The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology
This new book brings together some of the leading criminologists across Europe, to showcase the best of European criminology. The Handbook aims to reflect the range and depth of current work in Europe, and to counterbalance the impact of the sometimes insular and ethnocentric Anglo-American criminological tradition. The end-product is a collection of twenty-eight chapters illustrating a truly comparative and interdisciplinary European criminology.
The editors have assembled a cast of leading voices to reflect on differences and commonalities, elaborate on theoretically grounded comparisons and reflect on emerging themes in criminology in Europe. After the editors introduction, the book is organised in three parts:
- five chapters offering historical, theoretical and policy-oriented overviews of European issues in crime and crime control,
- seven chapters looking at different dimensions of crime in Europe, including crime trends, state crime, gender and crime and urban safety,
- fifteen chapters examining the variety of institutional responses, exploring issues such as policing, juvenile justice, punishment, sentencing, trust in justice, media and crime, drugs, terrorism, immigration and data-processing.
This book gives some indication of the richness and scope of the emerging comparative European criminology. It will be required reading for anyone who wants to understand trends in crime and its control across Europe. It will be a valuable teaching resource, especially at postgraduate level, as well as an important reference point for researchers and scholars of criminology across Europe.
Sophie Body-Gendrot is Professor Emeritus at University Paris-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pnales (CESDIP-CNRS-French Ministry of Justice).
Mike Hough is Professor of Criminal Policy and Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck College, London, UK.
Klra Kerezsi is Senior Advisor and Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Criminology and Associate Professor at ELTE University, Hungary.
Ren Lvy is Senior Research Director at CNRS, France, and Director of the Groupe Europen de Recherches sur les Normativits (GERN).
Sonja Snacken is Professor of Criminology at the Free University, Brussels.
The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology
Edited by
Sophie Body-Gendrot, Mike Hough,
Klra Kerezsi, Ren Lvy
and Sonja Snacken
First published 2014
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Francis Bailleau , sociologist, is Director of Research at CNRS, Centre de Recherche Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pnales (CESDIP). Recent publications include: Les tablissements privatifs de libert pour mineurs: entre logiques institutionnelles et pratiques professionnelles, (with N. Gourmelon and P. Milburn) (CESDIP, 2012), and The criminalisation of youth. Juvenile justice in Europe, Turkey and Canada, (with Y. Cartuyvels) (VUB Press, 2010).
Aline Bauwens has a PhD in criminology (Free University, Brussels, 2011) and a MSc in Forensic Psychology (Glasgow Caledonian University). Her doctoral thesis The transformation of offender rehabilitation? compares probation policy and practice in England and Wales with that in Belgium. As a post-doctoral researcher her current research involves the interdisciplinary study of Human rights in situations of (extreme) dependency. She was recently appointed Lecturer in Criminology at the Free University, Brussels.
Rocco Bellanova holds a Research Masters degree in political science and international relations (Sciences-Paris) and graduated in international relations (University of Bologna). He has been visiting student at the University of Montreal and at the IEP in Lyon. After a trainee-experience at the European Parliament in the field of Justice and Home Affairs, he is currently researching data protection applied to security measures at both the Facults Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL) Brussels, and the Law Science Technology and Society (LSTS), Free University, Brussels.
Kristel Beyens holds a PhD in criminology and is a Professor of penology and criminological sociology at the criminology department of the Free University, Brussels (Belgium). She is a member of the Research Group Crime & Society (CRiS). Her research focuses on evolutions in contemporary punishment. She has published on prison overcrowding, sentencing and the implementation of community-based sanctions, such as electronic monitoring and community service. She is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Probation and the chair of the European Working Group on Community Sanctions.
Sophie Body-Gendrot , PhD from Sciences-po, Paris, is Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne and a researcher at CESDIP/CNRS. A former President of the European Society of Criminology (200310), she is an expert adviser for LSE, the Council of Europe and the European Commission. She is an officer of the French Legion of Honour. Her most recent work (author or co-editor) includes Globalization, Fear and Insecurity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Violence in Europe (Springer, 2007) and The Social Control of Cities (Blackwell, 2000).
Dominique Boels is a PhD student. She started as a scientific researcher at the Institute for Urban Security and Policing Studies in May 2010, where she cooperated on two research projects. In January 2011 she started her doctoral research concerning the informal economy in Belgium. In addition her research interests include migration, human trafficking and frontier-running.
Ben Bradford is Career Development Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. His research is primarily concerned with issues of trust, procedural justice, legitimacy and compliance, and cooperation in criminal justice settings. He has worked with a number of policing organisations on attempts to improve the operational understanding of these issues.
Stefano Caneppele (PhD) is Assistant Professor at Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and member of Transcrime, Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime. He is managing editor of the
