The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 7th Edition

Name: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 7th Edition
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198860914
Price: 706.03 HKD
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Author: Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan; Robert Reiner
ISBN: 9780198860914

Edited by Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan · Robert Reiner

Oxford University Press September 2023

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198860914
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: September 2023
Format: Paperback , 1056 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume guide to criminology
Brings together contributions from leading academics detailing the relevant theory, recent research, policy developments, and current debates, enabling students to fully appreciate the diverse array of viewpoints in criminological discourse
Includes detailed references enabling readers to further research the topics discussed
Features an extensive online resource centre providing additional teaching and learning materials for both students and lecturers

New to this edition

Features completely new chapters on: * The state of modern criminology * Public views about crime and justice * Youth crime and justice * Developmental and life-course criminology * The organisation of serious crimes for gain * Terrorism and counter-terrorism * State crime and human rights * Community sanctions * Out-of-court decisions: cautions, fixed penalties, breach, parole

The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text on the subject, the fifth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive references to aid further research.

In addition to the history of the discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book provides up-to-date reviews of such diverse topics as public views about crime and justice, youth crime and justice and state crime and human rights.

The fifth edition has been substantially revised and updated so that it covers topics being taught at undergraduate level as well as encapsulating the latest developments in the academic and practical spheres of criminology, including reflections on the August 2011 riots. An impressive line-up of contributors, experts in their respective fields, means the Oxford Handbook of Criminology will continue to be an essential purchase for all students and teachers of criminology and an indispensable resource for professionals.

Online Resource Centre

* Selected chapters from previous editions
* Details about the contributors
* Guidance on answering essay questions
* Essay questions
* Selected further reading
* Weblinks
* Figures and tables from the text

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying criminology as part of their degree programmes as well as academics and researchers in the field.

Criminology: History and Theory
1: Ian Loader & Richard Sparks: Situating criminology: On the production and consumption of knowledge about crime and justice
2: Paul Rock: Sociological theories of crime
3: Clive R. Hollin: Criminological psychology
4: Keith Hayward & Jock Young: Cultural criminology
5: David Nelken: Comparing criminal justice
Social Constructions of Crime and Crime Control
6: Nicola Lacey & Lucia Zedner: Legal constructions of crime
7: David Downes & Rod Morgan: Overtaking on the left? The politics of law and order in the 'Big Society'
8: Mike Maguire: Criminal statistics and the construction of crime
9: Chris Greer & Robert Reiner: Mediated mayhem: media, crime, criminal justice
10: Mike Hough & Julian V. Roberts: Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
Dimensions of Crime
11: Robert Reiner: Casino capital's crimes: political economy, crime, and criminal justice
12: Frances Heidensohn & Marisa Silvestri: Gender and crime
13: Coretta Phillips & Ben Bowling: Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
14: Carolyn Hoyle: Victims, the criminal process, and restorative justice
15: Jill Peay: Mentally disordered offenders, mental health, and crime
16: Anthony Bottoms: Developing socio-spatial criminology
17: Rod Morgan & Tim Newburn: Youth crime and justice: rediscovering devolution, discretion, and diversion?
18: Lesly McAra & Susan McVie: Critical debates in developmental and life-course criminology
Forms of Crime
19: Fiona Brookman & Amanda Robinson: Violent crime
20: Michael Levi: The organization of serious crimes for gain
21: David Nelken: White-collar and corporate crime
22: Martin Innes & Michael Levi: Terrorism and counter-terrorism
23: Fiona Measham & Nigel South: Drugs, alcohol, and crime
24: Penny Green & Tony Ward: State crime: a dialectical view
Reactions to Crime
25: Trevor Jones: Governing security: pluralization, privatization, and polarization in crime control and policing
26: Adam Crawford & Karen Evans: Crime prevention and community safety
27: Tim Newburn & Robert Reiner: Policing and the police
28: Andrew Sanders & Richard Young: From suspect to trial
29: Andrew Ashworth & Julian Roberts: Sentencing: theory, principle, and practice
30: Alison Liebling & Ben Crewe: Prison life, penal power, and prison effects
31: Peter Raynor: Community penalties, probation, and offender management
32: Nicola Padfield, Rod Morgan & Mike Maguire: Out of court, out of sight? Criminal sanctions and non-judicial decision-making
33: Friedrich Losel: Offender treatment and rehabilitation: what works?

About the Author

Edited by Mike Maguire, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Cardiff University (Emeritus) and University of Glamorgan, Rod Morgan, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol, and Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Contributors:
Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law and a member of the Centre of Criminology, University of Oxford.

Sir Anthony Bottoms is Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow in Criminology at the University of Sheffield.

Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice and Director of Criminological Studies in the School of Law, King's College London.

Fiona Brookman is a Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Glamorgan.

Adam Crawford is Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice and Director of the Security and Justice Research Group in the School of Law, University of Leeds.

Ben Crewe is Penology Director and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology's Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge.

David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics.

Karen Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sociology and Social Policy Dept., University of Liverpool.

Penny Green is Professor of Law, Head of Research and Director of the Research Degree Programme, School of Law, King's College, London.

Chris Greer is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, at the Department of Sociology, City University, London.

Keith Hayward is Professor of Criminology, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research, University of Kent.

Frances Heidensohn is Visiting Professor, Sociology Dept., LSE; Emeritus Professor of Social Policy,University of London; General Editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

Clive Hollin is Professor of Criminological Psychology in the School of Psychology at The University of Leicester.

Mike Hough is Professor of Criminal Policy and Co-Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Carolyn Hoyle is a Reader in Criminology in the Law Faculty, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Green College, Oxford.

Martin Innes is Director of the Universities' Police Science Institute and Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

Trevor Jones is a Reader in Criminology at the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Nicola Lacey is a Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; formerly Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory, Law Dept., LSE.

Michael Levi is Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and Director of Cambridge Institute of Criminology's Prisons Research Centre.

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology, Director of the Centre of Criminology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Friedrich Losel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Mike Maguire is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Glamorgan, Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University, and Director of the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice.

Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology and Head of the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Susan McVie is Professor of Quantitative Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Fiona Measham is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Dept. of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University.

Rod Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice, University of Bristol and Visiting Professor, Universities' Police Science Institute at Cardiff University.

David Nelken is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of Macerata; Visiting Professor of Criminology, Law Faculty, Oxford University; Distinguished Research Professor of Law, Cardiff University; Visiting Professor, Mannheim Centre of Criminology, LSE.

Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nicola Padfield is a Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and a Recorder in the Crown Court.

Jill Peay is Professor of Law, Law Dept., LSE.

Coretta Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Social Policy Dept., LSE.

Peter Raynor is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Law School at Swansea University, and a former probation officer.

Robert Reiner is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Law Dept., LSE.

Julian Roberts is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, member of the Centre for Criminological Research Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College.

Amanda Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

Paul Rock is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sociology Dept., LSE.

Andrew Sanders is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology and Head of the Birmingham Law School at the University of Birmingham.

Marisa Silvestri is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Dept. of Social Sciences, London South Bank University.

Nigel South is Professor of Sociology, and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic Partnerships), Faculty of Law and Management, Essex University.

Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Tony Ward is a Reader in Law at Hull University.

Jock Young is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York; Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research, University of Kent.

Richard Young is Professor of Law and Policy Research, School of Law, University of Bristol.

Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice, Law Faculty; and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.

Reviews

"'... quite simply an outstanding achievement... the only text that is authoritative, comprehensive and serious enough to be the basis of an entire course in criminology.'" - Professor Stan Cohen, The British Journal of Criminology

"'It will define undergraduate and postraduate criminology courses for some time to come...'" - Criminal Justice Matters

"'A comprehensive introduction to criminology written by the leading figures of the discipline; no other text covers the same range of topics in this depth'" - Dr Michael Fiddler, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich

"'A classic. An essential for any student of criminology.'" - Kevin Brown, Lecturer in Law, Newcastle University

"'The essential text for criminology. Combines detailed introductions to a wide range of topics with some of the smartest writing around.'" - Iain Brennan, Lecturer, Hull University

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