Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Understanding crime and criminology
Chapter 2. Crime and punishment in history
Chapter 3. Crime data and trends
Chapter 4. Crime and the media
Chapter 5. Classicism and positivism
Chapter 6. Biological positivism
Chapter 7. Psychological positivism
Chapter 8. Durkheim, anomie and strain
Chapter 9. The Chicago School, culture and subculsultures
Chapter 10. Interactionalism and labelling theory
Chapter 11. Control theories
Chapter 12. Radical and critical criminology
Chapter 13. Left anf right realism
Chapter 14. Contemporary classicism
Chapter 15. Feminist criminology
Chapter 16. Late modernity, governmentality and risk
Chapter 17. Victims, victimization and victimology
Chapter 18. White-collar and corporate crime
Chapter 19. Organised crime
Chapter 20. Violent and property crime
Chapter 21. Drugs and alcohol
Chapter 22. Penology and punishment
Chapter 23. Understanding criminal justice
Chapter 24. Crime prevention and community safety
Chapter 25. Police and policing
Chapter 26. Criminal courts and the court process
Chapter 27. Sentencing and non-custodial penalties
Chapter 28. Prisons and imprisonment
Chapter 29. Youth crime and youth justice
Chapter 30. Restorative justice
Chapter 31. Race, crime and justice
Chapter 32. Gender, crime and justice
Chapter 33. Criminal and forensic psychology
Chapter 34. Globalisation, terrorism and human rights
Chapter 35. Doing criminological research.
Index