Criminology
eBook - PDF

Criminology

A Reader

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Criminology

A Reader

About this book

This reader provides a comprehensive introduction for students studying criminology at undergraduate level. Not only does the book include 34 essential readings, but also editorial commentary with section introductions, study questions, and suggestions for further reading.

The reader will provide a thorough grounding in issues related to the study of crime, the criminal justice system, and social control. In their selection the editors have sought to indicate crime?s varied and conflicting history as well as its current debates. The mixture of historical and more recent readings shows a variety of perspectives.

The Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students and teachers in the fields of criminology, criminal justice studies, the sociology of crime and deviance, socio- legal studies, social policy, criminal law and social work.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Approaching the Study of Crime: Historical and Definitional Issues
  5. Chapter 1 - Victorian boys, we are here!
  6. Chapter 2 - Perspectives in criminology theory
  7. Chapter 3 - Definitions of deviance
  8. Chapter 4 - Ten points of realism
  9. Chapter 5 - Psychology and criminal behaviour
  10. Chapter 6 - The development of feminist perspectives on crime
  11. Part II: 'Mythologies' of Crime
  12. Chapter 7 - Crime, power and ideological mystification
  13. Chapter 8 - The social construction of official statistics
  14. Chapter 9 - Corporate crime, official statistics and the mass media
  15. Chapter 10 - Crime and the media: a criminologal perspective
  16. Chapter 11 - Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the mods and rockers
  17. Chapter 12 - The ultimate neighbour from hell? stranger danger and the media framing of paedophiles
  18. Chapter 13 - Crime in context: a critical criminology of market societies
  19. Part III: Crime and Social Stratification
  20. Chapter 14 - Bias in the criminal justice system
  21. Chapter 15 - Crime, culture and community
  22. Chapter 16 - White collar and corporate crime
  23. Chapter 17 - The race and crime debate
  24. Chapter 18 - From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence
  25. Chapter 19 - Youth and crime
  26. Chapter 20 - The myth of girl gangs
  27. Chapter 21 - Ordinary experiences
  28. Chapter 22 - When men are victims: the faliure of victimology
  29. Part IV: The Criminal Justice System
  30. Chapter 23 - Cop culture
  31. Chapter 24 - Policing and the police: key issues in criminal justice
  32. Chapter 25 - The trial
  33. Chapter 26 - The injudiciary
  34. Chapter 27 - Justifications and purposes of imprisonment
  35. Chapter 28 - The closed emotional world of the security wing
  36. Part V: Crime, Control and the Future
  37. Chapter 29 - Crime, control and the future: some theories and speculations
  38. Chapter 30 - Social control
  39. Chapter 31 - Smile, you're on TV
  40. Chapter 32 - They're watching you
  41. Chapter 33 - Land of the free
  42. Chapter 34 - New ways to break the law: cybercrime and the politics of hacking
  43. Author Index
  44. Subject Index