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Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age (2022)
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Dover, R. (2022). Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age. London: Hurst Publishers

Intelligence agencies are reflections of the societies they serve. No surprise, then, that modern spies and the agencies they work for are fixated on the internet and electronic communications. These same officials also struggle with notions of priva... Read More about Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age.

Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948 (2022)
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Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Cox, D. J. (2022). Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948. Montreal; London: McGill-Queen's University Press

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those sentenced to penal servitude during this time. The research details the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1... Read More about Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948.

A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime (2021)
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O’Leary, N. (2021). A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1

Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have... Read More about A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime.

Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit (2019)
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Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21317-6

Offers an in-depth discussion of racial and religious hate crime in the UK and also beyond. Focusses on 1945 until present with some additional attention to the 1930s when anti-Semitism was especially prominent in the UK. Devotes particular attenti... Read More about Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK From 1945 to Brexit.

Building Bridges: Prisoners, Crime Victims and Restorative Justice (2019)
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Brennan, I., & Johnston, G. (2019). Building Bridges: Prisoners, Crime Victims and Restorative Justice. Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing

Across Europe, restorative justice has gained acceptance as a way of resolving disputes and mitigating the harm of crime in the community. Practitioners have also begun to coordinate restorative meetings in prisons in an effort to reduce the harms of... Read More about Building Bridges: Prisoners, Crime Victims and Restorative Justice.

Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse (2014)
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Clisby, S., & Holdsworth, J. (2014). Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse. Bristol, UK: Policy Press

© Policy Press 2014. Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women’s mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older... Read More about Gendering women: Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse.

Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject (2014)
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McCahill, M., & Finn, R. L. (2014). Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203069974

Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in... Read More about Surveillance, capital and resistance: theorizing the surveillance subject.

Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation (2006)
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Farrall, S., & Calverley, A. (2006). Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation. Maidenhead: Open University Press

Why do people stop offending? What are the processes they undergo in stopping? What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them? The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled followin... Read More about Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation.

Surveillance & Crime
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McCahill, M., & Coleman, R. Surveillance & Crime. The University of Hull

Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this bo... Read More about Surveillance & Crime.