Description:
- Offers a comprehensive and wide ranging overview of key criminological issues, enabling students to gain a full and rounded understanding of the subject
- Includes questions, summaries, key concepts, further reading, and tables and diagrams throughout, which help students to understand the more challenging issues and engage with the key debates
- Accompanied by an extensive companion web site, which provides extra support for lecturers using the textbook in their teaching and valuable additional materials for students
Criminology is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students coming to the subject for the first time. The book covers a wide range of topics: the historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; who commits crime and who are the victims of crime; and how does society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder. The book includes questions, summaries, key concepts, and tables and diagrams throughout, and has an extensive companion web site.
Contents
- Introducing crime and criminology
- 1 What is crime?
- 2 History of crime
- 3 What do crime statistics tell us?
- 4 Theoretical criminology 1 Criminological theory: a starting point
- 5 Theoretical criminology 2 Just theory: theory, crime and criminal justice
- 6 Psychology and crime: understanding the interface
- 7 Crime and culture
- 8 Crime and the media: understanding the connections
- Forms of crime
- 9 Crime and everyday life
- 10 Drugs, alcohol and crime
- 11 Violent crime
- 12 Sex crime
- 13 Corporate crime
- 14 Organised crime
- 15 Terrorism and state crime
- Social dimensions of Crime
- 16 Economic marginalisation, poverty, social exclusion and crime
- 17 Gender and Crime
- 18 'Race', ethnicity and crime
- 19 Youth crime and youth justice
- 21 Older offenders, crime, and the criminal justice system
- Responses to crime
- 22 The politics of law and order
- 23 The criminal justice system
- 24 Victims
- 25 Policing
- 26 Punishment in the community
- 27 Prisons
- 28 Surveillance: theoretical models recent developments and contemporary research issues
- Offers a comprehensive and wide ranging overview of key criminological issues, enabling students to gain a full and rounded understanding of the subject
- Includes questions, summaries, key concepts, further reading, and tables and diagrams throughout, which help students to understand the more challenging issues and engage with the key debates
- Accompanied by an extensive companion web site, which provides extra support for lecturers using the textbook in their teaching and valuable additional materials for students
Criminology is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students coming to the subject for the first time. The book covers a wide range of topics: the historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; who commits crime and who are the victims of crime; and how does society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder. The book includes questions, summaries, key concepts, and tables and diagrams throughout, and has an extensive companion web site.
Contents
- Introducing crime and criminology
- 1 What is crime?
- 2 History of crime
- 3 What do crime statistics tell us?
- 4 Theoretical criminology 1 Criminological theory: a starting point
- 5 Theoretical criminology 2 Just theory: theory, crime and criminal justice
- 6 Psychology and crime: understanding the interface
- 7 Crime and culture
- 8 Crime and the media: understanding the connections
- Forms of crime
- 9 Crime and everyday life
- 10 Drugs, alcohol and crime
- 11 Violent crime
- 12 Sex crime
- 13 Corporate crime
- 14 Organised crime
- 15 Terrorism and state crime
- Social dimensions of Crime
- 16 Economic marginalisation, poverty, social exclusion and crime
- 17 Gender and Crime
- 18 'Race', ethnicity and crime
- 19 Youth crime and youth justice
- 21 Older offenders, crime, and the criminal justice system
- Responses to crime
- 22 The politics of law and order
- 23 The criminal justice system
- 24 Victims
- 25 Policing
- 26 Punishment in the community
- 27 Prisons
- 28 Surveillance: theoretical models recent developments and contemporary research issues