John Tierney, Maggie O'Neill

Criminology (eBook, ePUB)

Theory and context

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Criminology: theory and context, third edition, expands upon the ideas presented in previous editions, while introducing new material on critical theory, feminism, masculinities, cultural criminology and postmodernism. The text has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect key perspectives in contemporary criminological theory. The text is essential reading for students of criminology, criminological theory and criminal justice and will also be of key interest to those studying sociology, law and the wider social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317903130
• Artikelnr.: 40172245

Autorenporträt

John Tierney was a Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Preliminaries and Early History
1. Criminology
crime
deviance and criminal justice
2. Measuring crime and criminality
3. Criminology and criminologists up to world war two
Part 2. World War 2 to the Mid 60's
4. The discipline of criminology and its context 1
5. Social disorganisation and anomie
6. Strain
subcultures and delinquency
7. Criminological theory in Britain
Part 3. The mid-60's to the early 70's
8. The discipline of criminology and its context 2
9. New Deviancy Theory: the interactionist approach to deviance
Part 4. The 1970s
10. The discipline of criminology and its context 3
11. Post-new deviancy and the new criminology
Part 5. 1980s to the mid-90s
12. The discipline of criminology and its context 4
13. Criminological Theory - feminism and administrative
right realism
critical criminology and left realism
Part 6. The mid 90's to the new millennium
14. The discipline of criminology and its context 5
15. Criminological Theories: Recent Developments
16. Conclusion/Postscript