ABSTRACT

The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students.

chapter 1|26 pages

Sociology and crime

chapter 2|20 pages

Constructing criminal law

chapter 3|24 pages

Criminalization and domination

chapter 4|20 pages

Ethnomethodology's law

chapter 5|26 pages

Policing as symbolic interaction

chapter 6|24 pages

The ethnomethodology of policing

chapter 7|25 pages

The political economy of policing

chapter 9|19 pages

Justice and symbolic interaction

chapter 10|22 pages

Ethnomethodology in court

chapter 11|28 pages

Crime and punishment

chapter 12|14 pages

The functions of crime control