Böcker av Sandra Walklate

The book examines the development of criminological theory over the past twenty five years, with detailed analysis of the relationship between criminological theorizing, criminal justice, social justice, and politics.

Seeks to unravel the issues associated with the crime of murder, providing an account of the subject for people coming to it for the first time. This book uses detailed case studies as a way of exemplifying and exploring more general questions of socio-cultural responses to murder and their explanation.

Written in the post 9/11 context this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross-cultural position on these questions.