Key Readings in Criminology provides a comprehensive single-volume collection of readings in criminology. It provides students with convenient access to a broad range of excerpts (over 150 readings) from original criminological texts and key articles, and is designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with the same author's textbook, Criminology. This volume can be used in a number of ways in support of the study of criminology: as a source of both 'key' and supplementary reading for lectures as the basis for organized reading in advance of seminars and tutorials as the basis for classroom discussion and analysis as a broad source of reading for exam revision in addition it provides students with access to a broad range of materials with which to follow up their reading of their main textbook includes readings that include both more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues as well as excerpts from criminological classics introduces students not only to criminological argument and debate but also encourages them to read primary as well as secondary or summary sources.
| ISBN | 1843924021 | | Pages | 928 | | ISBN13 | 9781843924029
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 1791 | | Imprint | Willan Publishing | | Published in | Cullompton | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 264 | | Publication date | 01 Sep 2009 | | Width (mm) | 193 | | DEWEY | 364 | | Spine width (mm) | 51 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate |
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1. Understanding Crime and Criminology Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 1.1 What is crime?, Paul Tappan 1.2 Conceptions of deviance, official data and deviants, Steven Box 1.3 The construction and deconstruction of crime, John Muncie 1.4 A suitable amount of crime, Nils Christie 2. Crime and Punishment in History Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 2.1 Execution and the English people, Vic Gatrell 2.2 Eighteenth-century punishment, Michael Ignatieff 2.3 Prosecutors and the courts, Clive Emsley 2.4 Police and people: the birth of Mr Peel's blue locusts, Michael Ignatieff 2.5The London Garotting Panic of 1862: a moral panic and the creation of acriminal class in mid-Victorian England, Jennifer Davis 3. Crime Data and Crime Trends Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 3.1 The social construction of official statistics on criminal deviance, Steven Box 3.2 A note on the use of official statistics, John Kitsuse and Aaron Cicourel 3.3 The origins of the British Crime Survey, Mike Hough, Mike Maxfield, B. Morris and J Simmons 3.4 Unravelling recent crime patterns and trends, Robert Reiner 4. Crime and the Media, Introduction, Key concepts and questions for discussion 4.1What makes crime 'news'?, Jack Katz 4.2 The media politics of crime and criminal justice, Philip Schlesinger, H. Tumber, and G. Murdock 4.3 On the continuing problem of media effects, Sonia Livingstone 4.4 The sociology of moral panics, Stan Cohen 5. Classicism and Positivism Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 5.1 On Crimes and Punishments, Cesare Beccaria 5.2 The female born criminal, Cesare Lombroso 5.3 The positive school of criminology, Enrico Ferri 6. Biological Positivism Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 6.1 Criminal anthropology in the United States, Nicola Rafter 6.2 The increasing appropriation of genetic explanations, Troy Duster 6.3 Biosocial studies of antisocial and violent behaviour in children and adults, Adrian Raine 6.4 Evolutionary psychology and crime, Satoshi Kanazawa 7. Psychological Positivism Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 7.1 Differential association, E. Sutherland and D.Cressey 7.2 Social structure and social learning, Ron Akers 7.3 Crime as choice, James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein 7.4 The link between cognitive ability and criminal behaviour, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray 8. Durkheim, Anomie and Strain Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 8.1 The normal and the pathological, Emile Durkheim 8.2 Social structure and anomie, Robert Merton 8.3 Why do individuals engage in crime?, Robert Agnew 8.4 Crime and the American Dream: an institutional analysis, Richard Rosenfield and Steven Messner 8.5 The Vertigo of Late Modernity, Jock Young 9. The Chicago School: Culture and Subcultures Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 9.1 Juvenile delinquency and urban areas, Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay 9.2 Delinquent Boys: The culture of the gang, Al Cohen 9.3 Subcultural conflict and working-class community, Phil Cohen 9.4 Subcultures, cultures and class, John Clarke, Stuart Hall,Tony Jefferson and B. Roberts 9.5 Cultural criminology, Jeff Ferrell 10. Interactionism and Labelling Theory Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 10.1 Primary and secondary deviation, Edwin Lemert 10.2 Notes on the sociology of deviance, Kai Eriksen 10.3 Outsiders, Howard Becker 10.4 Misunderstanding labelling perspectives, Ken Plummer 10.5 The social reaction against drugtaking, Jock Young 11. Control Theories Introduction. Key concepts and questions for discussion 11.1 Techniques of neutralization: a theory of delinquency, Gresham Sykes and David Matza 11.2 A control theory of delinquency, Travis Hirschi 11.3 A General Theory of Crime, Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi 11.4 Charles Tittle's Control Balance and
'... by far the most comprehensive, contemporary and wide-ranging reader on the market ... I have no doubt that it will prove very successful indeed.' -- Dave Edwards, London Metropolitan University '... it's a terrific collection and nothing nearly as good exists elsewhere.' -- Jonathan Simon, University of California Berkeley 'A lot of criminology for little money. It contains so many classics we want our students to read anyway, that it is fair to say it is an excellent buy for anyone studying criminology' -- Professor Renvan Swaaningen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
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