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38 produkter
Towards a Malaysian Criminology
Conflict, Censure and Compromise
Inbunden, 2020
1748 kr
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This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country. This text connects contemporary crime problems with historical …
Offending Women in Contemporary China
Gender and Pathways into Crime
Av A. Shen
Inbunden, 2014
551 kr
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Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and …
Cloaking White-Collar Crime in Hong Kong's Property Sector
Av Yujing Fun
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains how Hong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the prevalence of white collar crime in the city's …
Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Evolving Science of Criminology in South Asia
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Inbunden, 2017
1576 kr
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Written by some of the most notable criminologists of South Asia, this book examines advances in law, criminal justice, and criminology in South Asia with particular reference to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The edited collection explores, on the basis of surveys, interviews, court records, and …
Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Av Shampa Roy
Inbunden, 2017
1259 kr
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This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender. It analyses crime-centred fiction and non-fiction in the region to see how actual or imagined crimes related to women were shaped …
Victim-Offender Reconciliation in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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This book examines the conciliatory institutions that operate within criminal law in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. Despite having the same legal traditions, the two countries have taken very different political and social roads over the past century. Taking these important factors into …
Policing in Hong Kong
Research and Practice
Av Kam C. Wong
Inbunden, 2015
1095 kr
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This comprehensive book examines the state of research on policing in Hong Kong. It surveys the history and development of the field of police studies in Hong Kong, and examines the various methods, problems and prospects in the field.
Women in the Hong Kong Police Force
Organizational Culture, Gender and Colonial Policing
Av Annie Hau-Nung Chan, Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho
Inbunden, 2017
1128 kr
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This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current …
Women in the Hong Kong Police Force
Organizational Culture, Gender and Colonial Policing
Av Annie Hau-Nung Chan, Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho
Häftad, 2018
1128 kr
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This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current …
Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China
Community Sanctions and Measures
Av Qi Chen
Häftad, 2019
986 kr
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This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and community sentences. Drawing …
Crime in Japan
A Psychological Perspective
Av Laura Bui, David P. Farrington
Inbunden, 2019
1016 kr
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This book reviews research on psychology and crime in Japan, and compares the findings with similar research conducted in Western industrialised countries. It examines explanations for crime and antisocial behaviour in Japan using research and theories from a psychological perspective. Topics …
Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border
Inbunden, 2019
878 kr
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This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People’s Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach. It draws upon qualitative and quantitative methods, case studies, interviews and survey data from criminal …
Children and Crime in India
Causes, Narratives and Interventions
Av Saju Parackal, Rita Panicker
Inbunden, 2019
878 kr
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This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system. It draws on in-depth, qualitative research carried out by an NGO which included …
Children and Crime in India
Causes, Narratives and Interventions
Av Saju Parackal, Rita Panicker
Häftad, 2020
627 kr
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This book offers a sociological exploration of street children in India and what pulls and pushes them into delinquency, at a time when the government of India is contemplating strengthening its juvenile justice system. It draws on in-depth, qualitative research carried out by an NGO which included …
Gangs of Bangladesh
Mastaans, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka
Inbunden, 2019
932 kr
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This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It …
Gangs of Bangladesh
Mastaans, Street Gangs and ‘Illicit Child Labourers’ in Dhaka
Häftad, 2020
660 kr
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This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It …
Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
Inbunden, 2019
312 kr
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This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some …
Japan's Prosecution Review Commission
On the Democratic Oversight of Decisions Not To Charge
Inbunden, 2023
1308 kr
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This book explains Japan’s unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists. Each of the country’s 165 PRCs reviews non-charge decisions made by professional prosecutors and determines which cases should be …
Japan's Prosecution Review Commission
On the Democratic Oversight of Decisions Not To Charge
Häftad, 2024
1308 kr
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This book explains Japan’s unique Prosecution Review Commission (PRC) which is composed of eleven lay people selected randomly from voter registration lists. Each of the country’s 165 PRCs reviews non-charge decisions made by professional prosecutors and determines which cases should be …
Counter-Narratives to Terrorism in Pakistan
Breaking the Cycle
Inbunden, 2026
1313 kr
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The book explores the concept of counter-narratives to terrorism within the context of Pakistan’s unique socio-political, cultural, and historical experiences. It provides actionable insights to combat extremism, focusing on the role of ideology, socio-economic reforms, and community engagement in …
Women in Correctional Homes in West Bengal
Sisterhood in Distress
Inbunden, 2026
1422 kr
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This book investigates the experiences of women inmates in Alipore Women’s Correctional Home and Dum Dum Central Correctional Home in West Bengal, India. It explores their socio-economic background, the major factors that led to their incarceration, the nature of their crimes, the problems that …
Terrorism and Reintegration in Malaysia
A Legal-Criminological Approach
Av Haezreena Begum Abdul Hamid
Inbunden, 2026
1422 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive legal-criminological study of terrorism and reintegration in Malaysia, positioning the country within wider Southeast Asian and global debates. Despite its strategic role in regional counter-terrorism and rehabilitation efforts, Malaysia remains understudied …
Restorative Justice in China
A Paradox of Powerhouse and Resistance
Av Yan Zhang
Inbunden, 2026
1388 kr
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This monograph provides an empirical and theoretical exploration of restorative justice (RJ) in China, the world’s largest and most diverse RJ system, yet one that remains underexplored in global socio-legal and criminological scholarship. Based on extensive fieldwork—including semi-structured …
Iran and the Death Penalty
A Socio-cultural History
Av Maria Rasekh
Inbunden, 2027
1508 kr
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This book examines why Iran carries out a high number of executions and takes positions that differ markedly from much of the Western world, where the death penalty has largely been abolished. According to the UN, at least 1,639 people were executed in Iran in 2025. Seen through Western eyes, these …
Theorising a Lens of Labour
Re-thinking Gangs and Organised Crime in a Pan-Asian Context
Inbunden, 2026
474 kr
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This book introduces a theoretical framework for considering young people’s involvement in gangs and organised crime. This framework – a ‘lens of labour’ proposes a new way of considering young people and their relationship with crime. The labour lens moves away from the problematic and arguably …
Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice
From Jurors to Lay Judges
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system. It takes a particular focus on the highly public start of the mixed court, the saiban-in system, and the jury system between 1928-1943. This was the first time Japanese citizens participated …
Bullying and Violence in South Korea
From Home to School and Beyond
Av Trent Bax
Inbunden, 2017
1095 kr
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This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society. Bullying and violence has been a pressing societal issue since 2011, having been labelled as a 'social evil' to be eradicated by the government. However, the issue has been …
Women Judges in Contemporary China
Gender, Judging and Living
Av Anqi Shen
Inbunden, 2017
1240 kr
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This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of the Chinese legal system and wider society, revealing a deeper understanding of women in contemporary China. Shen explores the gendered nature of judging in post-Mao China by examining: who female …
Delinquent Youth in a Transforming China
A Generation of Strain
Av Wan-Ning Bao
Inbunden, 2018
1530 kr
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This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them. More broadly, it draws on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory and Agnew’s …
Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China
Community Sanctions and Measures
Av Qi Chen
Inbunden, 2018
1308 kr
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This book outlines how community sentences and early release options are administered in China. Chen provides empirical insights into the emerging community sector of the Chinese penal system, and illustrates how Chinese criminal courts decide between imprisonment and community sentences. Drawing …
