Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Victimisation in the Digital Age: An Online/Offline Continuum Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Tine Munk, Morag Kennedy
January 30, 2026
Examining how victimisation can occur across the online-offline continuum while emphasising the need for a holistic approach to understanding and addressing contemporary harms, this book covers various themes of victimisation in the digital age linked to the interconnectedness and blurred ...
Pathways into and out of Youth Cybercrime: Research Findings and Reflections for Academics, Professionals and Policymakers
1st Edition
By Julia Davidson, Ruby Farr
January 15, 2026
This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of pathways into and out of youth cybercrime, and evidence-led ways to tackle the cybercrime epidemic, drawing on theoretical perspectives and insights from the largest European H2020 study of youth cybercrime undertaken to date. As societies ...
Neoliberalism and Punishment
1st Edition
By Ignacio González-Sánchez
October 27, 2025
Exploring the expansion of the penal system in Spain during the first 40 years of democracy, this book puts forward the importance of studying punishment from a sociological perspective and examines the neoliberal penality thesis. Today, Spain has more police officers and more people in prison than...
Contemporary Economic Crime: Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Michala Meiselles, Nicholas Ryder, Penelope Giosa
September 30, 2025
This edited collection explores the culpability of corporate bodies and international organisations and examines the different responses to economic offences such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, cybercrime, market manipulation, insider trading and market abuse. In a world where ...
Extremism and Radicalization in the Manosphere: Beta Uprising
1st Edition
By Deniese Kennedy-Kollar
September 28, 2025
This book presents an analysis of the male supremacist ideology of the internet-based subculture known as the manosphere and examines the process of radicalization to violent extremism that occurs within the group. The manosphere is the online subculture comprised of several distinct groups who ...
Public Opinion on Crime: Message Framing and Deliberative Democracy for a Progressive Consensus
1st Edition
By Thomas McNeil
September 22, 2025
Examining the interrelationship between political rhetoric, reactionarygovernments and discriminatory ideologies, this book offers a fuller account of how our views on crime are formed. From media headlines to community groups on social media, fear of crime permeates society. At its worst, societal...
The Social Construction of Kidnapping: A Critical Perspective
1st Edition
By Camilo Tamayo Gomez
August 15, 2025
Moving beyond simplistic and sensationalist portrayals of kidnapping, this book offers a critical and interdisciplinary analysis that examines kidnapping as a social, historical, cultural, and political phenomenon. Kidnapping is a profound violation of human rights that reshapes societies, disrupts...
Juvenile Delinquency, Victimization, and Justice in Chinese Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Yue Zhuo, Hua Zhong
July 31, 2025
Exploring the pressing issues of juvenile delinquency, victimization, and justice in Chinese societies, this book showcases contemporary research on these critical topics. The collections provide a comprehensive examination of youth-related challenges and justice systems across mainland China, Hong...
Fairness and Crime: A Theory
1st Edition
By Mark S. Davis
July 30, 2025
Criminology, the discipline that informs our understanding of crime and justice, is facing an identity crisis. Long dominated by sociology’s view of crime and its causes, criminology has recently witnessed the rise of a new cadre of academics who feel free to explore other explanations. Fairness ...
Learning from Victims’ Family Narratives: The Impact of Offline and Online Harm in Cases of Intimate Partner Homicide
1st Edition
By Morag C. Kennedy
July 08, 2025
Offering a new perspective on intimate partner abuse and homicide, this book recognises the families of victims as legitimate agents of knowledge in terms of the harm experienced by their family members, and considers how this harm is extended to the families themselves. Examining harm from both an...
Radicalisation: A Conceptual Inquiry
1st Edition
By Gilbert McLaughlin
May 06, 2025
Radicalisation is a conceptual investigation within Western liberal democratic societies that follows an analytical framework linking expertise theory to discourse analysis of publications from the academic, governmental, and non-governmental spheres, as well as a dozen interviews with experts in ...
Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria M. Nagy, Georgina Rychner
May 06, 2025
Women’s Criminalisation and Offending in Australia and New Zealand offers new research and analysis of women’s offending and criminalisation in Australia and New Zealand from British settlement through to the late twentieth/early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to women as offenders as ...