Handbook on Crime

The Handbook on Crime provides analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime. The Handbook on Crime is by far the most comprehensive and wide-ranging book of its kind, with contributions from leading authorities in their filed.This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern.