Series: New Horizons in Criminology

Digital tools such as smart devices, personal trackers, and social media have become part of daily life for many. Onlife Criminology is the study of crime and social harm produced by the blurring lines between digital engagement and our everyday lives that we may not even be aware of. From AI and security breaches to the proliferation of conspiracy theories,...

Music explores the deepest experiences of the human condition: love, violence, religion, hedonism, protest, and politics. A Criminology of Popular Music takes common themes in popular music and analyses them through a harms-based critical criminology of music, while staying focused on its aesthetic and sensory elements. It analyses the sexism, homophobia, and heteronormative bias of the music industry, considering its...

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice....

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice....

Leading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists. Industries such as energy, food, and tourism, and the systematic destruction of the environment through global capitalism are scrutinised for their contribution to global warming. Ideas...

This innovative book examines how videogames engage with crime and its control. It treats games as ideological representations, in which ideas about policing, justice, and criminality are formed and reproduced. Covering over fifty videogames and blending insights from criminology, game studies, affect, and social theory, A Criminology of Videogames explores how games reproduce injustice and inequality. Central to the book...