justice statistics across nations |
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6. The Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group: A decade of progress7. A question of good governance? Developments in crime prevention internationally; 8. Transferring Western theory: A comparative and culture-sensitive perspective of crime research in China; 9. The legacy of INTERPOL crime data to cross-national criminology; 10. Research methods overview: The missing pieces of rigorous research; Part II: Special topics; 11. Introduction to special topics in international criminology; 12. The impact of United Nations crime conventions on international cooperation |
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13. The United Nations and criminology14. International criminal courts; 15. International identity crime; 16. Cybercrime and online safety in cyberspace; 17. Immigration and criminology; 18. Trafficking in persons; 19. Trafficking in antiquities; 20. Trafficking of "conflict diamonds"; 21. Conceptualizing and studying organized crime in a global context: Possible? indispensable? superfluous?; 22. Hong Kong triads; 23. Ants moving houses -- cross-border drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle; 24. The production of ecstasy in the Netherlands; 25. Drug violence in Colombia |
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26. The basics of terrorism and counterterrorism27. The ambivalent role of Italian prosecutors and their resistance to 'moral panics' about crime; Part III: Criminology and criminal justice in context; 28. Introduction to country assessments; 29. Australia: the state of criminology; 30. Brazil: The state of criminology; 31. Canada: The state of criminology; 32. Cambodia: A criminal justice system in transition; 33. Chile: A criminological approach; 34. Colombia: Crime trends, criminal justice, and criminology in a society in turmoil |
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35. Estonia: Crime, criminal justice, and criminology in a changing socio-economic context36. Ghana: The state of criminology in a changing society; 37. Great Britain: criminology and criminal justice; 38. Hong Kong: The state of criminology; 39. India: The state of criminology in a developing nation; 40. Italy: An overview of criminology; 41. South Korea: Current trends and issues in crime and criminal justice; 42. Mexico: The state of criminology and public safety; 43. Nigeria: Social structure, criminal justice and criminology; 44. The Netherlands: The state of criminology |
| Summary |
This Handbook showcases the latest thinking and findings from a group of senior and promising young scholars around the world who & nbsp;have come & nbsp;together in an effort to broaden our perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders and nationalities. It is divided into three parts, in which three distinct but overlapping types of crime are presented and discussed: international crime, transnational crime, and national crime |
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45. People's Republic of China: The state of criminology |
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Print version record |
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Criminology.
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Crime.
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Criminology
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criminology.
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Crime.
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Criminology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zhang, Sheldon X
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Barberet, Rosemary
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| ISBN |
9780203864708 |
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0203864700 |
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