Crime and Social Theory

What can social theory really teach us about crime in the world today? This book gives an overview of key theoretical debates alongside explanations of cutting edge research to show how abstract thought relates to everyday experience. Looking at global crime to street crime, it brings together the most significant work on crime and social theory.

About the author

Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (co-authored, 2002), Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (2004), and Crime, Culture and the Media (2008), while his co-authored textbook Criminology: A Sociological Introduction is now in its third edition.

Summary

What can social theory really teach us about crime in the world today? This book gives an overview of key theoretical debates alongside explanations of cutting edge research to show how abstract thought relates to everyday experience. Looking at global crime to street crime, it brings together the most significant work on crime and social theory.

Product details

• Authors: Eamonn Carrabine
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.05.2017
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology
• EAN: 9780230290884
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29088-4
• Pages: 196
• Series: Themes in Social Theory; Themes in Social Theory > 2
• Subjects: Strafrecht, Soziologie, Kriminologie, B, Criminology, Law and Criminology, Criminological Theory, Criminology Theory