Criminological perspectives : a reader

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Criminological perspectives : a reader

edited and introduced by John Muncie, Eugene McLaughlin and Mary Langan

Sage Publications in association with the Open University, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This comprehensive collection of original readings is designed to reflect and re-present the numerous and diverse lines of theoretical enquiry that constitute criminology. This volume consists of an accessible set of classic and contemporary readings that introduce students to the eclectic nature of `criminological knowledge'. In particular it focuses on: the origins of criminology; criminology's historic and continuing concern to discover the causes of crime; processes of criminalization and why it is that only certain harmful behaviours seem to be subject to criminal sanction; competing rationales for systems of crime control - from deterrence, just deserts and rehabilitation to crime prevention; issues of social control - from the formal processes of the criminal justice to regulation and surveillance in the community; and the future of criminology and its potential for further theoretical development. It is the set book for The Open University course D315 Crime, Order and Social Control.

Table of Contents

Criminological Perspectives: An Introduction PART ONE: CRIMINOLOGICAL FORMATIONS Introduction On Crimes and Punishments - Cesare Beccaria Of the Development of the Propensity to Crime - Adolphe Quetelet The Criminal Type in Women and its Atavistic Origin - Cesare Lombroso and William Ferrero Causes of Criminal Behavior - Enrico Ferri Criminality and Economic Conditions - Willem Bonger The Normal and the Pathological - Emile Durkheim Law and Authority - Peter Kropotkin British Criminology before 1935 - David Garland PART TWO: THE PROBLEM OF CRIME I: CAUSATION Introduction Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Criminal Behavior - Sarnoff A Mednick, William F Gabrielli Jr and Barry Hutchings Personality Theory and the Problem of Criminality - H J Eysenck Explanations of Crime and Place - Anthony E Bottoms and Paul Wiles Crime and Consumption - Simon Field The Underclass - Charles Murray Relative Deprivation - John Lea and Jock Young Seductions and Repulsions of Crime - Jack Katz The Etiology of Female Crime - Dorie Klein Explaining Male Violence - Lynne Segal PART THREE: THE PROBLEM OF CRIME II: CRIMINALIZATION Introduction Techniques of Neutralization - Gresham M Sykes and David Matza Outsiders - Howard Becker Toward a Political Economy of Crime - William J Chambliss The New Criminology - Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young Crime, Power and Ideological Mystification - Steven Box Drifting into a Law and Order Society - Stuart Hall Criminalization and Racialization - Michael Keith The Theoretical and Political Priorities of Critical Criminology - Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick Critical Criminology and the Concept of Crime - Louk H C Hulsman PART FOUR: CRIME CONTROL I: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL POLICY Introduction On Deterrence - James Q Wilson Giving Criminals Their Just Deserts - Andrew von Hirsch The Value of Rehabilitation - Francis T Cullen and Karen E Gilbert `Situational' Crime Prevention - Ronald V G Clarke Theory and Practice Social Crime Prevention Strategies in a Market Society - Elliot Currie Abolitionism and Crime Control - Willem De Haan The New Penology - Malcolm M Feeley and Jonathan Simon PART FIVE: CRIME CONTROL II: SOCIAL CONTROL, DISCIPLINE AND REGULATION Introduction Crime, Authority and the Policeman-State - V A C Gatrell The Carceral - Michel Foucault The Punitive City - Stanley Cohen From the Panopticon to Disney World - Clifford D Shearing and Philip C Stenning The Development of Discipline The Power of Law - Carol Smart Reintegrative Shaming - John Braithwaite PART SIX: WITHIN AND BEYOND CRIMINOLOGY Introduction The Failure of Criminology - Jock Young The Need for a Radical Realism Feminist Approaches to Criminology or Postmodern Woman Meets Atavistic Man - Carol Smart Towards Transgression - Maureen Cain New Directions in Feminist Criminology Critical Women and Criminal Justice - Pat Carlen The Limits to, and Potential of, Feminist and Left Realist Perspectives Postmodernism and Critical Criminology - Alan Hunt Human Rights and Crimes of the State - Stanley Cohen The Culture of Denial The Fragmentation of Criminology - Richard Ericson and Kevin Carriere

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  • NCID
    BA27279412
  • ISBN
    • 0761950028
    • 0761950036
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiv, 530 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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