• A complete and authoritative single-volume guide to criminology: Essential reading for all students, teachers, and criminologists, it is a book that will last students for the duration of their studies and beyond
• Brings together contributions from leading academics detailing the relevant theory, recent research, policy developments, and current debates, enabling students to fully appreciate the diverse array of viewpoints in criminological discourse
• Includes detailed references enabling readers to further research the topics discussed
• An accompanying website (Online Resource Centre) includes selected chapters from previous editions, web links to key criminological resources and advice on answering essay questions

New to this edition

• Fully updated to include discussion and analysis of all new developments, including a new chapter on imprisonment and the changing penal system
• Headings, bullet points and data tables are all presented in a clear two-colour text design

Criminology: History and Theory
1: Paul Rock: Sociological Theories of Crime
2: Clive R. Hollin: Criminal Psychology
3: Ian Loader & Richard Sparks: Contemporary Landscapes of Crime, Order and Control: Governance, Risk, and Globalization
4: Keith Hayward & Jock Young: Cultural Criminology
5: Clive Emsley: Historical perspectives on Crime
6: David Nelken: Comparing Criminal Justice
7: Barbara Hudson: Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice
The Social Construction of Crime and Crime Control
8: Nicola Lacey: Legal Constructions of Crime
9: David Downes & Rod Morgan: No Turning Back: the Politics of Law and Order into the Millennium
10: Mike Maguire: Crime data and statistics
11: Robert Reiner: Media Made Criminality: the Representation of Crime in the Mass Media
Dimensions of Crime
12: Robert Reiner: Political Economy, Crime, and Criminal Justice
13: Frances Heidensohn & Loraine Gelsthorpe: Gender and Crime
14: Coretta Phillips & Ben Bowling: Ethnicities, Racism, Crime, and Criminal Justice
15: Carolyn Hoyle & Lucia Zedner: Victims, Victimization and Criminal Justice
16: Jill Peay: Mentally Disordered Offenders, Mental Health, and Crime
17: Anthony E. Bottoms: Place, Space, Crime and Disorder
18: Tim Newburn: Youth Crime and Youth Culture
19: David P. Farrington: Childhood Risk Factors and Risk-Focussed Prevention
20: David J. Smith: Crime and the Life Course
Forms of Crime
21: Michael Levi, Mike Maguire & Fiona Brookman: Violent Crime
22: David Nelken: White-Collar and Corporate Crime
23: Michael Levi: Organizing Crime and Terrorism
24: Nigel South: Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime
Reactions to Crime
25: Trevor Jones: The Governance of Security: Pluralization, Privatization, and Polarization in Crime Control
26: Adam Crawford: Crime Prevention and Community Safety
27: Tim Newburn & Robert Reiner: Policing and the Police
28: Andrew Sanders & Richard Young: From Suspect to Trial
29: Andrew Ashworth: Sentencing
30: Rod Morgan & Tim Newburn: Youth Justice
31: Peter Raynor: Community Penalties: Probation, 'What Works' and Offender Management
32: Rod Morgan & Alison Liebling: Imprisonment: An Expanding Scene

Mike Maguire, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University and University of Glamorgan

Rod Morgan, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Bristol and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Contributors:
Paul Rock, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Clive R. Hollin, School of Psychology, University of Leicester
Ian Loader, Centre for Criminology, Keele University
Richard Sparks, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Jock Young, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
Trevor Jones, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Barbara Hudson, School of Law, University of Central Lancashire
Nicola Lacey, School of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Clive Emsley, European Centre for the Study of Policing, Open University
David Downes, Social Policy Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
Lucia Zedner, Corpus Christie College, University of Oxford
Carolyn Hoyle, Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford
Frances Heidensohn, Politics Department, University of London
Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
Tim Newburn, Social Policy Department, London School of Economics and Political Science
Coretta Phillips, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ben Bowling, School of Social Sciences, King's College London
Anthony E. Bottoms, Institute for Criminology, University of Cambridge
David P. Farrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
David J. Smith, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Jill Peay, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael Levi, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
David Nelken, School of Law, Cardiff University
Nigel South, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
Adam Crawford, School of Law, University of Leeds
Andrew Sanders, School of Law, University of Manchester
Richard Young, School of Law, University of Bristol
Andrew Ashworth, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
Peter Raynor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Wales Swansea