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Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Edited by Vanessa E. Munro, University of Nottingham, UK and Marina Della Giusta, University of Reading, UK
ISBN: 978 0754671503
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: September 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Interrogating supply/demand from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, this collection broadens engagement beyond the routine analysis of the locus of violence in prostitution and the validity of the prostitute's consent. A focus on the supply/demand dynamic brings into play a range of other societal, economic and psychological factors such as the social construction of sexuality, the viability of alternative choices for prostitutes and clients, and the impact of regulatory regimes on the provision of sexual services. The factors which underlie each component of the supply/demand dyad are also studied and an examination is made of their dynamic interrelation. The collection emphasizes the importance of rendering policy makers alert to the evidence emerging from empirical studies conducted in different fields of enquiry, in the hope of moving beyond polarity and politics at the local, national and international level.
Contents:
Editors' introduction: the regulation of prostitution: contemporary contexts
and comparative perspectives, Vanessa E. Munroe and Marina Della Giusta; Legal incursions into supply/demand: criminalising and responsibilising the buyers and sellers of sex in the UK, Jane Scoular and Maggie O'Neill; Be helped or else! Economic exploitation, male violence and prostitution policy in the UK, Jo Phoenix; Wolfenden 50: revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK, Sophie Day; The construction of prostitutes and clients in French policy debates, Gill Allwood; Exploring exploitation: trafficking in sex, work and sex work, Vanessa E. Munro; Putting trafficking on the map: the geography of feminist complicity, Sharron A. Fitzgerald; Simulating the impact of regulation changes on the market for prostitution services, Marina Della Giusta; Client participation and the regulatory environment, Alan Collins and Guy Judge; Criminalising the use of trafficked prostitutes: some philosophical issues, David Archard; Why hate men who pay for sex? Exploring the shift to 'tackling demand' in the UK, Teela Sanders and Rosie Campbell; The consumer, the consumed and the commodity: women and sex buyers talk about objectification in prostitution, Madeleine Coy; Index.
About the Editors:
Vanessa Munro is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. Her research is framed by a feminist theoretical analysis, and is especially concerned with the law's engagement with the parameters of women's consent. She has published extensively on aspects of feminist legal and political theory.
Dr Marina Della Giusta is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading. Her research interests are in Development economics, in particular economics of trust and social capital, roles of institutions and social mechanisms in market access, prostitution, and gender. She has published widely in these and related areas.
Reviews to Date:
'This text cleverly deconstructs concepts such as exploitation and trafficking which have captured the political and moral imagination. Its first-rate legal analysis provides theoretical clarity regarding the concept of exploitation to expose the highly moralized and politicized context in which contested claims are made about these issues. It also explores the economic and social burden of punitive and coercive regulation in sex work to provide the analysis necessary for policy reform. This is not only one of the best feminist books on sex work policy I have read but also the best critical criminological edited collection on sex work there is and certainly the most articulate analysis of the current debate.' Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Gun Law
Edition: 1st
International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second Series
Format: Hardback
Authors: Edited by Rob Hornsby, and Dick Hobbs
ISBN: 978 0754625858
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £140
Publication Date: July 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Gun Crime brings together a collection of texts drawn from a diverse range of disciplines which have contributed towards understanding the impact of gun crime within western societies. The book is divided into four interconnected sections which examine the use of firearms to commit offences. Part one explores the problems of youth, gang membership and guns in society. Part two examines the act of robbery where firearms are deployed by criminals in order to facilitate and commission robbery offences. Part three analyses the problem of violence and homicide associated with firearm offending. In the fourth and final part of the collection the texts focus on firearm injury trauma caused as a result of gun crime. The book provides insights for students and researchers, law enforcement agencies, community-based activists and policy-makers seeking to understand issues embedded within firearms offending and to develop initiatives to tackle gun crime.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Youth, Gangs and Guns: Gang-related gun violence: socialization, identity and self, Paul B. Stretesky and Mark R. Pogrebin; Gangs, gang homicides, and gang loyalty: organized crimes or disorganized criminals, Scott H. Decker and G.David Curry; The role of firearms in violence 'scripts': the dynamics of gun events among adolescent males, Deanna L. Wilkinson and Jeffrey Fagan; Gun crime: the market in and use of illegal firearms, Gavin Hales, Chris Lewis and Daniel Silverstone; Early onset offending and later violent and gun outcomes in a contemporary youth cohort, Cynthia Perez McCluskey, John D. McCluskey and Timothy S. Bynum; The association between weapon-carrying and the use of violence among adolescents living in or around public housing, Robert H. DuRant, Alan G. Getts, Chris Cadenhead and Elizabeth R. Woods; Examining the arsenal of juvenile gunslingers: trends and policy implications, Rick Ruddell and G. Larry Mays; 'Getting high and getting by': dimensions of drug selling behaviours among American Mexican gang members in South Texas, Avelardo Valdez and Stephen J. Sifaneck. Part II Robbery and Firearms: Stick-up, street culture, and offender motivation, Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright; Up it up: gender and the accomplishment of street robbery, Jody Miller; Possession and use of illegal guns among offenders in England and Wales, Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway; Generating compliance: the case of robbery, David F. Luckenbill; Armed and dangerous? the use of firearms in robbery, Ian O'Donnell and Shona Morrison; 'Stick 'em up, buddy': robbery, lifestyle, and specialization within a cohort of parolees, Shawn L. Schwaner; Robbery violence, Philip J. Cook. Part III Gun Crime, Violence and Homicide: Weapon use and violent crime: national crime victimization survey, 1993-2001, Craig Perkins; To kill or not to kill? Lethal outcomes in injurious attacks, Richard B. Felson and Steven F. Messner; Exploring the drugs-homicide connection, Sean P. Varano, John D. McCluskey, Justin W. Patchin and Timothy S. Bynum; Retaliatory homicide: concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood culture, Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer; Social capital, income inequality and firearm violent crime, Bruce P. Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Protherow-Stith, Kimberly Lochner and Vanita Gupta; National case-control study of homicide offending and gun ownership, Gary Kleck and Michael Hogan; The prevalence and nature of violent offending by females, Barbara A. Koons-Witt and Pamela J. Schram; Investigating the connections between race, illicit drug markets, and lethal violence, 1984-1997, Graham C. Ousey and Matthew R. Lee; Deadly demographics: population characteristics and forecasting homicide trends, James Alan Fox and Alex R. Piquero; Firearm use by offenders: survey of inmates in state and federal correctional facilities, Caroline Wolf Harlow. Part IV Stitching Up the Pieces: Firearm Injury Trauma from Criminal Offending: Firearm injury and death from crime, 1993-97, Marianne W. Zawitz and Kevin J. Strom; Children who are shot: a 30 year experience, Danielle Laraque, Barbara Barlow; Maureen Durkin, Joy Howell, Franklyn Cladis, David Friedman, Carla DiScala, Rao Ivatury and William Stahl; Assaultive violence in the community: psychological responses of adolescent victims and their parents, Kathy Sanders-Phillips; Gunshot injuries to the extremities: experience of a UK trauma centre, I.J. Persad, R. Srinivas Reddy, M.A. Saunders and J. Patel; Index.
About the Editors: Rob Hornsby is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Sociology and Criminology at Northumbria University, UK. Dick Hobbs is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Edited by CMV Clarkson and Sally Cunningham
ISBN: 978 0754673347
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher's Title Information
The crime of manslaughter exists as a 'catch-all offence' to punish those who are blameworthy in causing the death of another but whose culpability falls short of that required for murder. Manslaughter is an extremely broad offence and it has a difficult task in ensuring that all those who warrant punishment for `non-aggressive' deaths are convicted. Simultaneously, it should not be too broad in covering those who do not warrant punishment for such deaths. There is little consistency in whether a particular dangerous activity leads to liability for a specific offence or for the generic offence of manslaughter when death is caused. This book examines the current law and includes a variety of perspectives on the subject with chapters on specific modes of killing as well as issues that permeate all areas. The first half of the book deals with issues such as how any special offences for non-aggressive death should relate to a hierarchy of homicide offences. The second half deals with issues specific to different activities, which may or may not justify the creation of specific homicide offences. The book includes a comparative chapter on Australian law.
Reviews to Date
'This is a timely volume, following as it does a recent flurry of reform proposals in the field of homicide. Its aim is to consider whether the ancient offence of manslaughter may be too blunt an instrument to address such a variety of killings as is highlighted in this volume or whether specific statutory offences offer a preferable solution. The editors should be congratulated for bringing together commentators of such distinction, of such breadth of opinion and approach. The discussion ranges from the philosophical to the political, to the doctrinal. Each chapter offers a challenging analysis of some aspect of the current law. It should be read by anyone who is interested in the state of criminal homicide and in the prospects for reform'.
David Ormerod, Queen Mary College, University of London.
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Governing the Heroin Trade - From Treaties to Treatment
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Melissa Bull
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7121-3
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: July 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Examining the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs, this study investigates the problem of drug control and provides a systematic analysis of the development of the international system of regulation. It identifies the political rationalities that provided the basis of that system and positions these moral justifications for exercising power in relation to the practical programmes that put them into practice. The work not only catalogues the techniques and strategies employed in the process of governing illicit drugs, it also notes the failures, unintended consequences and other difficulties associated with getting such programmes to work. It will be of key interest to students and scholars of crime and criminology, law and society, medico-legal studies and health studies.
Contents: The problem of control; Regulating opium; Preserving the nation state; An ungoverned domain; Supply in demand; Security and freedom: rethinking drug control; References; Index.
The Author: Dr Melissa Bull is a Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. She has been a long-term participant in drug policy debate. She has published scholarly articles on addiction, drug treatment, criminal justice policy and drug regulation.
Reviews to date:
'Governing the Heroin Trade sweeps through most of our common assumptions about how drugs have become a modern curse. In Melissa Bull's analysis, the shape of present concerns about heroin addiction appears somewhat strange, its truthfulness less certain. The value of a solid history of human sciences for understanding how we are governed is amply demonstrated here.'
David McCallum, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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International Drug Control Into The 21st Century
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Hamid Ghodse
ISBN: 978 0754672159
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: July 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Providing a comprehensive analysis of drug misuse, dependence and the ways in which different parts of the world have responded to these problems, this volume examines aspects of the contemporary drug problem, the related debate and the way in which society is responding to it.
Various controversial issues are covered, taking into account the way in which pressure groups would like to see changes in national and/or international drug control regimes. The book is drawn from extensive studies carried out by the UN over the last 15 years; each of the themes has been examined by a group of experts and lends itself to debate. Among the many topics discussed are: the legalization of drugs, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, the macro and micro economy, supply and demand reduction and money laundering. The book will be a valuable resource for professionals and academics in law enforcement, health, social services, behavioural sciences, pharmacy and drug regulatory agencies.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; International drug control system; Legalization of internationally controlled drugs; Drugs and the importance of demand reduction; Evaluation of the effectiveness of the international drug control treaties; Money laundering; Drug abuse and criminal justice; Preventing drug abuse in an environment of illicit drug promotion; International control of drugs: past, present and future; Freedom from pain and suffering; Overconsumption of internationally controlled drugs; Globalization and new technologies: challenges to drug law enforcement in the 21st century; Illicit drugs and economic development; Drugs, crime and violence: the microlevel impact; Integration of supply and demand reduction strategies: moving beyond a balanced approach; Alternative development and legitimate livelihoods; Internationally controlled drugs and the unregulated market; Index.
About the Editor
Hamid Ghodse, CBE, MD, PhD, DSc, DPM, FFPH, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPsych, is Professor of Psychiatry and International Drug Policy at the University of London. He has worked for more than 35 years in the field of addictions, advancing clinical and academic understanding and policy, and working towards national and international drug control. His contribution to various aspects of University, Royal Colleges, National Health Service and voluntary agencies has been exemplary, and for this he was awarded the CBE. He is editor of International Psychiatry, Honorary Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Drug Dependence and editorial board member of Addiction, International Journal of Social Psychiatry and other journals. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of WHO on Drug Abuse. He has been President of the International Narcotics Control Board, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2000-01 and 2004-2005.
Reviews to Date:
'A timely and topical book from one of the world's leading drug control experts. It traces the evolution of the international drug control regime, and measures that have been taken to contain supply, trafficking, and demand. It puts a strong focus on public health and public security, as well as the legal and development implications of drug control. Dr. Ghodse's book enriches the world's understanding of drugs, and should contribute to evidence-based policy to better control them.'
Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
'The authoritative chapters presented in this book make it a "must read" for anyone seeking information about the international regulations for drug control in the 21st century. Hamid Ghodse has now made available to the general public his own expert knowledge and the reports previously only read by the selected few. Psychiatrists and health-care professionals around the world battling with co-morbidity will find it a most useful reference text.'
John Cox, Secretary General, World Psychiatric Association
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Internet Child Pornography and the Law
National and International Responses
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Yaman Akdeniz
ISBN: 978-0-7546-2297-0
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £60
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher's Title Information
This book provides a critical assessment of the problem of Internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, including a comparative assessment of laws in England and Wales, the United States of America and Canada in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The Internet raises novel and complex challenges to existing regulatory regimes. Efforts towards legal harmonization at the European Union, Council of Europe, and United Nations level are examined in this context and the utility of additional and alternative methods of regulation explored. This book argues that effective implementation, enforcement and harmonization of laws could substantially help to reduce the availability and dissemination of child pornography on the Internet. At the same time, panic-led policies must be avoided if the wider problems of child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation are to be meaningfully addressed.
Contents:
Introduction; Part 1 National Approaches: Legal approaches in England and Wales; Legal approaches in the United States of America; Legal approaches in Canada. Part 2 Supranational and International Approaches: European Union policy; Council of Europe policy; United Nations policy. Part 3 Internet Service Providers Liability and Self-Regulatory Approaches: Internet service providers' liability; Self-regulatory and co-regulatory initiatives; Conclusion; Index; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author: Yaman Akdeniz is Senior Lecturer in the Cyber Law Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds, UK.
Reviews to date: 'In Internet Child Pornography and The Law, Yaman Akdeniz does an excellent job of applying responsible, thoughtful, scholarship to a subject often surrounded by misinformation. This is an important book for anyone interested in understanding how law and legal thinking must be reshaped to respond to globalization and new technologies.'
Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University, USA
'Yaman Akdeniz's book is an important and timely contribution to this area of research. It brings a coherent perspective to an otherwise fragmented, and at times contradictory, arena and provides a balanced perspective on what has become an increasingly emotive topic. This will be an invaluable source of information to all whose work relates to child pornography and will help inform both practitioners and policy makers.'
Ethel Quayle, University College Cork, Ireland
Decisions to Imprison
Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law
Series: Advances in Criminology
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Rasmus H. Wandall
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7157-2
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison. Focusing on the operations of the courtroom participants, his work investigates how court decision-making is organized to allow the sentencing procedure to be open to more than its formal legal framework, while at the same time keeping the sentencing within the boundaries of law and legal validity. The author uses the theory of law's operational closure, developed by Niklas Luhmann. The theory provides an advantageous point of departure to capture the close and subtle interactions between law's need for validity and for contextual openness in every legal operation - including court decision-making.
Contents
Introduction; Inside and outside the law; The legal framework of decisions to imprison; Decisions to imprison: a statistical point of view; Description of court and case-handling; Organizing courtroom communication; Decisions to imprison in the courtroom; Ideologies of imprisonment in the courtroom; Decisions to imprison inside and outside the law; Closing perspectives; Appendices; References; Index.
Reviews-to-date
'This book is a significant contribution to the international literature on sentencing. Not only does it break new ground as an empirical study of sentencing behaviour in Scandinavia, but it also draws upon Luhmann´s theoretical perspectives and places its insights within the framework of Anglo-American sentencing scholarship. The book contains a close analysis of the construction of sentencing decisions and a nuanced criminological assessment of the role of informal but nevertheless significant court practices - an assessment that carries through to the implications for offenders in lower socio-economic groups. I commend this book to all those interested in the theory and practice of sentencing.'
Andrew Ashworth, University of Oxford, UK
'In this timely and excellent study on sentencing, Rasmus Wandall joins a growing number of empirical researchers who are finding Luhmann's idea of closed social systems to be a fruitful and insightful way of making sense of the complexities of modern society. Rasmus Wandall is able to show how courts manage to legitimate imprisonment by reference to the law's own internally-produced criteria of lawfulness and practical reasoning. In doing so, they systematically block out the devastating effects of politically-inspired policies on the lives of the most vulnerable members of society.'
Michael King, University of Reading, UK
The Author
Rasmus H. Wandall is Assistant Research Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also a Criminal Justice Research Fellow at New York University, School of Law.
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Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Edited by Vanessa E. Munro, University of Nottingham, UK and Marina Della Giusta, University of Reading, UK
ISBN: 978 0754671503
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: September 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Interrogating supply/demand from an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective, this collection broadens engagement beyond the routine analysis of the locus of violence in prostitution and the validity of the prostitute's consent. A focus on the supply/demand dynamic brings into play a range of other societal, economic and psychological factors such as the social construction of sexuality, the viability of alternative choices for prostitutes and clients, and the impact of regulatory regimes on the provision of sexual services. The factors which underlie each component of the supply/demand dyad are also studied and an examination is made of their dynamic interrelation. The collection emphasizes the importance of rendering policy makers alert to the evidence emerging from empirical studies conducted in different fields of enquiry, in the hope of moving beyond polarity and politics at the local, national and international level.
Contents:
Editors' introduction: the regulation of prostitution: contemporary contexts
and comparative perspectives, Vanessa E. Munroe and Marina Della Giusta; Legal incursions into supply/demand: criminalising and responsibilising the buyers and sellers of sex in the UK, Jane Scoular and Maggie O'Neill; Be helped or else! Economic exploitation, male violence and prostitution policy in the UK, Jo Phoenix; Wolfenden 50: revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK, Sophie Day; The construction of prostitutes and clients in French policy debates, Gill Allwood; Exploring exploitation: trafficking in sex, work and sex work, Vanessa E. Munro; Putting trafficking on the map: the geography of feminist complicity, Sharron A. Fitzgerald; Simulating the impact of regulation changes on the market for prostitution services, Marina Della Giusta; Client participation and the regulatory environment, Alan Collins and Guy Judge; Criminalising the use of trafficked prostitutes: some philosophical issues, David Archard; Why hate men who pay for sex? Exploring the shift to 'tackling demand' in the UK, Teela Sanders and Rosie Campbell; The consumer, the consumed and the commodity: women and sex buyers talk about objectification in prostitution, Madeleine Coy; Index.
About the Editors:
Vanessa Munro is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. Her research is framed by a feminist theoretical analysis, and is especially concerned with the law's engagement with the parameters of women's consent. She has published extensively on aspects of feminist legal and political theory.
Dr Marina Della Giusta is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading. Her research interests are in Development economics, in particular economics of trust and social capital, roles of institutions and social mechanisms in market access, prostitution, and gender. She has published widely in these and related areas.
Reviews to Date:
'This text cleverly deconstructs concepts such as exploitation and trafficking which have captured the political and moral imagination. Its first-rate legal analysis provides theoretical clarity regarding the concept of exploitation to expose the highly moralized and politicized context in which contested claims are made about these issues. It also explores the economic and social burden of punitive and coercive regulation in sex work to provide the analysis necessary for policy reform. This is not only one of the best feminist books on sex work policy I have read but also the best critical criminological edited collection on sex work there is and certainly the most articulate analysis of the current debate.' Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Gun Law
Edition: 1st
International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology - Second Series
Format: Hardback
Authors: Edited by Rob Hornsby, and Dick Hobbs
ISBN: 978 0754625858
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £140
Publication Date: July 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Gun Crime brings together a collection of texts drawn from a diverse range of disciplines which have contributed towards understanding the impact of gun crime within western societies. The book is divided into four interconnected sections which examine the use of firearms to commit offences. Part one explores the problems of youth, gang membership and guns in society. Part two examines the act of robbery where firearms are deployed by criminals in order to facilitate and commission robbery offences. Part three analyses the problem of violence and homicide associated with firearm offending. In the fourth and final part of the collection the texts focus on firearm injury trauma caused as a result of gun crime. The book provides insights for students and researchers, law enforcement agencies, community-based activists and policy-makers seeking to understand issues embedded within firearms offending and to develop initiatives to tackle gun crime.
Contents: Introduction; Part I Youth, Gangs and Guns: Gang-related gun violence: socialization, identity and self, Paul B. Stretesky and Mark R. Pogrebin; Gangs, gang homicides, and gang loyalty: organized crimes or disorganized criminals, Scott H. Decker and G.David Curry; The role of firearms in violence 'scripts': the dynamics of gun events among adolescent males, Deanna L. Wilkinson and Jeffrey Fagan; Gun crime: the market in and use of illegal firearms, Gavin Hales, Chris Lewis and Daniel Silverstone; Early onset offending and later violent and gun outcomes in a contemporary youth cohort, Cynthia Perez McCluskey, John D. McCluskey and Timothy S. Bynum; The association between weapon-carrying and the use of violence among adolescents living in or around public housing, Robert H. DuRant, Alan G. Getts, Chris Cadenhead and Elizabeth R. Woods; Examining the arsenal of juvenile gunslingers: trends and policy implications, Rick Ruddell and G. Larry Mays; 'Getting high and getting by': dimensions of drug selling behaviours among American Mexican gang members in South Texas, Avelardo Valdez and Stephen J. Sifaneck. Part II Robbery and Firearms: Stick-up, street culture, and offender motivation, Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright; Up it up: gender and the accomplishment of street robbery, Jody Miller; Possession and use of illegal guns among offenders in England and Wales, Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway; Generating compliance: the case of robbery, David F. Luckenbill; Armed and dangerous? the use of firearms in robbery, Ian O'Donnell and Shona Morrison; 'Stick 'em up, buddy': robbery, lifestyle, and specialization within a cohort of parolees, Shawn L. Schwaner; Robbery violence, Philip J. Cook. Part III Gun Crime, Violence and Homicide: Weapon use and violent crime: national crime victimization survey, 1993-2001, Craig Perkins; To kill or not to kill? Lethal outcomes in injurious attacks, Richard B. Felson and Steven F. Messner; Exploring the drugs-homicide connection, Sean P. Varano, John D. McCluskey, Justin W. Patchin and Timothy S. Bynum; Retaliatory homicide: concentrated disadvantage and neighborhood culture, Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer; Social capital, income inequality and firearm violent crime, Bruce P. Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Protherow-Stith, Kimberly Lochner and Vanita Gupta; National case-control study of homicide offending and gun ownership, Gary Kleck and Michael Hogan; The prevalence and nature of violent offending by females, Barbara A. Koons-Witt and Pamela J. Schram; Investigating the connections between race, illicit drug markets, and lethal violence, 1984-1997, Graham C. Ousey and Matthew R. Lee; Deadly demographics: population characteristics and forecasting homicide trends, James Alan Fox and Alex R. Piquero; Firearm use by offenders: survey of inmates in state and federal correctional facilities, Caroline Wolf Harlow. Part IV Stitching Up the Pieces: Firearm Injury Trauma from Criminal Offending: Firearm injury and death from crime, 1993-97, Marianne W. Zawitz and Kevin J. Strom; Children who are shot: a 30 year experience, Danielle Laraque, Barbara Barlow; Maureen Durkin, Joy Howell, Franklyn Cladis, David Friedman, Carla DiScala, Rao Ivatury and William Stahl; Assaultive violence in the community: psychological responses of adolescent victims and their parents, Kathy Sanders-Phillips; Gunshot injuries to the extremities: experience of a UK trauma centre, I.J. Persad, R. Srinivas Reddy, M.A. Saunders and J. Patel; Index.
About the Editors: Rob Hornsby is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Sociology and Criminology at Northumbria University, UK. Dick Hobbs is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Edited by CMV Clarkson and Sally Cunningham
ISBN: 978 0754673347
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher's Title Information
The crime of manslaughter exists as a 'catch-all offence' to punish those who are blameworthy in causing the death of another but whose culpability falls short of that required for murder. Manslaughter is an extremely broad offence and it has a difficult task in ensuring that all those who warrant punishment for `non-aggressive' deaths are convicted. Simultaneously, it should not be too broad in covering those who do not warrant punishment for such deaths. There is little consistency in whether a particular dangerous activity leads to liability for a specific offence or for the generic offence of manslaughter when death is caused. This book examines the current law and includes a variety of perspectives on the subject with chapters on specific modes of killing as well as issues that permeate all areas. The first half of the book deals with issues such as how any special offences for non-aggressive death should relate to a hierarchy of homicide offences. The second half deals with issues specific to different activities, which may or may not justify the creation of specific homicide offences. The book includes a comparative chapter on Australian law.
Reviews to Date
'This is a timely volume, following as it does a recent flurry of reform proposals in the field of homicide. Its aim is to consider whether the ancient offence of manslaughter may be too blunt an instrument to address such a variety of killings as is highlighted in this volume or whether specific statutory offences offer a preferable solution. The editors should be congratulated for bringing together commentators of such distinction, of such breadth of opinion and approach. The discussion ranges from the philosophical to the political, to the doctrinal. Each chapter offers a challenging analysis of some aspect of the current law. It should be read by anyone who is interested in the state of criminal homicide and in the prospects for reform'.
David Ormerod, Queen Mary College, University of London.
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Governing the Heroin Trade - From Treaties to Treatment
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Melissa Bull
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7121-3
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: July 2008
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Examining the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs, this study investigates the problem of drug control and provides a systematic analysis of the development of the international system of regulation. It identifies the political rationalities that provided the basis of that system and positions these moral justifications for exercising power in relation to the practical programmes that put them into practice. The work not only catalogues the techniques and strategies employed in the process of governing illicit drugs, it also notes the failures, unintended consequences and other difficulties associated with getting such programmes to work. It will be of key interest to students and scholars of crime and criminology, law and society, medico-legal studies and health studies.
Contents: The problem of control; Regulating opium; Preserving the nation state; An ungoverned domain; Supply in demand; Security and freedom: rethinking drug control; References; Index.
The Author: Dr Melissa Bull is a Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. She has been a long-term participant in drug policy debate. She has published scholarly articles on addiction, drug treatment, criminal justice policy and drug regulation.
Reviews to date:
'Governing the Heroin Trade sweeps through most of our common assumptions about how drugs have become a modern curse. In Melissa Bull's analysis, the shape of present concerns about heroin addiction appears somewhat strange, its truthfulness less certain. The value of a solid history of human sciences for understanding how we are governed is amply demonstrated here.'
'Governing the Heroin Trade sweeps through most of our common assumptions about how drugs have become a modern curse. In Melissa Bull's analysis, the shape of present concerns about heroin addiction appears somewhat strange, its truthfulness less certain. The value of a solid history of human sciences for understanding how we are governed is amply demonstrated here.'
David McCallum, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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International Drug Control Into The 21st Century
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Hamid Ghodse
ISBN: 978 0754672159
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: July 2008
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Providing a comprehensive analysis of drug misuse, dependence and the ways in which different parts of the world have responded to these problems, this volume examines aspects of the contemporary drug problem, the related debate and the way in which society is responding to it.
Various controversial issues are covered, taking into account the way in which pressure groups would like to see changes in national and/or international drug control regimes. The book is drawn from extensive studies carried out by the UN over the last 15 years; each of the themes has been examined by a group of experts and lends itself to debate. Among the many topics discussed are: the legalization of drugs, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, the macro and micro economy, supply and demand reduction and money laundering. The book will be a valuable resource for professionals and academics in law enforcement, health, social services, behavioural sciences, pharmacy and drug regulatory agencies.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; International drug control system; Legalization of internationally controlled drugs; Drugs and the importance of demand reduction; Evaluation of the effectiveness of the international drug control treaties; Money laundering; Drug abuse and criminal justice; Preventing drug abuse in an environment of illicit drug promotion; International control of drugs: past, present and future; Freedom from pain and suffering; Overconsumption of internationally controlled drugs; Globalization and new technologies: challenges to drug law enforcement in the 21st century; Illicit drugs and economic development; Drugs, crime and violence: the microlevel impact; Integration of supply and demand reduction strategies: moving beyond a balanced approach; Alternative development and legitimate livelihoods; Internationally controlled drugs and the unregulated market; Index.
About the Editor
Hamid Ghodse, CBE, MD, PhD, DSc, DPM, FFPH, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPsych, is Professor of Psychiatry and International Drug Policy at the University of London. He has worked for more than 35 years in the field of addictions, advancing clinical and academic understanding and policy, and working towards national and international drug control. His contribution to various aspects of University, Royal Colleges, National Health Service and voluntary agencies has been exemplary, and for this he was awarded the CBE. He is editor of International Psychiatry, Honorary Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Drug Dependence and editorial board member of Addiction, International Journal of Social Psychiatry and other journals. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of WHO on Drug Abuse. He has been President of the International Narcotics Control Board, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2000-01 and 2004-2005.
Reviews to Date:
'A timely and topical book from one of the world's leading drug control experts. It traces the evolution of the international drug control regime, and measures that have been taken to contain supply, trafficking, and demand. It puts a strong focus on public health and public security, as well as the legal and development implications of drug control. Dr. Ghodse's book enriches the world's understanding of drugs, and should contribute to evidence-based policy to better control them.'
Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
'The authoritative chapters presented in this book make it a "must read" for anyone seeking information about the international regulations for drug control in the 21st century. Hamid Ghodse has now made available to the general public his own expert knowledge and the reports previously only read by the selected few. Psychiatrists and health-care professionals around the world battling with co-morbidity will find it a most useful reference text.'
John Cox, Secretary General, World Psychiatric Association
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Internet Child Pornography and the Law
National and International Responses
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Yaman Akdeniz
ISBN: 978-0-7546-2297-0
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £60
Publication Date: May 2008
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This book provides a critical assessment of the problem of Internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, including a comparative assessment of laws in England and Wales, the United States of America and Canada in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The Internet raises novel and complex challenges to existing regulatory regimes. Efforts towards legal harmonization at the European Union, Council of Europe, and United Nations level are examined in this context and the utility of additional and alternative methods of regulation explored. This book argues that effective implementation, enforcement and harmonization of laws could substantially help to reduce the availability and dissemination of child pornography on the Internet. At the same time, panic-led policies must be avoided if the wider problems of child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation are to be meaningfully addressed.
Contents:
Introduction; Part 1 National Approaches: Legal approaches in England and Wales; Legal approaches in the United States of America; Legal approaches in Canada. Part 2 Supranational and International Approaches: European Union policy; Council of Europe policy; United Nations policy. Part 3 Internet Service Providers Liability and Self-Regulatory Approaches: Internet service providers' liability; Self-regulatory and co-regulatory initiatives; Conclusion; Index; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author: Yaman Akdeniz is Senior Lecturer in the Cyber Law Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds, UK.
Reviews to date: 'In Internet Child Pornography and The Law, Yaman Akdeniz does an excellent job of applying responsible, thoughtful, scholarship to a subject often surrounded by misinformation. This is an important book for anyone interested in understanding how law and legal thinking must be reshaped to respond to globalization and new technologies.'
Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University, USA
'Yaman Akdeniz's book is an important and timely contribution to this area of research. It brings a coherent perspective to an otherwise fragmented, and at times contradictory, arena and provides a balanced perspective on what has become an increasingly emotive topic. This will be an invaluable source of information to all whose work relates to child pornography and will help inform both practitioners and policy makers.'
Ethel Quayle, University College Cork, Ireland
Decisions to Imprison
Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law
Series: Advances in Criminology
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardback
Author: Rasmus H. Wandall
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7157-2
Publishers: Ashgate
Price: £55
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher's Title Information
Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison. Focusing on the operations of the courtroom participants, his work investigates how court decision-making is organized to allow the sentencing procedure to be open to more than its formal legal framework, while at the same time keeping the sentencing within the boundaries of law and legal validity. The author uses the theory of law's operational closure, developed by Niklas Luhmann. The theory provides an advantageous point of departure to capture the close and subtle interactions between law's need for validity and for contextual openness in every legal operation - including court decision-making.
Contents
Introduction; Inside and outside the law; The legal framework of decisions to imprison; Decisions to imprison: a statistical point of view; Description of court and case-handling; Organizing courtroom communication; Decisions to imprison in the courtroom; Ideologies of imprisonment in the courtroom; Decisions to imprison inside and outside the law; Closing perspectives; Appendices; References; Index.
Reviews-to-date
'This book is a significant contribution to the international literature on sentencing. Not only does it break new ground as an empirical study of sentencing behaviour in Scandinavia, but it also draws upon Luhmann´s theoretical perspectives and places its insights within the framework of Anglo-American sentencing scholarship. The book contains a close analysis of the construction of sentencing decisions and a nuanced criminological assessment of the role of informal but nevertheless significant court practices - an assessment that carries through to the implications for offenders in lower socio-economic groups. I commend this book to all those interested in the theory and practice of sentencing.'
Andrew Ashworth, University of Oxford, UK
'In this timely and excellent study on sentencing, Rasmus Wandall joins a growing number of empirical researchers who are finding Luhmann's idea of closed social systems to be a fruitful and insightful way of making sense of the complexities of modern society. Rasmus Wandall is able to show how courts manage to legitimate imprisonment by reference to the law's own internally-produced criteria of lawfulness and practical reasoning. In doing so, they systematically block out the devastating effects of politically-inspired policies on the lives of the most vulnerable members of society.'
Michael King, University of Reading, UK
The Author
Rasmus H. Wandall is Assistant Research Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also a Criminal Justice Research Fellow at New York University, School of Law.
