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1. Age of Imprisonment

   By Elaine M. Crawley, Richard Sparks

   This book addresses the issue of the rapidly growing number of elderly men entering and serving time in prison. It draws upon extensive original research in four prisons holding concentrations of men aged sixty-five plus years. It examines, in fine-grained detail, the emotional,...

   To Be Published June 14th 2014 by Willan
2. Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment

   Edited by Stephen Farrall, Richard Sparks, Shadd Maruna, Mike Hough

   Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Public Criminology?

   By Ian Loader, Richard Sparks

   Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

   What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas...

   Published July 4th 2010 by Routledge
4. Criminal Justice and Political Cultures

   Edited by Tim Newburn, Richard Sparks

   As crime increasingly crosses national boundaries, and international co-operation takes firmer shape, so the development of ideas and policy on the control of crime has become an increasingly international and transnational affair. These developments call attention not just to the many points of...

   Published December 31st 2003 by Willan
5. Crime, Risk and Insecurity

   Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse

   By Tim Hope, Richard Sparks

   This book presents new empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary Western societies. The volume includes contributions from distinguished social researchers from...

   Published November 15th 2000 by Routledge
6. Crime and Social Change in Middle England

   Questions of Order in an English Town

   By Evi Girling, Ian Loader, Richard Sparks

   Crime and Social Change in Middle England offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces the reactions of citizens of one very ordinary town to events, conflicts and controversies around such topical...

   Published November 24th 1999 by Routledge