The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime.
This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature.
The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.
IntroductionPart 1: 'Conventional' Property Crime Introduction 1. Domestic Burglary 2. Vehicle Crime 3. Shoplifting 4. Understanding and Tackling Stolen Goods Markets Part 2: Fraud and Fakes Introduction 5. Income Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud 6. Theft and Fraud by Employees 7. Fakes 8. Scams 9. Credit Fraud 10. Identity Theft and Fraud 11. Cybercrime Part 3: Violent Crime Introduction 12. Homicide 13. Domestic Violence 14. Street Robbery 15. Stealing Commercial Cash: From Safecracking to Armed Robbery 16. Youth Gang Crime 17. Violence in the Night-time Economy 18. Hate Crime 19. Stalking and Harassment 20. Arson 21. Blackmail, Kidnapping and Threats to Kill 22. Elder Abuse 23. School Bullying: Risk Factors, Theories and Interventions 24. Institutional Abuse and Children's Homes 25. Animal AbusePart 4: Sex-Related Crime Introduction 26. Sexual Offences Against Adults 27. Sexual Offences Against Children 28. Sex Work Part 5: Drug-Related Crime Introduction 29. Drug- and Alcohol-related Crime 30. Drug Supply and Possession 31. Drug TraffickingPart 6: Organised and Business Crime Introduction 32. Corporate Financial Crimes 33. Middle Range Business Crime: Rogue and Respectable Businesses, Family Firms and Entrepreneurs 34. Human Trafficking 35. Money Laundering 36. ExtortionPart 7: State, Political and War Crimes Introduction 37. State Crime 38. Genocide and 'Ethnic Cleansing' 39. Torture 40. Crimes of the Global State 41. Political Protest and Crime 42. Terrorism Part 8: Harms, Health and Safety Introduction, 43. Eco-crime and Air Pollution 44. Corporate Violence and Harm 45. Driving Offences
