ABSTRACT
Criminology: theory and context, third edition, expands upon the ideas presented in previous editions, while introducing new material on critical theory, feminism, masculinities, cultural criminology and postmodernism. The text has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect key perspectives in contemporary criminological theory. Relevant updates include discussions on New Labour’s criminal justice and penal policies in its third term in office, and the latest developments in criminal justice and the politics of law and order in the UK and US. This edition revisits societal and cultural influences that have shaped the discipline and invites the reader to re-examine the phenomena of crime and deviance.
Criminology: theory and context, third edition, is presented in a logical structure and adopts an accessible framework. The text is essential reading for students of criminology, criminological theory and criminal justice and will also be of key interest to those studying sociology, law and the wider social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part |61 pages
Preliminaries and Early History
chapter |24 pages
Measuring Crime and Criminality
chapter |15 pages
Criminology and Criminologists Up to World War Two
part |65 pages
World War Two to the Mid-1960s
chapter |18 pages
The Discipline of Criminology and Its Context – 1
chapter |21 pages
Social Disorganisation and Anomie
chapter |7 pages
Strain, Subcultures and Delinquency
chapter |16 pages
Criminological Theory in Britain
part |29 pages
The Mid-1960s to the Early 1970s
chapter |12 pages
The Discipline of Criminology and Its Context – 2
part |58 pages
The 1970s
chapter |19 pages
The Discipline of Criminology and Its Context – 3
chapter |37 pages
Post-New Deviancy and the New Criminology
part |82 pages
The 1980s to the Mid-1990s
chapter |22 pages
The Discipline of Criminology and Its Context – 4
chapter |58 pages
Criminological Theory
part |79 pages
The Mid-1990s into the New Millennium