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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

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Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides Part 2

Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides: Part 2

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Edited By Lin Huff-Corzine, Kayla Toohy
July 30, 2026

Translated by Kayla Toohy and Boniface Noyongoyo This translation of Pauline Tarnowsky’s Les Femmes Homicides presents an important historical work in English for the first time. Tarnowsky, a neuropathologist and one of the first women permitted to attend medical school in Russia, has often been ...

Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides Two Part Set

Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides: Two Part Set

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Lin Huff-Corzine, Kayla Toohy
July 10, 2026

This translation of Pauline Tarnowsky’s Les Femmes Homicides presents an important historical work in English for the first time. Tarnowsky, a neuropathologist and one of the first women permitted to attend medical school in Russia, has often been referred to as the “first female criminologist.” In...

Bouncer Culture and the Nighttime Economy The Last Cursed Half Hour

Bouncer Culture and the Nighttime Economy: The Last Cursed Half Hour

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By Pietro Saitta
June 02, 2026

This book offers a sharp ethnographic immersion into the high-stakes world of nightclub security in Southern Italy. Following months of firsthand fieldwork, it uncovers how authority is truly negotiated beyond the velvet rope. Rather than focusing on physical intimidation, the narrative reveals how...

Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space International Perspectives

Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space: International Perspectives

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Edited By Yarin Eski, Jack Lampkin
May 21, 2026

Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised. This book is the first edited collection of chapters focused on how to ...

Crime, Violence and Masculinities Research Paths and Understanding

Crime, Violence and Masculinities: Research Paths and Understanding

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By Stephen Tomsen
May 21, 2026

Providing a detailed survey of the author’s work over three decades, this book chronicles Tomsen’s studies of interpersonal violence and masculinities, which initiated new approaches and topic areas and informed related theorising. These novel approaches in social science research sparked new ...

Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides Part I

Pauline Tarnowsky's Les Femmes Homicides: Part I

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Lin Huff-Corzine, Kayla Toohy
May 21, 2026

Translated by Kayla Toohy and Boniface Noyongoyo This translation of Les Femmes Homicides, by Praskov’ia Tarnovskaia, or Pauline Tarnowsky as her name has been Westernized, presents an important historical work in English for the first time. Tarnowsky, a neuropathologist and one of the first women ...

Youth Involvement in Street Gangs in California’s Central Valley

Youth Involvement in Street Gangs in California’s Central Valley

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By Huan Gao
May 21, 2026

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity. Incorporating information from interviews with 96 active youth gang members and associates in three of the rural counties of California’s ...

Disability Hate Crime Perspectives for Change

Disability Hate Crime: Perspectives for Change

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Edited By Leah Burch, David Wilkin
January 30, 2026

Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the victimology of disability hate crime (DHC). For the first time, this book brings together recent academic thought, the stance of those working for the United Nations to further the ...

Victimisation in the Digital Age An Online/Offline Continuum Approach

Victimisation in the Digital Age: An Online/Offline Continuum Approach

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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

Pathways into and out of Youth Cybercrime: Research Findings and Reflections for Academics, Professionals and Policymakers

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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

Neoliberalism and Punishment

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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

Contemporary Economic Crime: Issues and Challenges

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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 ...

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