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Crime continues to be a major area of public policy and debate, and societies expend huge amounts of intellectual and financial capital attempting to measure and understand it. The second edition of this highly respected text provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in Britain, helping you to understand and critically evaluate the key issues. It is designed particularly for students coming to the subject for the first time but also those who want to dig deeper into the issues for more advanced study.
Crime and Society is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social policy and of key interest more widely across the social sciences.
List of contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: CRIME AND SOCIETY
CHAPTER 2: CRIME AND THE MEDIA
CHAPTER 3: FINDING OUT ABOUT CRIME
CHAPTER 4: UNDERSTANDING CRIME: CRIME, CULTURE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
CHAPTER 5: UNDERSTANDING CRIME: FROM EXPLAINING TO CONTROLLING CRIME IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT.
CHAPTER 6: THE VICTIMS OF CRIME
CHAPTER 7: SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES AND CRIME
CHAPTER 8: AGE AND CRIME
CHAPTER 9: GENDER AND CRIME
CHAPTER 10: RACE, ETHNICITY AND CRIME
CHAPTER 11: VIOLENT CRIME
CHAPTER 12: SEX CRIME
CHAPTER 13: PROPERTY CRIME
CHAPTER 14: ORGANIZED CRIME
CHAPTER 15: WHITE COLLAR AND CORPORATE CRIME
CHAPTER 16: CRIME AND THE ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 17: STATE CRIME
CHAPTER 18:CONCLUSION
About the author
Hazel Croall is Professor Emerita at Glasgow Caledonian University where she set up the B.A. (Hons) programme in Criminology and was Professor of Criminology until December 2009.
Summary
An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in Britain, helping you to understand and critically evaluate the key issues.
