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Abusing Power: the Canadian Experience Edited by Susan C. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, and Robert Menzies
Adolescent Crime: Individual Differences and Lifestyles By Per-Olof H. Wikstrom and David A. Butterworth
Advancing Critical Criminology Theory and Application Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Barbara Perry
Ageing, Crime and Society Edited by Azrini Wahidin and Maureen Cain
ALTERNATIVES TO PRISON Options for an Insecure Society Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Sue Rex and Gwen Robinson
American Citizens, British Slaves Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850 By Cassandra Pybus & Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Arctic Justice -On Trial For Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 By Shlagh D Grant
Arresting Images Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera By Aaron Doyle

Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice By Richard Quinney
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchangeand Poor Black Women Edited by R. Dennis Shelby, PhD
Beyond The Tariff Human Rights and the Release of Life sentence Prisoners By Nicola Padfield
Blood, Power, and Bedlam: Violations of International Criminal Law in Post-Colonial Africa By Christopher W. Mullins and Dawn L. Rothe
Bow Street Beak By Ronald Bartle
Brute Force: Animal Police and the Challenge of Cruelty By Arnold Arluke
Buried from the World Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 19289-1831 The Memorandum Books of the Rev. Jared Curtis Edited by Philip F. Gura
The Business of Captivity Elmira and Its Civil War Prison By Michael P. Gray

Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime Edited by Alexander Tabarrok, Foreward by Charles H. Logan
CITY LIMITS: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experiencee Keith J. Hayward
Clues From Killers: Serial Murder and Crime Scene Messages By Dirk C. Gibson
Colonial Justice Justice, Morality, and Crime In the Niagara District, 1791-1849 By David Murray
Community Policing: National and International Models and Approaches By Mike Brogden and Preeti Nijhar
Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise By Darrell J. Steffensmeier and Jeffery T. Ulmer
Contacts, Opportunities and Criminal Enterprise By Carlo Morselli
Contemporary Issues in Canadian Policing Edited by Stephen E. Nancoo
The Conventional Man - The Diaries of Ontario Chief Justice Robert A. Harrison 1856-18780 Edited by Peter Olivery
Corrections, Mental Health, and Social Policy: An International Perspective Edited by Robert K. Ax and Thomas J. Fagan
Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime Edited by Brandon C. Welsh, David P. Farrington, and Lawrence W. Sherman
Creating Criminals: Prisons and People in a Market Society By Vivien Stern
Crime and Justice - 1750-1950 By Barry Godfrey and Paul Lawrence
Crime and Punishment in Western Countries, 1980-1999 Crime and justice: A review of research (Volume 33) Edited by Michael Tonry and David P. Farrington
Crime Online Edited by Yvonne Jewkes
Crime, Punishment and Justice By Ulla Bondeson (review By Denis Szabo)
Crime Punishment and Justice: Selected Articles from a Scholarly Career By Ulla V. Bondeson (review By Gordon A. Crews)
Crime Scene to Court the Essentials of Forensic Science (2nd Edition) Edited by White, P.C.
Crimes, Victims and Justice: Essays on Principles and Practice Edited by Hendrik Kaptein and Marijke Malsch
The Crime That Pays: Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Canada By Frederick J. Desroches
(New) Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism By Steve Hall, Simon Winlow and Craig Ancrum
Criminal Justice Masterworks: A History of Ideas about Crime, Law, Police, and Corrections By Robert Panzarella and Daniel Vona
Criminal Investigation – In search of the truth Edited by Bill Van Allen
Criminalising Social Policy: Anti-social behaviour in a de-civilised society By John J Rodger
Criminal Profiling: International Theory, Research, and Practice Edited by Richard N. Kocsis
Criminal Profiling : Principles and Practice By Richard N. Kocsis
Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime By Shaun L. Gabbidon
Criminology Edited by Chris Hale, Keith Hayward, Azrini Wahidin and Emma Wincup
Criminology in Canada: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies (Third Edition) By Larry J. Siegel and Chris McCormick
Cultural Criminology Unleashed Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison, Mike Presdee

Darfur and the Crime of Genocide By John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond
Dealing with Disaffection: Young People, Mentoring and Social Inclusion By Tim Newburn and Michael Shiner (with Tara Young)
Dealing with Drugs in Europe. An Investigation of European Drug Control Experiences: France, the Netherlands and Sweden By Tim Boekhut van Solinge
DEFENDANT RIGHTS: A Reference Handbook By Hamid R. Kusha
Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuse By Penney Lewis
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice: An International Bibliography Edited by Clayton A. Hartjen and S. Priyadarsini
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Systems in the Non-Western World Edited by Paul C. Friday and Xin Ren
Designing out Crime from Products and Systems Edited by Ronald V. Clarke and Graeme R. Newman
Desisting from Crime: Continuity and Change in Long-Term Crime Patterns of Serious Chronic Offenders By Mike E. Ezell and Lawrence E. Cohen
Discourses of Denial Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence By Yasmin Jiwani
Discourses of Denial Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence By Yasmin Jiwani
(Response to Ann Lucas’ Review)
Discovering Qualitative Methods: Field Research, Interviews, and Analysis Carol A.B. Warren and Tracy X. Karner
Doing Prison Work: The Public and Private Lives of Prison Officers By Elaine Crawley
Drugs and Crime: A Study of Incarcerated Female Offenders Research and Public Policy Series No. 63 By Holly Johnson
Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition By Jeffrey A. Miron

Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying By Hedieh Nasheri
Effective Practice in Youth Justice By Martin Stephenson, Henri Giller, and Sally Brown
The Effects of Imprisonment Edited by Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna
Ethical and Social Perspectives on Situational Crime Prevention Edited by Andrew von Hirsch, David Garland and Alison Wakefield
Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Criminology Edited by Alana Barton, Karen Corteen, Davis Scott and David Whyte
Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder Edited by James Alan Fox and Jack Levin

Fair Cop: Learning the Art of Policing By Janet B.L. Chan with Chris Devery and Sally Doran
A Fair Hearing? Ethnic minorities in the criminal courts By Stephen Shute, Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal
Families, Delinquency, and Crime: Linking Society’s Most Basic Institution to Antisocial Behavior By Ronald L. Simons, Leslie Gordon Simons and Lora Ebert Wallace
Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders by Rachel Condry
Federal Narcotics Laws and the War on Drugs: Money Down a Rat Hole By Thomas C. Rowe
Feminist Legal Theory An Anti-Essentialist Reader Edited by Nancy E. Dowd and Michelle S. Jacobs
Football Hooliganism By Steve Frosdick and Peter Marsh
Forensic Identification and Criminal Justice: Forensic Science, Justice and Risk By Carole McCartney
The Forensic Laboratory Handbook: Procedures and Practice Edited by Ashraf Mozayani and Carla Noziglia
The Forensic Psychologist's Casebook: Psychological Profiling and Criminal Investigation Edited by Laurence Alison
Fraud By Alan Doig
From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall By Marian Filar and Charles Patterson
Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 By Tony Roberts

Gangs Edited by Jacqueline Schneider and Nick Tilley
(New) Gangs and Girls: Understanding Juvenile Prostitution By Michel Dorais and Patrice Corriveau
Gangs in Court By Lewis Yablonsky
The Genetic Imaginary: DNA in the Canadian Criminal Justice System By Neil Gerlach
Genetic Policing: the Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations By Robin Williams and Paul Johnson
Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law Edited by Don Chalmers
Gewalt gegen Männer: Personale Gewaltwiderfahrnisse von Männern in Deutschland Edited by Ludger Jungnitz, Hans-Joachim Lenz, Ralf Puchert, Henry Puhe and Willi Walter
Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story By Les Brown and Robert Jeffrey
Global Justice: The Politics of War Crimes Trial By Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu
Global Surveillance and Policing: Borders, Security, Identity Elia Zureik and Mark B. Salter (eds)
Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice By George Pavlich
The Great American Decline By Franklin E. Zimring

Handbook of Criminal Investigation Edited by Tim Newburn, Tom Williamson, and Alan Wright
Handbook of Probation Edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe and Rod Morgan
Handbook on Prisons Edited by Yvonne Jewkes
Hard Lessons - Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity Edited by Richard Hil and Gordon Tait
Holding Your Square: Masculinities, Streetlife and Violence By Christopher W. Mullins
How Drug Dealers Settle Disputes: Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes By Angela P. Taylor
Hybrids By Robert J. Sawyer
Hypercrime: The New Geometry of Harm By Michael McGuire

Illicit and Illegal: Sex, Regulation and Social Control By Joanna Phoenix and Sarah Oerton
Inside: Life Behind Bars in America By Michael G. Santos
Institutionalizing Restorative Justice Edited by Ivo Aertsen, TomDaems and Luc Robert
Intelligence-Led Policing By Jerry Ratcliffe
(New) In the Shadow of Prison: Families, Imprisonment and Criminal Justice By Helen Codd
Introduction to Police Work Edited by Colin Rogers and Rhobert Lewis
Introductory Criminal Analysis: Crime Prevention and Intervention Strategies By Thomas E. Baker
Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety By Murray Lee
Investigative Interviewing Rights, Research, and Regulation Edited by Tom Williamson

Japan as a Low-Crime Nation By Dag Leonardsen
Judicial Decision Making in Child Sexual Abuse Cases By Margaret M. Wright
Justice Defiled Perverts, Potheads, Serial Killers & Lawyer By Alan N. Young
Justice for Young Offenders: Their Needs, Our Responses By Mary E. Vandergoot
Justifiable Force: The Practical Guide to the Law of Self Defence By Robert Manning
Juvenile Justice in the Making By David S. Tanenhaus, Foreward By Bernardine Dohrn
Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems Edited by Eric L. Jensen and Jorgen Jepsen

Kentucky Justice, Southern Honour, and American Manhood Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid By James C. Klotter

Law and Mental Health: A Case-Based Approach By Robert G. Meyer and Christopher M. Weaver
Legislating Indian Country: Significant Milestones in Transforming Tribalism By Laurence Armand French
Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr Albert Skarvan's Story Translated from the Slovak and Edited by Peter Brock
Long Dark Road - Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas Ricardo C. Ainslie

(New) Madness and Crime By Philip Bean
Mafia Brotherhoods. Organized Crime, Italian Style By Leitizia Paoli
Major Criminological Theories: Concepts and Measures By Liqun Cao
A Man Without Loyalties a Penologist’s Afterthoughts By Nigel Walker
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration By Devah Pager
(New) Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology By Charles Patrick Ewing and Joseph T. McCann
Multi-problem Violent Youth: A Foundation for Comparative Research on Needs, Interventions and Outcomes Edited by Raymond R. Carrado, Ronald Roesch, Stephen D. Hart, and Jozef K. Gierowski
Murder: Social and Historical Approaches to Understanding Murder and Murderers By Shani D’Cruze, Sandra Walklate, and Samantha Pegg

(New) Narratives of Neglect: Community, regeneration and the governance of security By Jacqui Karn
Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System Edited by Jeffrey I. Ross and Larry Gould
Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver By Laura Huey (review By Thomas D. Stucky)
Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver By Laura Huey (review By Kevin Walby)
New Directions in Restorative Justice: Issues, Practice, Evaluation Edited by Elizabeth Elliott and Robert Gordon
The New Punitiveness: Trends, Theories, Perspectives Edited by John Pratt, David Brown, Mark Brown, Simon Hallsworth and Wayne Morrison
Northern Connection: Inside Canada’s Deadliest Mafia Family By Peter Edwards
(New) Northern Soul: Music, Drugs and Subcultural Identity by Andrew Wilson

Offending Behaviour: Moral Reasoning, Criminal Conduct and the Rehabilitation of Offenders By Emma J. Palmer
Offending Identities: Sex Offenders’ Perspectives on Their Treatment and Management Edited by Kirsty Hudson
Organised Crime By Alan Wright
Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland 1972-1998 By Mary Corcoran (review By Jennifer M. Kilty)
Out of Order: The Political Imprisonment of Women in Northern Ireland 1972-1998 By Mary Corcoran (review By Gilles Renaud)
Out of Sight: Crime, youth and exclusion in modern Britain By Robert McAuley
Out there/In here: Masculinity, violence, and prisoning By Elizabeth Comack

Penal Populism By John Pratt
Perspectives on Identity Theft Edited by Megan M. McNally and Graeme R. Newman
The “Place” of Justice Edited by The Law Commission of Canada
Police & Government Relations: Who’s Calling the Shots? Edited by Margaret E. Beare and Tonita Murray
Policing: An introduction to concepts and practices By Alan Wright
Policing Illegal Drug Markets: Geographic Approaches to Crime Reduction By George F. Rengert, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, and Sanjoy Chakravorty
Policing: Key Readings Edited by Tim Newburn
Policing Northern Ireland: Conflict, Legitimacy and Reform By Aogán Mulcahy
Policing Public Disorder: Theory and Practice by David P. Waddington
Practical Guide to Evidence 3rd Edition Christopher Allen
Primer in Radical Criminology Critical Perspectives on Crime, Power and Identity (4th Ed.) By Michael Lynch and Raymond Michalowski
Prison Readings: A Critical Introduction to Prisons and Imprisonment Edited by Yvonne Jewkes and Helen Johnston
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America Edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher
Prison Voices Edited by Lee Weinstein and Richard Jaccone
Profiling in Policy and Practice Edited by David Canter and Laurence Alison
Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society Edited by Bruce A. Arrigo
Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective By Terance D. Miethe and Hong Lu
Punishment, Places and Perpetrators Developments in criminology and criminal justice research Edited by Gerben Bruinsma, Henk Elffers, and Jan de Keijser
Putting Theory to Work: Implementing Situational Prevention and Problem-Oriented Policing Edited by Johannes Knutsson and Ronald V. Clarke

Questioning Crime and Criminology Edited by Moira Peelo and Keith Soothill

Race, Culture, Psychology & Law Edited by Kimberly Holt Barrett and William H. George
Race and Probation Edited by Sam Lewis, Peter Raynor, David Smith and Ali Wardak
Reclaiming the Streets: Surveillance, social control and the city By Roy Coleman
Reducing Reoffending: Social Work and Community Justice in Scotland By Fergus McNeill and Bill Whyte
Reflections in Prison Voices from the South African Liberation Struggle Edited by Mac Maharaj
Refocusing Crime Prevention: Collective Action and the Quest for Community By Stephen Schneider
Re-Imagining Policing in Canada Edited by Dennis Cooley
Reluctant gangsters: The changing face of youth crime By John Pitts
Researching Gender Violence: Feminist Methodology in Action Edited by Tina Skinner, Marianne Hester and Ellen Malos
Restorative Justice By Ruth Ann Strickland
Restorative Justice & Criminal Justice Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics Edited by Andrew von Hirsh, Julian Roberts, Anthony E. Bottoms and Kent Roach and Mara Schiff (review By Isabelle Bartkowiak)
Restorative Justice & Criminal Justice Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms Studies in Penal Theory and Penal Ethics Edited by Andrew von Hirsh, Julian Roberts, Anthony E. Bottoms and Kent Roach and Mara Schiff (review By Gilles Renaud)
Restorative Justice and Practices in New Zealand: Towards a Restorative Society Edited by Gabrielle Maxwell and James H. Lui
Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of our Everyday Lives By Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft Monsey (review By Andrew Woolfrod)
Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of our Everyday Lives By Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft Monsey (review By Brian A. Lawton)
Restorative Justice: How it Works By Marian Liebmann
Rethinking Domestic Violence By Donald G. Dutton
Rethinking Law, Society and Governance: Foucault's Bequest By Pavlich, George and Gary Wickham (eds.)
A Right to Read Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900-1965 By Patterson Toby Graham.
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method By Augustine Brannigan
Rougher Justice: Anti-Social Behaviour and Young People By Peter Squires and Dawn E. Stephen
The Rule of the Admirals Law, Custom and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1689-1832 Jerry Bannister

Schools and the Problem of Crime Edited by Stephen Boxford
Secure and Tranquil Travel: Preventing Crime and Disorder on Public Transport Edited by Martha J. Smith and Derek B. Cornish
Sentencing the Multiple Offender: Judicial Practice and Legal Principle By Austin Lovegrove
Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes Edited by Richard N. Kocsis
Serial survivors: Women’s narratives of surviving rape By Jan Jordan
Sex Crimes Investigation: Catching and Prosecuting the Perpetrators By Robert L. Snow
The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings By Austin Sarat
Social Problems By Joel Best
The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison By Gresham Sykes
Statistical Concepts for Criminal Justice and Criminology By Frank P. Williams III
Strangers in our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario By Elise Chenier
Street Crime By Simon Hallsworth
Street Gangs, Migration and Ethnicity Edited by Frank van Gemert, Dana Peterson and Inger-Lise Lien
Student Handbook of Criminal Justice and Criminology Edited by John Muncie and David Wilson
Street Gang Patterns and Policies By Malcolm Klein and Cheryl L. Maxson
A Suitable Amount of Crime By Nils Christie
Surveillance, Crime and Social Control Edited by Clive Norris and Dean Wilson

Theorizing Surveillance The Panopticon and beyond Edited by David Lyon
Thinking About Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture By Michael Tonry
Tournament of Appeals Granting Judicial Review in Canada By Roy B. Flemming
Treating Sex Offenders: An Introduction to Sex Offender Treatment Programmes By Sarah Brown
The Trial of “Indian Joe” Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West By Clare V. McKanna Jr.

Uncertain Justice, Canadian Women and Capital Punishment 1754 - 1953 By F. Murray Greenwood and Beverley Boissery
Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong Edited by Wing H. Chui and T. Wing Lo
Understanding Drugs, Alcohol and Crime By Trevor Bennett and Kathy Holloway
Understanding Political Violence: A Criminological Analysis By Vincenzo Ruggiero (review by Temitope B. Oriola)
Understanding Political Violence: A Criminological Analysis By Vincenzo Ruggiero (review by Gilles Renaud)
Understanding Prisons: Key Issues in Policy and Practice By Andrew Coyle
Understanding Social Science Research Applications in Criminology and Criminal Justice Edited by Geoffrey P. Albert and John M. MacDonald
Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, perspectives and issues By Gus Martin
Understanding Victims and Restorative Justice By James Dignan (review by Elizabeth Elliott)
Understanding Victims and Restorative Justice By James Dignan (review by Gilles Renaud)
Understanding Youth and Crime: Listening to Youth? By Shelia Brown
Understanding Youth Justice in Canada Edited by Kathryn Campbell
Unfinished Constitutional Business? Rethinking Indigenous Self-determination Edited by Barbara A Hocking
Unwilling Mothers Unwanted Babies: Infanticide in Canada By Kirsten Johnson Kramar

(New) Violent and Sexual Offenders: Assessment, Treatment and Management Edited by J. Ireland, C. Ireland, and P. Birch
The Virtual Prison Community Custody and the Evolution of Imprisonment By Julian V. Roberts

Wages of Crime : Black Markets, Illegal Finance, and the Underworld Economy (Revised Edition) By R.T. Naylor
What Matters in Probation? Edited by George Mair
What Works in Probation and Youth Justice Developing Evidence-Based Practice Edited by Ros Burnett and Colin Roberts
When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry By Joan Petersilia
Who to Release? Parole, Fairness and Criminal Justice Edited by Nicola Padfield
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenges of Conflict and Change By Jane Dickson-Gilmore and Carol LaPrairie
With Malice Aforethought a Study of the Crime and Punishment for Homicide By Louis Blom-Cooper Q.C. and Terence Morris
Women and the Criminal Justice System: A Canadian Perspective Edited by Jane Barker
Women's Experiences of Male Violence: Findings from the Australian Component of the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS) Research and Public Policy Series No. 56 By Jenny Mouzos and Toni Makkai
(New) Writing for Their Lives: Death Row USA Edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts

X^th International Symposium on Victimology (Symposium Proceedings) Edited by Arlène Gaudreault and Irwin Waller

Young Men in Prison: Surviving and Adapting to Life Inside By Joel Harvey
Youth Offending in Transition: The Search for Social Recognition By Monica Barry

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