International handbook of criminology

Crime science / Ken Pease -- Born for evil? : biological theories of crime in historical perspective / Neil Davie -- Life course criminology / Arjan Blokland and Paul Nieuwbeerta -- Making sense of criminal justice / David Nelsen -- The politics of numbers : crime statistics as a source of knowledge and a tool of governance / Heidi Mork Lomell -- The subculture concept : a geneology / Albert Bell -- Anthropologies of domestic violence : studying crime in situ / Madelaine Adelman -- Methodological issues in the comparison of police recorded-crime rates / Marcelo Aebi -- Transnational environmental harm and eco-global criminology / Rob White -- Perpetrators and victims of sex crimes / Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs -- Financial crimes in comparative context / Michael Levi -- Studying criminality and criminal offenders in the early twentieth-century Philippines / Filomin Gutierrez -- Affluence, disadvantage, and fear of crime / Murray Lee -- Closed-circuit television : a review of its development and its implications for privacy / Clive Norris -- Crime and social policy / Chris Grover -- Truth, reality, justice, and the crime genre : implications for criminological inquiry and pedagogy / Gray Cavender and Nancy Jurik -- The police response to crime / Megan O'Neill -- The European experience of crime prevention / Rosella Selmini -- Class, inequality, and the etiology of crime / Jukka Savolainen -- Youth gangs in a global context / Juanjo Medina Ariza -- Victim participation in the criminal justice process : normative dilemmas and practical responses / Edna Erez and Julian V. Roberts -- Spatial analysis of street crimes / Circe M.G. Monteiro -- Understanding of repeat victimization : a longitudinal study / Anthony E. Bottoms and Andrew Costello.

Exploring topics such as conceptions of victimhood, secondary and hidden victimization, and social services for victims along with more recent issues, this handbook deals with the themes such as restorative justice, the use of government-sponsored crime victimization surveys, compensation and restitution schemes, and victims' rights legislation