This volume presents the proceedings of a landmark conference held at the Council of Europe examining three decades of crime and criminal justice statistics in Europe. Drawing together leading experts, it commemorates the publication of the sixth edition of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics while exploring critical developments in measuring and understanding crime across Europe since the 1990s. The book addresses key methodological challenges in comparative crim...

Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders. This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study of serial sex killers....

An undergraduate introduction to the research process and research methods in media studies. Uniquely student-centred, and built around first year teaching at the world’s #1 ranked media studies department.

An exploration of both the context and practice of increasingly automated welfare states. From the complex technological systems behind implementation, to the lived experiences of citizens and workers in these new systems, to the possibilities for resisting and re-directing this datafication.

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Written by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

This book explores the flesh and breath of African feminist politics as embodied in activism over the past thirty years against sexism, militarism, homophobia and transphobia, global economic inequality, and religious fundamentalism, and towards freedoms that can be felt by African women and gender non-conforming people in the everyday.

In combining a critical, philosophical approach with an expertly selected body of practical examples, this landmark text provides both the intellectual understanding and the technical skills required to produce sophisticated, robust literature reviews of the very highest standard.

In 2010 werd Emile Kolthoff benoemd tot eerste hoogleraar Criminologie van de Open Universiteit. Vanuit de leerstoel werd onderzoek naar organisatiecriminaliteit en georganiseerde criminaliteit geïnitieerd, werd het onderwijs in de criminologie opgezet en werd het onderzoeksprogramma De veilige stad met bijbehorende minor ontwikkeld. De politie was daarbij een specifiek aandachtsgebied. In zijn afscheidsrede kijkt Kolthoff terug op de ontwikkelingen binnen het vakgebied sinds de instelling v...