Island Criminology - John Scott Shepherd, Zoe Staines

Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Christine M. Alder Book Award 2025. Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond the question of whether islands have more, or less, crime than other places, and instead addresses issues of how, and by whom, crime is defined in island settings, which crimes are policed and visible,... Zobrazit více