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Technologies of InSecurity

The Surveillance of Everyday Life

Edited by Katja Franko Aas, Helene Oppen Gundhus, Heidi Mork Lomell

Technologies of Insecurity examines how general social and political concerns about terrorism, crime, migration and globalization are translated into concrete practices of securitisation of everyday...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46455-0 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Deterrence and Crime Prevention

Reconsidering the prospect of sanction

By David M. Kennedy

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77415-4 (Routledge)

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Sport and Crime Reduction

The Role of Sports in Tackling Youth Crime

By Geoff Nichols

The use of sports-based activity programmes as a means of tackling crime has been explored in a number of countries worldwide, particularly in relation to...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39648-6 (Routledge)

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Plural Policing

A Comparative Perspective

Edited by Trevor Jones, Tim Newburn

Policing is changing rapidly and radically. An increasingly complex array of public, private and municipal bodies - as well as public police forces - are...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35511-7 (Routledge)

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Crime Reduction and the Law

Edited by Kate Moss, Mike Stephens

This innovative and pioneering new book establishes links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely offering a detailed examination of how specific legislation and performance targets aid...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35144-7 (Routledge)

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Managing Modernity

Politics and the Culture of Control

Edited by Matt Matravers

In the last thirty years, the USA and the UK have witnessed a profound change in the way in which we think about and respond...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34805-8 (Routledge)

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Crime, Disorder and Community Safety

By Roger Matthews, John Pitts

This book provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime prevention, disorder and community safety in contemporary society. Bringing together nine...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24231-8 (Routledge)

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Policing Citizens

Police, Power and the State

By P.A.J. Waddington

1998 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-693-9 (Routledge)

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