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Criminology, 3rd Edition

Author: Chris Hale; Keith Hayward; Azrini Wahidin; Emma Wincup
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199691296
Published In: June 2013
Format: Paperback , 600 pages
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Offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of key criminological issues from specialists in the field, enabling students to gain a full and rounded understanding of the subject
Includes questions, summaries, further reading guidance, useful web links, and tables and diagrams throughout, which help students to understand the more challenging issues and engage with the key debates
Accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre, which provides extra support for lecturers using the textbook in their teaching and valuable additional materials for students

New to this edition

Brand new chapter on the emergence, scope, and regulation of cybercrime
Seminal chapter on 'crime, culture, and everyday life', an area of growing importance
Six new authors from the universities of Kent, Durham, Southampton, Cardiff, and Northumbria

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. Criminology is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students approaching the subject for the first time. It examines a wide range of topics, including 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 society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder.

The contributions to this book offer clear, accessible introductions to the main topics and issues of criminology. Questions, summaries, further reading guidance, useful web links, and tables and diagrams can be found throughout. The third edition includes contributions from six new authors and contains new chapters on cybercrime, and 'crime, culture, and everyday life'.

PART I: INTRODUCING CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY
1: Wayne Morrison: What is crime? Contrasting definitions and perspectives
2: Anne Logan: History of Crime
3: Tim Hope: What do crime statistics tell us?
4: Keith Hayward and Wayne Morrison: Theoretical criminology: a starting point
5: Emma Wincup: Researching crime and criminal justice
6: Keith Hayward and Craig Webber: Psychology and crime
7: Chris Greer: Crime and the media
PART II: FORMS OF CRIME
8: Emma Wincup and Peter Traynor: Drugs, alcohol and crime
9: Larry Ray: Violent crime
10: Terry Thomas: Sex crime
11: Steve Tombs: Corporate crime
12: Matthew Williams and David Wall: Cybercrime
13: Frank Furedi: Terrorism and the politics of fear
PART III: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME
14: Chris Hale: Economic marginalisation, inequality and crime
15: Azrini Wahidin: Gender and Crime
16: Marian Fitzgerald: 'Race', ethnicity and crime
17: Derek Kirton: Youth and crime
18: Jeff Ferrell and Jonathan Ilan: Crime, culture and everyday life
PART IV: RESPONSES TO CRIME
19: Marian Fitzgerald: The politics of law and order
20: Steve Uglow: The criminal justice system
21: Richard Jones: Security, risk and surveillance
22: Pamela Davies: Victims
23: Trevor Jones: Policing
24: Anne Worrall and Rob Canton: Community Sentences and Offender Management
25: Roger Matthews: Prisons

Chris Hale is Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent and Programme Co-ordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology.

Keith Hayward is Professor of Criminology and Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent.

Professor Azrini Wahidin is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University.

Dr Emma Wincup is Director of Student Education and Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the School of Law, University of Leeds.

Contributors:
Rob Canton, De Montfort University
Pamela Davies, Northumbria University
Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University and the University of Kent
Marian Fitzgerald, University of Kent
Frank Furedi, University of Kent
Chris Greer, City University, London
Chris Hale, University of Kent
Keith Hayward, University of Kent
Tim Hope, Salford University
Johnny Ilan, University of Kent
Richard Jones, University of Edinburgh
Trevor Jones, Cardiff University
Derek Kirton, University of Kent
Anne Logan, University of Kent
Roger Matthews, University of Kent
Wayne Morrison, University of London
Larry Ray, University of Kent
Terry Thomas, Leeds Metropolitan University
Steve Tombs, Open University
Peter Traynor, University of Leeds
Steve Uglow, University of Kent
Azrini Wahidin, Nottingham Trent University
David Wall, Durham University
Craig Webber, University of Southampton
Matthew Williams, Cardiff University
Emma Wincup, University of Leeds
Anne Worrall, Keele University

"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

"Given its scope and the inclusion of study questions, further reading and web links, lecturers will inevitably find this a useful core textbook." - Times Higher Education Supplement

"The editors bring together an excellent group of contributions, making this a fascinating read. One of the real benefits is the scope of the material covered, which includes areas often neglected by criminology textbooks." -Times Higher Education Supplement

"A very useful compilation of the subject of criminology for undergraduates and people studying criminology, particularly for the first time." - Dr. Lystra Hagley-Dickinson, British Journal of Criminology Newsletter 2006