This is a major contribution by two leading scholars in the field and will be of interest to anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of one the most significant and pressing issues of our times.

Public Criminology? offers an original and provocative account of the condition of, and prospects for, criminology which will be of interest not only to those who work in the fields of crime, security and punishment, but to anyone ...

In this major new work on the relationship between English policing and culture, Ian Loader and Aogan Mulcahy reassess and revise this received sociological and popular wisdom on the fate that has befallen the English police.

This volume brings together leading criminologists and sociologists from across the world in a much needed conversation about how to re-calibrate reason and emotion in crime and justice today.

This is a book which will give all students of crime a rare and fascinating insight into how issues at the heart of contemporary law and order politics both nationally and internationally actually play out on the ground.

The return of emotions to debates about crime and criminal justice has been a striking development of recent decades across many jurisdictions.

I then explore three 'moments' of contention during which the legitimacy of liberal elitism was called into question over the last several decades-the 'nothing works' assault on rehabilitation in the 1970s, the rise of 'law and order' ...

This book makes one of the first attempts to examine security from both perspectives, bringing together, and into much needed conversation, the fields of criminol