Full Description
This reader provides a comprehensive introduction for students studying criminology at undergraduate level. Not only does the book include 34 essential readings, but also editorial commentary with section introductions, study questions, and suggestions for further reading.
The reader will provide a thorough grounding in issues related to the study of crime, the criminal justice system, and social control. In their selection the editors have sought to indicate crime's varied and conflicting history as well as its current debates. The mixture of historical and more recent readings shows a variety of perspectives.
The Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students and teachers in the fields of criminology, criminal justice studies, the sociology of crime and deviance, socio- legal studies, social policy, criminal law and social work.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: APPROACHING THE STUDY OF CRIME: HISTORICAL AND DEFINITIONAL ISSUES
Victorian Boys, We are Here! - Geoffrey Pearson
Perspectives in Criminological Theory - Sandra Walklate
Definitions of Deviance - Howard S Becker
Ten Points of Realism - Jock Young
Psychology and Crime Behaviour - Peter B Ainsworth
The Development of Feminist Perspectives on Crime - Nicole Hahn Rafter and Frances Heidensohn
PART TWO: MYTHOLOGIES OF CRIME
Crime, Power and Ideological Mystification - Steven Box
The Social Construction of Official Statistics - Clive Coleman and Jenny Moynihan
Corporate Crime, Official Statistics and the Mass Media - Gary Slapper and Steve Tombs
Crime and the Media - David Kidd-Hewitt
A Criminological Perspective
Folk Devils and Moral Panics - Stanley Cohen
The Creation of the Mods and Rockers
The Ultimate Neighbour from Hell? Stranger Danger and the Media Framing of Paedophiles - Jerry Kitzinger
Crime in Context - Ian Taylor
A Critical Criminology of Market Societies
PART THREE: CRIME AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Bias in the Criminal Justice System - Micheal Cavadino and James Dignan
Crime, Culture and Community - Janet Foster
White Collar and Corporate Crime - Hazel Croall
The Race and Crime Debate - John Lea and Jock Young
From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence - Stuart Hall
Youth and Crime - John Muncie
A Critical Introduction
The Myth of Girl Gangs - Susan Batchelor
Ordinary Experiences - Elizabeth A Stanko
When Men are Victims - Tim Newburn and Elizabeth A Stanko
The Failure of Victimology
PART FOUR: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Cop Culture - Rob Reiner
Policing and the Police - Clive Coleman and Clive Norris
Key Issues in Criminal Justice
The Trial - Frank Belloni and Jacqueline Hodgson
The Injudiciary - Andrew Billen
Justifications and Purposes of Imprisonment - Ian Dunbar and Anthony Langdon
The Closed Emotional World of Security Wing - Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor
PART FIVE: CRIME CONTROL AND THE FUTURE
Crime, Control and the Future - Nigel South
Some Theories and Speculations
Social Control - Barbara A Hudson
Smile, You're on TV - John Naughton
They're Watching You - Martin Bright
Land of the Free - Gary Younge
New Ways to Break the Law - Douglas Thomas
Cybercrime and the Politics of Hacking
