What Is Criminology?

Zusatztext Over 36 chapters Bosworth and Hoyle's collection provides unsurpassed insight into the rocky, but nonetheless exciting, terrain to be negotiated in being a criminologist. It is essential reading for those already negotiating (and perhaps lost on) that terrain, and must surely become both a comprehensive and challenging resource for the orientation of newcomers. Informationen zum Autor Mary Bosworth joined the Oxford Centre for Criminology in 2006. Her major research interests are in punishment, incarceration and immigration detention with a particular focus on how matters of race, gender and citizenship shape the experience and nature of confinement. Carolyn Hoyle has been at the Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991. She has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including policing, domestic violence, restorative justice and the death penalty. Klappentext Critically examining criminology's conceptual foundations, aims, methods, boundaries, and impact, this collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading international criminologists examines the current state of the discipline. It is essential reading for all academics and advanced students of criminology. Zusammenfassung Critically examining criminology's conceptual foundations, aims, methods, boundaries, and impact, this collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading international criminologists examines the current state of the discipline. It is essential reading for all academics and advanced students of criminology.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Bosworth, Mary/ Hoyle Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle
• Assisted by: Dr Mary Bosworth (Editor), Mary Bosworth (Editor), Carolyn Hoyle (Editor), Hoyle Carolyn (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2011
• EAN: 9780199571826
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957182-6
• No. of pages: 588
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 254 mm x 39 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Legal aspects of criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology: legal aspects