An attention to the 'fear of crime' has found its way into governmental interventions in crime prevention and into discourse with various newspapers, local government and the like conducting their own fear of crime surveys. This title challenges various assumptions which remain submerged in attempts to measure and attribute cause to crime fear.

____________________THE Sunday Times BESTSELLERA New York Times Summer readWashington Post Top Twenty books to read this summerA Sunday Times summer read'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth.

Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following. It is also riven with corruption, racism, homophobia and a violence that has for decades resisted all attempts to tame it. Cashmore and Cleland examine football's dark side: the unpleasant, sleazy and downright nasty aspects of the sport.

Includes tales of true crime that expose the seedy side of life in which corruption, avarice and scandal hold sway.

In March 1969, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gangland killings of George Cornell and Jack 'the hat' McVitie. It was recommended that they served at least 30 years for their crimes. But why such strong sentences? Were there other murders? At last the truth can be told. Prepare to be disturbed.

This book offers a global approach to organized crime and the multitude of forces that shape it, discusses various forms around the world and contemporary issues such as terrorism and cybercrime, and examines its investigation and prevention.

Now in its third edition, Globalization & Crime provides students with a comprehensive overview of the essential themes and conceptual debates surrounding globalization and global criminology. The new edition features two new chapters and a collection of modern case-studies.

Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of this multi-billion pound business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld network of dealers, drug barons, bent cops and even terrorists.

Covering racist, religiously motivated, homophobic and disablist hate crime, along with gender and violence, this book provides readers with a fully up-to-date exploration of the relation of hatred and prejudice to crime and criminal justice.

The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in this harrowing, often terrifying book. Helter Skelter won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 1975 for Best Fact Crime Book. America watched in fascinated horror as the killers were tried and convicted. How did Manson make his 'family' kill for him?

Provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. This book explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of contemporary criminal justice, and examines the historical context for contemporary criminological debates.

The true story of the police investigation into the 'honour' killing of Banaz Mahmod

This book provides a guide for undergraduate criminology and criminal justice students undertaking their final year dissertation.

The incredible true story of the death of Jimmy Hoffa, the most famous hit in Mafia history.

A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making.

This book addresses the regulation of sex, and discusses the ways in which sexual activities are controlled, and made illegal/deviant.

The inside story behind new ITV drama White House Farm - and the only book about the Bamber murders to have been written by a family member.

Tells the story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he was exonerated, Steven Avery was arrested for the murder of Teresa Halbach, a freelance photographer who had gone missing several days earlier.

Throughout the 1960s, Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang and had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organisation whose reputation in the underworld remains to this day.

Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer's inhuman behaviour