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News

April 2009

Criminal Justice and Organised Crime lectures will be updated for autumn 2009.

A new series on 'powerful offenders' is in process.

The 'Resources and Links' section will be discontinued as most of it is integrated into the relevant lectures

No updates to History as I don't teach this course at present. But my next book will have plenty of history in it!

criminal justice

What is Criminal Justice?

The Politics of Policing

Investigating Crime

The Prosecution of Offenders

The Criminal Court Trial

Sentencing and Punishment

Criminal Justice and the Powerful Offender

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

history of crime and punishment

Course outline

Criminology and History

Crime and Punishment in Early Britain

Crime and Protest in the 18th Century

Law, Ideology and the Gallows

Crime and Industrialisation

The 'New Police'

Prosecution and the Courts

The Modern System of Punishment

Gender and Crime

White Collar Crime

organised crime

What Is Organised Crime?

Traditional Organised Crime

Traditional Organised Crime in Britain

Modernisation and Organised Crime

Globalisation and Criminal Networks

Russian Organised Crime

Crime, the State and the Economy

Money Laundering and Finance

Terrorism, War and Organised Crime

Combatting Organised Crime

Researching Organised Crime

Louk Hulsman 1923 - 2009

Louk Hulsman

It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Louk Hulsman. the Dutch abolitionist penal theorist. I remember him especially from the second half of the 1980s when the criminology group at Middlesex University joined the European Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice. Louk was at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He was part of a great tradition of penal abolitionism which embraced such thinkers as Herman Bianchi and Nils Christie

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resources and links

organised crime

criminology and criminal justice

history of crime and punishment

sue leesLink to web pages dedicated to the work of Sue Lees, feminist activist and writer who died in 2002

other interesting sites

Nic Groombridge's website. Criminology and much besides!

Middlesex University Centre for the Study of Crime. Conflict and Control

Jock Young (articles on crime, policing, immigration)

N16 magazine (life in Stoke Newington, London UK)

Carolyne Kardia (painting and sculpture)

Lenin's Tomb - a great blog site!

why work? Brendan Caffrey's website

INTERESTING PUBLICATIONS

click here for short reviews of books, articles, websites etc. that you might find interesting