Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
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...
Neoliberalism, State-Corporate Power and Regulatory Failure: The Harms of Prescription and Non-Prescription Medicine Regulation in Australia
1st Edition
By Rhiannon Bandiera
May 27, 2025
Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power. Neoliberalism shapes state and corporate power, regulation...
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 ...
Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn M. Campbell, Stephanie Wellman
May 05, 2025
Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. Both Indigenous and ...
Memetic War: Online Resistance in Ukraine
1st Edition
By Tine Munk
December 19, 2024
Memetic War analyses memetic warfare included in cyber war and aims to develop a framework for understanding the parameters included in utilising this concept in Ukraine as a part of civic resistance. In the Ukrainian war, an informal defence tactic has developed to uphold the information flow ...
On the Crisis of Boko Haram Terrorism: Causes and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Sogo Angel Olofinbiyi
November 28, 2024
The book provides a pentapartite theoretical analysis of socio-economic factors as the grand basis for the evolution of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. It describes the terrorism as a by-product of unresolved conflict emanating from unequal hegemonic power exchange with respect to the ...