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The handbook is organized around themes that shape much thinking about and research on crime. This volume presents a series of essays that captures not the past of criminology, but where theoretical explanation is headed.
This database is for researchers, teachers, and students interested in all facets of the study of crime and justice issues, and provides access to high quality reference materials.
This handbook provides students, scholars, and criminologists with a global perspective on the theory and practice of criminology throughout the centuries and around the world.
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collections of information, and can include journal and newspaper articles, as well as audio visual, books, conference proceedings.
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Produced by the Australian Institute of Criminology, this database contains published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice. Coverage extends from 1968.
This journal provides comprehensive reviews of significant developments in the multidisciplinary field of criminology, defined as the study of both the nature of criminal behavior and societal reactions to crime.
This journal is devoted to the study of crime and deviant behavior. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes articles that advance the theoretical and research agenda of criminology and criminal justice.
This journal is a major interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal. It is concerned with conceptual studies on narratives and myths of crime, punishment, social deviance, criminal law, morality, justice, gender, race, social regulation and governance.
APO is an open access service providing access to policy and practice research. Excellent coverage of Australian policy. Browse the 'Justice' collection.
APO is an open access service providing access to policy and practice research. Excellent coverage of Australian policy. Browse the 'Justice' collection.
The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory by 
The Handbook of the History & Philosophy of Criminology by