Criminology - Research Guide: Sources for Lit Reviews

A large peer-reviewed encyclopedia, adding two to five new articles or revised articles each month.

A mammoth 10-volume work. Although in a difficult-to-use interface, this provides international perspective on corrections and criminal justice supervision in the community; courts, sentencing and the judicial system; crimes, criminals and victims; crime places and situations; explanations for criminal behaviour; forensic science; data, methods and statistics; police and law enforcement; psychology of law; and social interventions and prevention.

5-volume work with over 500 entries spanning 15 substantive areas within criminology and criminal justice, including criminal law, juvenile justice, education and professionalism, history of crime, and victimization.

Chapters detail relevant theory, recent research, policy developments, and current debates. Extensive references aid further research. Extensively revised, the sixth edition has been expanded to include all the major topics and significant new issues such as zemiology; green criminology; domestic violence; prostitution and sex work; penal populism; and the significance of globalization for criminology. Earlier editions (starting in 1994) are also available. Also see focused volumes in Oxford Handbooks Online : Criminology & Criminal Justice.

Bibliographic essays with annotations for individual entries, covering corrections, courts & sentencing, crime prevention, criminal behavior, criminologists and criminological theories, environmental criminology, international & comparative criminology, juvenile delinquency & justice, organizational & white-collar crime, policing, public responses to crime, research methods & measurement, victimology, and race, gender, and ethnicity & crime.

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See also additional titles in the recently-started handbooks series: Wiley handbooks in criminology and criminal justice.

Focuses on the application of 'methods' to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research.

Covers formulating a research area, topic, and literature review; project planning and research design, methods, and management issues, including making contacts, gaining access, getting ethical approval, and timetabling; approaches to the analysis of narrative and numeric data (grounded theory, narrative, discourse, univariate, and bivariate analysis); and writing a project report.

This book considers the criminological, genetic and neuropsychological foundations of offending, as well as the legal and criminal justice applications of biosocial criminological theory. See additional works in the Routledge Handbooks: Criminology and Criminal Justice series.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on contemporary, historical, and global concerns about women, crime, and criminal justice.

Annually-updated reference work describing every NIJ-funded research project on violence against women since 1993.

Historical overview of institutions and systems around the world, as well as penal theories, prisoner culture and life, and notable prisoners and personnel.

Available online.
Looks at the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty.

Descriptions of crimes—and the justice systems that define and punish them—in more than 200 nations, principalities, and dependencies.

Perspectives on the laws, crimes, and criminal justice responses to transnational crime organized around four major themes: the problem of transnational crime; analysis of specific transnational crimes; approaches to its control; and regional geographical analyses.

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The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial behavior. Findings are provided in tabular form, enabling readers to determine at a glance the nature of each association. Within each table, results are listed by country, type of crime (or other forms of antisocial behavior), and whether each variable is positively, negatively, or insignificantly associated with offending behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down according to major categories, including violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, and recidivism.