Criminology 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 do society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder. The book includes questions, summaries, key concepts, and tables and diagrams throughout, and has an extensive companion web site.

• 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

Supplements and Resources:

• Companion Web Site: www.oup.com.uk/booksites/content/0199270368 which provides extra support for lecturers using the textbook in their teaching and valuable additional materials for students

INTRODUCING CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY

1. What is crime? Contrasting definitions and perspectives

2. History of crime 3. What do crime statistics tell us?

4. Theoretical criminology 1 Criminological theory: a starting point

5. Theoretical criminology 2 Just theory: theory, crime and criminal justice

6. Psychology and crime: understanding the interface

7. Crime and culture

8. Crime and media: understanding the connections

FORMS OF CRIME

9. Crime and everyday life

10. Drugs, alcohol and crime

11. Violent crime

12. Sex crime

13. Corporate crime

14. Organised crime

15. Terrorism and state crime

SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME

16. Economic marginalisation, poverty, social exclusion and crime

17. Gender and Crime

18. 'Race', ethnicity and crime

19. Youth crime and youth justice

20. Older offenders, crime, and the criminal justice system

RESPONSES TO CRIME

21. The politics of law and order

22. The criminal justice system

23. Victims

24. Policing

25. Punishment in the community

26. Prisons

27. Surveillance: theoretical models recent developments and contemporary research issues

Edited by Chris Hale – Professor of Criminology in the 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

Emma Wincup – Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds

 

"A first-rate resource with which to study and debate current issues within the subject." Anna Markovska, Anglia Ruskin University, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol 46 No 4, September 2007