Crime and Social Control provides a basic overview of the ways in which the state intervenes in the lives of offenders, victims, and members of the wider community. It introduces the key players in the criminal justice system, shows how state agencies and social institutions respond (and create) offensive behaviour, surveys the strengths and weaknesses of existing forms and methods of crime control, and describes the development of general theories and practices of criminal justice over time. Substantially revised and updated, the new edition of Crime and Social Control retains its reader-friendly style and incorporates new material and references consistent with the changes to institutions and the criminal justice system. New material covered in the book includes private policing, police accountability, ethnic minority young people, zero tolerance policy, and the Courts.

• Student-friendly- the book is comprehensive and written especially for the needs of undergraduate criminology and criminal justice students
• Heavily revised and updated to include new material and references
• Chapters reorganised to highlight new areas of interest in private policing, ethnic minorities and young people, zero tolerance policy, police accountability, and the Courts
• Value pack potential, Crime and Social Control 2e completes the trilogy of introductory textbooks on criminology. Its analysis of institutions and the criminal justice system complements Crime and Society, which describes crime and the nature of crime, and the highly popular and successful Crime and Criminology 3e, which analyses the key perspectives and theories in criminology.

1. Police Roles and Techniques

2. Police Discretion and Differential Policing

3. Law, Courts and the Legal Profession

4. Access and Alternatives to Justice

5. Judicial Decisions and Sentencing

6. Punishment and penalty

7. Incarceration and Prisonisation

8. Community Corrections

9. Crime prevention

10. Victims of Crime.

Rob White – Professor and Head, School of Sociology, Social Work and Tourism, University of Tasmania

Santina Perrone – Senior Policy Officer, Crime Prevention Victoria, Department of Justice, Victoria