Members Discount Offers
Cambridge Scholars (www.cambridgescholars.com)
Cambridge Scholars are pleased to provide a 20% discount code to British Criminology Society members for selected criminology titles. Go to the website and enter the code criminology20 before proceeding through checkout.
Cambridge Scholars have over 5,000 titles in their catalogue across a range of subjects, with a particular focus on the arts, humanities and social sciences. They provide a dedicated author service, with no cost to the editor or author, complimentary copies, and a substantial author discount. They also offer a generous royalty structure, where authors receive royalties from the very first sale. In addition, the publishing process is faster than most other publishers, usually being less than six months after final submission without compromising either the quality of the publication or the balance between editorial guidance and the author’s control over the integrity of their original argument.
Please contact admin@cambridgescholars.com with any queries.
Emerald Publishing
From March 1, 2020 the Criminology team at Emerald Publishing are pleased to provide a 20% discount code to British Criminology Society members on all criminology titles. Go to emeraldpublishing.com/bookstore and enter the code EMEBSC20 when you checkout.
Featured titles
Video Games Crime and Next-Gen Deviance: Reorienting the Debate
Editors: Craig Kelly, Adam Lynes and Kevin Hoffin
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, freely available to read online. Drawing on the emerging deviant literature perspective, this book explores a range of culturally embedded harms and other activities to offer new insight on the idea that video games are intertwined with forms of deviancy.
A History of the Assessment of Sex Offenders: 1830-2020
Richard Laws, Pacific Behavioural Assessment, Canada
This book provides historical background of sex offender assessment from 1830 to the present. Topics covered include early efforts to identify and describe criminal populations statistically; the introduction of phrenology as a description of brain function; the efforts of criminal anthropologists to develop criminal taxonomies; the technology of anthropometry to identify individuals by measurement of bodily structure; and the introduction of fingerprinting which replaced anthropometry and remains largely unchanged to the present day. The guiding principle of the book is to help the reader understand that all of this represents a continuous thread of development and, disparate as they might seem, all of them are connected.
Emerald Publishing are an award-winning, independent academic publisher, based in Bingley, West Yorkshire. They are proud to be working with publisher Julia Willan to build a path-breaking new criminology books list.
Established by academics in 1967, Emerald was born of the communities it was set up to serve, with a commitment to help people make decisions that count, based on research that matters. Their aim has always been to publish rigorous academic research that helps students, researchers, educators and practitioners at all stages of their career. They combine strong roots in publishing with innovative author services and expertise in education, learning and development designed to nurture fresh thinking and publish research that makes a difference within and beyond academia.
In 2018 Emerald were named the IPG Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year, and also shortlisted for the British Book Awards in the Academic, Educational and Professional category.
Please contact Sarah Broadley (sbroadley@emeraldgroup.com or @EmeraldSoc) with any queries.
Hart Publishing
Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court
Anni Pues
This timely book provides a comprehensive guide to, and rigorous analysis of, prosecutorial discretion at the International Criminal Court. This is the first ever study that takes the reader through all the key stages of the Proscecutor’s decision-making process. Starting from preliminary examinations and the decision to investigate, the book also explores case selection processes, plea agreements, culminating in the question of how to end engagement in specific country situations. The book serves as a guide to the Rome Statute through the lens of the Prosecutor’s activities. With its unique combination of legal theory and specific policy analysis, it addresses broader questions that will be relevant to other international and hybrid criminal courts and tribunals. The book will be of interest to students, practitioners of law, academics, and the wider public concerned with international law, criminal justice and international relations.
Anni Pues is Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow and a criminal and human rights lawyer.
Jul 2020 | 9781509928682 | 264pp | Hbk | RSP: £75
Discount Price: £60
Order online at www.hartpublishing.co.uk – use the code UG6 at the checkout to get 20% off your order!
Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice
Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change
Geoff Pearson and Mike Rowe
Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice analyses the utilisation, regulation and legitimacy of police powers. Drawing upon six-years of ethnographic research in two police forces in England, this book uncovers the importance of time and place, supervision and monitoring, local policies and law. Covering a period when the police were under intense scrutiny and subject to austerity measures, the authors contend that the concept of police culture does not help us understand police discretion. They argue that change is a dominant feature of policing and identify fragmented responses to law and policy reform, varying between police stations, across different policing roles, and between senior and frontline ranks.
Geoff Pearson is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester.
Mike Rowe is Lecturer at the Liverpool Management School.
Jul 2020 | 9781509925377 | 248pp | Hbk | RSP: £60
Discount Price: £48
Order online at www.hartpublishing.co.uk – use the code UG6 at the checkout to get 20% off your order!
The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law
Irene Wieczorek
This book traces the history of the EU competence, EU policy discourse and EU legislation in the field of criminalisation from Maastricht until the present day. It asks ’Why EU Criminal Law?’ looking at what rationales the Treaty, policy document and legislation put forth when deciding whether a certain behaviour should be a criminal offence. To interpret the EU approach to criminalisation, it relies on both modern and post-modern theoretical frameworks on the legitimacy of criminal law, read jointly with the theories on the functions of EU harmonisation of national law. The book demonstrates that while EU constitutional law leans towards an effectiveness-based, enforcement-driven, understanding of criminal law, the EU has in fact in more than one instance adopted symbolic EU criminal law, ie criminal law aimed at highlighting what values are important to the EU, but which is not fit to actually deter individuals from harming such values. The book then questions whether this approach is consistent or in contradiction with the values-based constitutional identity the EU has set for itself.
Irene Wieczorek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Durham.
Jul 2020 | 9781509919741 | 272pp | Hbk | RSP: £75
Discount Price: £60
Order online at www.hartpublishing.co.uk – use the code UG6 at the checkout to get 20% off your order!
Bristol University Press | Home of Policy Press
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All subscribers receive 35% discount on books.
Bristol University Press also offer a 30% discount for BSC members on all their titles. At checkout please enter the following code: POBSC
Journals: BSC members can also get a print subscription to their journals, including the Journal of Gender-Based Violence, for just £43/€54 (UK & Europe) or £54/US$83 (Rest of World). To take advantage of this offer please contact custserv@turpin-distribution.com quoting the journal you wish to subscribe to, quoting the British Society of Criminology, and your membership number.
Bristol University Press 2019 Criminology flyer (pdf download)
New Horizons in Criminology series provides concise authoritative texts in criminology which reflect cutting edge thought and theoretical development with an international scope.
Written by leading authors in their fields, the series aims to become essential reading for all academics and students (and practitioners) interested in where criminology is heading.
50 facts everyone should know about crime and punishment in Britain invites us to reflect on just how inadequately crime and punishment are explained if we fall into the trap of being seduced by narratives. The wonderful criticality here serves as a superb resource for students and scholars, but also for a much wider audience of people fascinated by the subject of crime and society.
In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and food democracy, they problematize current food systems and criticize their underlying ideologies.
Leading green criminologist Rob White asks what can be learned from the problem-solving focus of crime prevention to help face the challenges of climate change in this call to arms for criminology and criminologists.
About Bristol University Press
Bristol University Press’ rapidly expanding Criminology list features high quality research in formats ranging from monographs and textbooks to trade books for the general reader. Committed to working with the most respected international authors, Bristol University Press brings new and exciting perspectives on a wide range of subjects including Race and Crime, Youth justice, Policing, Victimology, Prisons and Punishment, Social Harm, Global and Transnational Crime, Domestic Violence, and many more. See their full subject list and view their latest catalogue at bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
Jones & Bartlett learning books are offering 25% discount & free Postage & packaging to members of the British Society of Criminology on all titles. The discount code is BSC17
New titles:
Delinquency in Society, Tenth Edition – 9781284112955
Exploring Criminal Justice, Third Edition – 9781284112979
Criminal Investigation, Fifth Edition – 9781284082852
Recently published:
Criminology: Theory, Research and Policy – 9781284090925
An Introduction to Crime Scene Investigation, Third Edition – 9781284108149
CyberEthics – 9781284081398
SAGE Publishing is offering a 25% discount on all books to BSC members. Use code UKCRIM25 when you checkout from their website.
SAGE Talks – Webinars
SAGE Insight – puts the spotlight on research published in their journals. All the articles they link to from are free to read for a limited period.
CCJ is the journal of the BSC and is published by SAGE with an editorial team led by Editors-in-Chief, Michele Burman, Laura Piacentini and Sarah Armstrong.
Online First – Criminology and Criminal Justice offers OnlineFirst, by which forthcoming articles are published online before they are scheduled to appear in print.
Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) offer BSC members a unique 20% discount code BSC17. It is valid on all books on their website. It cannot be combined with any other offers.
You can sign up for their newsletter and receive expert tutorials, special discounts and free chapter samples.
Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature
Palgrave has a long-standing history of social science publishing since the 19th century and is proud to publish on the most critical, innovative and timely topics in Criminology. Our books regularly receive nominations and win prizes from prestigious international organisations such as the British Society of Criminology, the American Society of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, the Asian Criminological Society, and divisions of the American Society of Criminology.
We work with a line-up of the most respected international authors to bring you fresh perspectives on exciting areas of study, including: Green Criminology, Race and Crime, Critical Criminology, Crime and the Media, Policing, Probation, Victimology, Prisons and Punishment, Global and Transnational Crime, Human Rights, Hate Studies, Research Methods and much more.
The Commissioning Editor for Criminology Josie (Josephine.Taylor@palgrave.com) welcomes book proposals year round. Palgrave publishes formats including monographs, edited collections, short Palgrave Pivots, international handbooks, major reference works and upper-level textbooks. Our support for early career researchers is illustrated through our Early and Mid-Career Researcher hubs which seek to provide publishing support and advice for scholars throughout their career.
Featured titles
#MeToo and the Politics of Social Change
Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes
Both of the above titles have free previews. Palgrave also runs a ‘Social Science Matters‘ campaign with yearly events and topical blog posts; it marks Palgrave’s commitment to championing original and authoritative research within the Social Sciences. The blogs published reflect the diversity and scope of current research, highlight key challenges, and suggest innovative solutions, illustrating the indispensability of the social sciences, and the rigour which the social sciences can inspire in our understanding of the world.
This discount code BSCPalgrave2020 applies a 20% discount on all Palgrave Criminology titles and will apply from December 15, 2019.