An introductory text that includes everything students need to know as they begin their study of crime and criminology. Comprehensive coverage of the key first year topic areas:

• What is Crime/Types of Crime
• Crime Theory
• Systems and Institutions of Crime
• Crime and Social Inequality and Difference
• Criminal Justice

Part 1: Crime & Criminality

1. Doing Criminology

2. Crime and the Media

3. Traditional Criminological Theory

4. Mainstream Perspectives

5. Challenges to Criminological Orthodoxies

6. Victims and Victimology

7. Crime and Social Inequality

8. Crimes and Social Difference

9. Crimes against Property

10. Crimes against the Person

11. Crimes against Convention

12. Crimes of the Powerful

13. Transnational Crimes and Global Criminology

 

Part 2: Institutions of Criminal Justice

14. Police Roles & Techniques

15. Different Policing for Different People

16. Forensic Studies

17. Law and the Legal Profession

18. Courts and Court Processes

19. Access & Alternatives to Justice

20. Judicial Decisions & Sentencing

21. Punishment & Penalty

22. Incarceration & Prisonisation

23. Community Corrections

24. Recidivism, Rehabilitation & Restorative Justice

25. Crime Prevention

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

Santina Perrone – Senior Policy and Program Advisor in the Evaluation Office of the Gaming and Racing Department of Justice

This material is provided to lecturers adopting the text. To obtain a password or see a sample, please contact your representative.

The lecturer resources available are:

• Instructor’s Manual containing tutorial discussion starters, activities and teaching suggestions for each chapter in the book
• Image Gallery – downloadable jpegs of all of the tables and figures in the book, for inclusion in handouts and on powerpoints, etc.