The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains 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 to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime.

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. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature.

The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.

Contents

Introduction, Fiona Brookman, Mike Maguire, Harriet Pierpoint and Trevor Bennett Part I: 'Conventional' Property Crime Introduction 1. Domestic burglary, Mike Maguire, Richard Wright and Trevor Bennett 2. Vehicle crime, Rick Brown 3. Shoplifting, Nick Tilley 4. Understanding and tackling stolen goods markets, Mike Sutton Part II: Fraud and Fakes Introduction 5. Income tax evasion and benefit fraud, John Minkes and Leonard Minkes 6. Theft and fraud by employees, Martin Gill and Janice Goldstraw-White 7. Fakes, Simon Mackenzie 8. Scams, Simon Mackenzie 9. Credit fraud,vi 10. Identity theft and fraud, Natasha Semmens 11. Cybercrime, Matt Williams Part III: Violent Crime Introduction 12. Homicide, Fiona Brookman 13. Domestic violence, Amanda Robinson 14. Street robbery, Trevor Bennett and Fiona Brookman 15. Stealing commercial cash: from safecracking to armed robbery, Dick Hobbs 16. Youth gang crime, Jenny Maher 17. Violence in the night-time economy, Simon Winlow 18. Hate Crime, Paul Iganski 19. Stalking and harassment, Victoria Heckels and Karl Roberts 20. Arson, Emma J. Palmer, Clive R. Hollin, Ruth M. Hatcher and Tammy Ayres 21. Blackmail, kidnapping and threats to kill, Keith Soothill and Brian Francis 22. Elder abuse, John Williams 23. School bullying: risk factors, theories and interventions, Maria M. Ttofi and David P. Farrington 24. Institutional abuse and children's homes, Jonathan Evans 25. Animal abuse, Harriet Pierpoint and Jenny Maher Part IV: Sex-Related Crime Introduction 26. Sexual offences against adults, Clive R. Hollin, Ru...