Criminology - Oxford Bibliographies
Crime Trends
Eric P. Baumer
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Crime Trends Introduction Although there are a few rich historical studies of crime trends and some research on both cross-national and American...
Criminal Career Research
Lila Kazemian
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Criminal Career Research Introduction Criminal career research is concerned with changes in offending patterns over time. In 1983, the Nati...
Criminal Justice Ethics
John Kleinig
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Criminal Justice Ethics Introduction The scope of criminal justice ethics is usually construed narrowly to encompass a range of concrete and mi...
Criminal Justice System, Discretion in the
Shawn D. Bushway, Brian Forst
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Discretion in the Criminal Justice System Introduction Discretion is the latitude granted officials to act under a formal set of rules and in a p...
Criminal Retaliation
Scott Jacques
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Criminal Retaliation Introduction Retaliation is about getting even. Rather than relying on the state for help, some victims take the law into ...
Critical Criminology
Michael J. Lynch
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Critical Criminology Introduction Like orthodox criminology, critical criminology has developed numerous specialties, and thus it is no lon...
Cross-National Crime
Janet Stamatel
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Cross-National Crime Introduction The terms “cross-national criminology,” “international criminology,” and “comparative criminology” are often u...
Cultural Criminology
Keith Hayward
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Cultural Criminology Introduction Cultural criminology is a distinct theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach to the study of...
Cultural Theories
Thomas Holt
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Cultural Theories Introduction Cultural theories of crime provide distinct frameworks to understand the influence of human agency, social force...
Cybercrime
Thomas Holt
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Cybercrime Introduction There is no standard unit of analysis, and multiple terms are used to describe offenses often classified as cybercrim...
Desistance
Lila Kazemian
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Desistance Introduction In the field of criminology, desistance is generally defined as the cessation of offending or other antisocial beha...
Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
Lila Kazemian
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Developmental and Life-Course Criminology Introduction Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes i...
Drug Control
Martin Bouchard, Morena Anamali
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Drug Control Introduction A number of psychoactive substances such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines have been defined as ill...
Drug Trafficking, International
Erik D. Fritsvold
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
International Drug Trafficking Introduction The global illegal drug trade is massive in scope with sweeping consequences for the developed and...
Drugs and Crime
Richard Wright, Scott Jacques
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Drugs and Crime Introduction The relationship between drugs and crime has a long history and is a mainstay of fiction, widely documented in...
Environmental Crime and Justice
Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Environmental Crime and Justice Introduction Traditionally, environmental crime and justice were viewed as issues for researchers working i...
Experimental Criminology
Lorraine Mazerolle, Sarah Bennett
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Experimental Criminology Introduction Experimental criminology is a family of research methods that involves the controlled study of cause and ...
False and Coerced Confessions
Robert J. Norris, Allison Redlich
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
False and Coerced Confessions Introduction In the past two decades, the scholarly interest in and literature on false and coerced confessions h...
Family Violence
Karen Terry
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Family Violence Introduction Broadly defined, family violence is any form of violent crime committed by a family member. The most common ty...
Fear of Crime and Perceived Risk
Lynn A. Addington
Subject: Criminology »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Fear of Crime and Perceived Risk Introduction Fear of crime constitutes a topic of significant interest for criminologists and has generate...
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