Much of the scholarly literature and principal books on criminal justice and crime control policy take the operations of the criminal justice system, the causes of crime and delinquency, theories about crime and justice, and crime prevention as the central topics for study and policy analysis.
But law enforcement and public officials create policy responses to specific crimes, not broad categories of offenses. In order to develop the most effective policies, one needs to understand why particular crimes occur and what approaches might best prevent them or minimize the harm they cause.
Taking this fresh perspective, The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Public Policy offers a comprehensive examination of crimes as public policy subjects. Michael Tonry, a leading authority on criminology, has brought together the most distinguished active scholars in the field to present a
wide-ranging overview and analysis of violent and sexual crimes, property crimes, transactional crimes, transnational crimes, and crimes against morality. The crimes investigated range from often-discussed offenses (homicide, auto theft, sexual violence) to those that only recently began to receive
attention (child abuse, domestic violence, environmental crimes); it includes new crimes (identity theft, cybercrime) as well as age-old crimes (drug abuse, gambling, prostitution). Written in a straightforward and accessible manner, each chapter explains why crimes happen, how often, and what we
know about efforts to prevent or control them.
Aimed at a wide audience of scholars, students, and policy makers, the Handbook is the definitive reference work on crimes and public policy responses to them.
Part IViolent and Sexual Crime
1. Richard Rosenfeld: Homicide and Serious Assaults
2. Lisa L. Sample: Sexual Violence
3. Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig: Firearm Violence
4. Philip J. Cook: Robbery
5. Denise A. Hines: Domestic Violence
6. Kathleen Malley-Morrison and
Denise A. Hines: Child Abuse
Part IIProperty Crime
7. Wim Bernasco: Burglary
8. Michael Cherbonneau and Richard Wright: Auto Theft
9. Michael Levi: Financial Crimes
10. Heith Copes and Lynne Vieraitis: Identity Theft
Part IIITransactional Crime
11. Neal
Shover and Jennifer Scroggins: Organizational Crime
12. James Finckenauer: Organized Crime
13. Peter Cleary Yeager and Sally S. Simpson: Environmental Crime
14. Michael Levi and Peter Reuter: Money Laundering
15. Valerie Braithwaite: Tax Evasion
Part IVTransnational
Crime
16. Edward R. Kleemans: Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking
17. Laura Dugan: Terrorism
18. A. J. G. Tijhuis: Traffi cking in Cultural Artifacts
19. Samuel C. McQuade III: Cybercrime
Part VCrimes against Morality
20. Robert J. MacCoun and Karin D. Martin:
Drugs
21. Valerie Jenness: Hate Crimes
22. Jody Miller: Prostitution
23. Michael Tonry and Harriet Bildsten: Antisocial Behavior
24. John Dombrink: Gambling
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Michael Tonry is Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Free University Amsterdam, and visiting professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is
the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Why Punish? How Much? (OUP 2011) and The Handbook of Crime and Punishment (OUP 1998).
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