Sociology of Crime

Informationen zum Autor Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Stephen Hester, University of Wales, Bangor. Zusammenfassung The authors take three particular sociological perspectives! and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology! highlighting the ways that crime is! first and foremost! a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 Sociology and crime 2 Constructing criminal law 3 Criminalization and domination 4 Ethnomethodology's law 5 Policing as symbolic interaction 6 The ethnomethodology of policing 7 The political economy of policing 8 Discipline, domination and criminal justice 9 Justice and symbolic interaction 10 Ethnomethodology in court 11 Crime and punishment 12 The functions of crime control

Product details

• Authors: Eglin, Peter Eglin, Peter Hester Eglin, Eglin Peter, Stephen Hester
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138170445
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17044-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology