The World of Crime: Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World / Edition 1 available in Paperback
The World of Crime: Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 141295679X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781412956796
- Pub. Date:
- 12/21/2007
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- ISBN-10:
- 141295679X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781412956796
- Pub. Date:
- 12/21/2007
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
The World of Crime: Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World / Edition 1
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Overview
Key Features
• Presents 13 chapters, which are organized in 4 main parts, that cover measurement challenges, common crimes, emerging global crimes, criminal justice, and international perspectives on crime and justice
• Contains statistical data taken from 2005 International Crime Victim Surveys
• Includes high quality figures such as scatter plots, graphs, and maps
• Features summary reviews and figure footnotes at the ends of each chapter
Intended Audience: The book is intended as a supplementary text for introduction to criminology, criminal justice, and comparative justice courses and is also appropriate for those professionally interested in security, criminal justice and development.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781412956796 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 12/21/2007 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 456 |
Product dimensions: | 7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x (d) |
About the Author
He has over the years published extensively on crime statistics, the prevention of crime and victim assistance in books and peer reviewed journals as well as in literary magazines and the popular press. One his latest books is a monography on international statistics on crime and criminal justice The World of Crime (Sage, 2007). He is a past president of the World Society of Victimology and member of the American and European Societies of Criminology. In 2012 he was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his continued leadership in the conduct of the International Crime Victims Survey over a period of 25 years.