The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text on the subject, the fourth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive references to aid further research. In addition to the history of the discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book provides up-to-date reviews of diverse topics as the criminal justice process, race and gender, crime statistics, and the media and crime. The fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated and is essential reading for all teachers and students of criminology and an indispensable sourcebook for professionals.

Online Resource Centre

* Web links to key criminological resources allowing students to further research the subject

* Notes on the Contributors

* Editors' Introduction to the 4th edition

Criminology: History and Theory

1. Sociological Theories of Crime, Paul Rock

 2. Criminal Psychology, Clive R. Hollin

3. Contemporary Landscapes of Crime, Order and Control: Governance, Risk, and Globalization, Ian Loader & Richard Sparks

4. Cultural Criminology, Keith Hayward & Jock Young

5. Historical perspectives on Crime, Clive Emsley

6. Comparing Criminal Justice, David Nelken

7. Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice, Barbara Hudson The Social Construction of Crime and Crime Control

8. Legal Constructions of Crime, Nicola Lacey

9. No Turning Back: the Politics of Law and Order into the Millennium, David Downes & Rod Morgan

10. Crime data and statistics, Mike Maguire

11. Media Made Criminality: the Representation of Crime in the Mass Media, Robert Reiner Dimensions of Crime

12. Political Economy, Crime, and Criminal Justice, Robert Reiner

13. Gender and Crime, Frances Heidensohn & Loraine Gelsthorpe

14. Ethnicities, Racism, Crime, and Criminal Justice, Coretta Phillips & Ben Bowling

15. Victims, Victimization and Criminal Justice, Carolyn Hoyle & Lucia Zedner

16. Mentally Disordered Offenders, Mental Health, and Crime, Jill Peay

17. Place, Space, Crime and Disorder, Anthony E. Bottoms

18. Youth Crime and Youth Culture, Tim Newburn

19. Childhood Risk Factors and Risk-Focussed Prevention, David P. Farrington

20. Crime and the Life Course, David J. Smith Forms of Crime

21. Violent Crime, Michael Levi, Mike Maguire & Fiona Brookman

22. White-Collar and Corporate Crime, David Nelken

23. Organizing Crime and Terrorism, Michael Levi

24. Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime, Nigel South Reactions to Crime

25. The Governance of Security: Pluralization, Privatization, and Polarization in Crime Control, Trevor Jones

26. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, Adam Crawford

27. Policing and the Police, Tim Newburn & Robert Reiner

28. From Suspect to Trial, Andrew Sanders & Richard Young

29. Sentencing, Andrew Ashworth

30. Youth Justice, Rod Morgan & Tim Newburn

31. Community Penalties: Probation, 'What Works' and Offender Management, Peter Raynor

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

Rod Morgan – Chairman of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol

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