More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban
neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and …

This book provides a short, comprehensive and accessible introduction to Ultra-Realism: a
unique and radical school of criminological thought that has been developed by the authors …

These approved explanations will be examined as the book's argument unfolds. It will also
investigate why, in this broad and enduring act of equivocation, various schools of …

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for
students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level …

1 'Racial violence in Greater Manchester'(with David Smith and Liz Wastell, Lancaster
University) funded under the ESRC's Violence Research Programme, 1998–2000. 2 See, for …

Research has shown little support for the enduring proposition that increases in immigration
are associated with increases in crime. Although classical criminological and neoclassical …

This article explains why an understanding of deviant leisure is significant for criminology.
Through reorienting our understanding of 'deviance'from a contravention of norms and …

Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas,
but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and …

In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis C. Pratt uses an evidence-based approach to
explore the consequences of what he terms America's" addiction to incarceration." …

As the 20-year mark since the publication of an article by Kenneth C. Land, Patricia L.
McCall, and Lawrence Cohen,“Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any …