Ross Coomber, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Karen McElrath

Key Concepts in Crime and Society

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Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative introduction to key issues in the area of crime as it connects to society.

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Produktdetails

• Sage Key Concepts Series
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780857022561
• ISBN-10: 0857022563
• Artikelnr.: 41355172

Autorenporträt

Professor Ross Coomber is teaches Criminology at Griffith University, Australia. 

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION ONE: UNDERSTANDING CRIME AND CRIMINALITY
Crime (definition of)
Deviance (definition of)
Crime in pre-industrial society; crime in modern societies; crime in
post-modern society
The criminal justice system
Social construction of crime and deviance
Crime and theory
Social Control, Governance and Governmentality
Researching crime
Crime statistics
Prevalence, incidence and incident of crime
Risk from crime
Risk of becoming criminally involved: why do people commit crime
Fear and the fear of crime
Poverty and exclusion
Victims of crime
Normalisation
Gender and crime
Youth and crime
Race/ethnicity and crime
White collar/middle class and corporate class crime
SECTION TWO: TYPES OF CRIME AND CRIMINALITY
Human trafficking/slavery
Sex work
Victimless crime
Drug related crime and violence
Gangs
Environmental crime and green criminology
Rural crime
Internet/cyber crime
State Crime
War Crime
Terrorism
Violence/Interpersonal Violence
SECTION THREE: RESPONSES TO CRIME
Crime and the Media
Moral Panics
Police and Policing
Deterrence and Prevention
Punishment
Prisons
Rehabilitation
Alternatives to Imprisonment