Books written by John Muncie

Youth and Crime

The Second Edition of this best-selling text provides a fully revised and up-to-date critical analysis of a wide range of issues surrounding young people, disorder and crime.
The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology

In order to fall within the dangerous and severe personality disorder programme, individuals will need to meet three ... have a history of violent and sexual offending and are also deemed to be of high risk to themselves or the public.
The Problem of Crime

Praise of the First Edition `By providing accessible and readable introductions to often neglected aspects of crime, the volume is a welcome change from texts focusing on the more...
The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology

widened out to include white collar crime and domestic violence ( Mooney , 2000 ) . In Britain such work has had considerable impact on the re - orientation of Labour Party policies towards a heightened concern with crime control issues ...
Crime: Local and Global

Many, if not most, food poisoning cases are likely to be a direct result of criminal breaches of food hygiene and food safety legislation. Nonetheless, prosecutions of any food regulation breaches, including those that lead to death, ...
Comparative Youth Justice

This book is designed as a companion volume to Youth Crime and Justice, edited by Barry Goldson and John Muncie, published simultaneously by SAGE Publications. ′This is a brilliant set of edited volumes that will be an indispensable and ...
Comparative Youth Justice

This book is designed as a companion volume to Youth Crime and Justice, edited by Barry Goldson and John Muncie, published simultaneously by SAGE Publications. ′This is a brilliant set of edited volumes that will be an indispensable and ...
The Problem of Crime

Praise of the First Edition `By providing accessible and readable introductions to often neglected aspects of crime, the volume is a welcome change from texts focusing on the more conventionally constructed problems of juvenile crime, theft ...
Comparative Youth Justice

Ministry of Justice ( 2000 ) Annual Crime Statistics , Tokyo : Japanese goverment publication . ... ( 1996 ) Kamikaze Biker . ... Yokoyama , M. ( 1997 ) ' Juvenile justice : an overview of Japan ' , in J. Winterdyk ( ed . ) ...
Youth Crime and Justice

Pitts , J. ( 2001 ) The New Politics of Youth Crime : Discipline or Solidarity ? Basingstoke : Palgrave . ... ( SEU ) Social Exclusion Unit ( 1998 ) Truancy and Social Exclusion . ... Youth , the ' Underclass ' and Social Exclusion .
Criminological Perspectives: Essential Readings

Controlology: governance. and. surveillance. INTRODUCTION. The institutions, authorities and procedures which provide any society with its mechanism for controlling and preventing crime cannot merely be taken at face value as methods of ...
Criminological Perspectives: Essential Readings

Criminological Perspectives will prove an indispensible resource, whether you're studying criminology, criminal justice studies, socio-legal studies, penology, security studies, surveillance studies, or sociology.
Youth Crime and Justice

Building upon the success of the first edition, this second - and substantially revised - edition of Youth Crime and Justice comprises a range of cutting-edge contributions from leading national and international researchers.
Student Handbook of Criminal Justice and Criminology

The book discusses crime and criminology in relation to the media, race, gender, and political point-of-view.
Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions

This is a course Reader for The Open University course D863 Community Safety, Crime Prevention and Social Control
Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions

This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe.
Comparative Youth Justice: Critical Issues

Comparative Youth Justice is the first book to critically reflect on contemporary juvenile justice reform in England and Wales and across various other western jurisdictions (the US, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, ...
Youth and Crime: A Critical Introduction

Each chapter focuses on a substantive topic such as: political discourses; social histories; the extent and causes of offending; youth cultures; social policy and the youth justice system whilst emphasizing the importance of historical, ...
Youth Justice: Critical Readings

Youth Justice: Critical Readings brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies. This will be an essential sourcebook for...
Controlling Crime

This innovative textbook adopts a series of vantage points to assess the historical emergence, function and purpose of modern criminal justice systems. The areas covered include: origins of the police;...