ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders, jurisdictions, and cultures, and facilitates the development of an overarching framework that is truly international.

The book is divided into three parts, in which three distinct yet overlapping types of crime are analyzed: international crime, transnational crime, and national crime. Each of these perspectives is then articulated through a number of chapters which cover theory and methods, international and transnational crime analyses, and case studies of criminology and criminal justice in relevant nations. In addition, questions placed at the end of each chapter encourage greater reflection on the issues raised, and will encourage young scholars to move the field of inquiry forward.

This handbook is an excellent reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students with particular interests in research methods, international criminology, and making comparisons across countries.

part |97 pages

Methods and theories

chapter |12 pages

Doing criminology in the “semi-periphery” and the “periphery”

In search of a post-colonial criminology

chapter |13 pages

International criminology

Qualitative research on polluted actors

chapter |15 pages

Quantitative criminology

Crime and justice statistics across nations

chapter |13 pages

A question of good governance?

Developments in crime prevention internationally

chapter |10 pages

Transferring Western theory

A comparative and culture-sensitive perspective of crime research in China

chapter |8 pages

Research methods overview

The missing pieces of rigorous research

part |190 pages

Special topics

chapter |15 pages

Conceptualizing and studying organized crime in a global context

Possible? indispensable? superfluous?

chapter |11 pages

Hong Kong triads

chapter |11 pages

Ants moving houses

Cross-border drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle 1

part |234 pages

Criminology and criminal justice in context

chapter |11 pages

Australia

The state of criminology

chapter |11 pages

Brazil

The state of criminology

chapter |14 pages

Canada

The state of criminology

chapter |11 pages

Cambodia

A criminal justice system in transition

chapter |10 pages

Chile

A criminological approach

chapter |16 pages

Colombia

Crime trends, criminal justice, and criminology in a society in turmoil

chapter |14 pages

Estonia

Crime, criminal justice, and criminology in a changing socio-economic context

chapter |10 pages

Ghana

The state of criminology in a changing society

chapter |11 pages

Great Britain

Criminology and criminal justice

chapter |8 pages

Hong Kong

The state of criminology

chapter |8 pages

India

The state of criminology in a developing nation

chapter |11 pages

Italy

An overview of criminology

chapter |12 pages

South Korea

Current trends and issues in crime and criminal justice

chapter |11 pages

Mexico

The state of criminology and public safety

chapter |12 pages

Nigeria

Social structure, criminal justice and criminology

chapter |11 pages

The Netherlands

The state of criminology

chapter |11 pages

People's Republic of China

The state of criminology

chapter |12 pages

Russia

An overview of crime and criminology

chapter |11 pages

Sierra Leone

The quest for justice and social cohesion

chapter |11 pages

Turkey

The state of criminology