| Reviews |
| - '"The editors bring together an excellent group of contributions, making this a fascinating read. One of the real benefits is the scope of the material covered, which includes areas often neglected by criminology textbooks".' - Times Higher Education Supplement
- '"A very useful compilation of the subject of criminology for undergraduates and people studying criminology, particularly for the first time,"' - Dr. Lystra Hagley-Dickinson, British Journal of Criminology Newsletter 2006
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| 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
| Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. This 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 society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder.
The contributions to the book offer clear, accessible introductions to the main topics and issues of criminology, and the book includes questions, summaries, key concepts, further reading, and tables and diagrams throughout.
Online Resource Centre:
Lecturer resources:
· Lecture notes,
by chapter
· Powerpoint slides to accompany lecture notes, by chapter
Student resources:
· Updates
· Chapter synopses
· Bonus materials
· Annotated Further reading
· Glossary
· Web links
Test Bank:
· A testbank of approximately 300 multiple choice with answers and feedback, corresponding to each chapter of the book
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Readership: Undergraduate students on criminology degrees as well as undergraduates studying crimnology as an option on law or other social science degrees.
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
2.
Theoretical Criminology: A Starting Point
3.
Just Theory: Theory, Crime and Criminal Justice
Representations of Crime
4.
What is Crime?
5.
History of Crime
6.
What do Crime Statistics tell us?
7.
Crime and the Media: Understanding the Connections
Forms of Crime
8.
Crime and Everyday Life
9.
Organised Crime
10.
Terrorism and State Crime
11.
Corporate Crime
12.
Sex Crime
13.
Violent Crime
14.
Drugs, Alcohol and Crime
15.
Crime and Culture
Dimensions of Crime
16.
Gender and Crime
17.
Youth Crime and Youth Justice
18.
Older Offenders, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
19.
'Race', Ethnicity and Crime
20.
Economic Marginalisation, Poverty, Social Exclusion and Crime
21.
Psychology and Crime
Responses to Crime
22.
The Politics of Law and Order
23.
The Criminal Justice System
24.
Policing
25.
Surveillance: Theoretical Models Recent Developments and Contemporary Research Issues
26.
Punishment in the Community
27.
Prisons
28.
Victims
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Chris Hale, Professor of Criminology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent,
Keith Hayward, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent,
Azrini Wahidin, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, and
Emma Wincup, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds
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