PUNISHMENT, PLACES AND PERPETRATORS: DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH; ED. BY GERDEN BRUINSMA

This book brings together an influential group of academics and researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States.

bruinsma (criminology, Leiden University, The Netherlands) Brings Together Academics And Researchers To Review Key Areas Of Research, Theory, And Methodology Within Criminology And Criminal Justice And To Identify New Challenges Facing The Discipline. Contributors From Europe, The Uk, And The Us Focus On Three Central Themes Of Punishment And Criminal Justice, Location And Mobility, And Perpetrators And Criminal Careers. Material Is Based On Papers First Presented At The 10th Anniversary Meeting Of The Netherlands Institute For The Study Of Crime And Law Enforcement. The Book Is Distributed In The Us By Isbs. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

This book reviews key areas of research, theory and methodology within criminology and criminal justice from a multidisciplinary and international approach. It also goes on to identify the most important new challenges facing the discipline. For more than three centuries scientists have studied systematically crime and law enforcement to understand the causes of crime and to identify strategies to prevent delinquency and to reduce recidivism. A collection of 18 papers on three central themes of punishment & criminal justice, location & mobility, and perpetrators and criminal careers