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Informationen zum Autor John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal. Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Culture and is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters . He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology , Critical Social Policy , the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology . Klappentext This fully revised and updated Second Edition of the bestselling text offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in the study of crime.Praise for the First Edition: `By providing accessible and readable introductions to often neglected aspects of crime, the volume is a welcome change from texts focusing on the more conventionally constructed problems of juvenile crime, theft and violent crime' - Reviewing Sociology Zusammenfassung This fully revised and updated Second Edition of the bestselling text offers a comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in the study of crime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - John Muncie and Eugene McLaughlin The Construction and Deconstruction of Crime - John Muncie The Pleasures of Crime - John Clarke Interrogating the Detective Story Crime, Order and Historical Change - Jim Sharpe Dangerous Places - Peggotty Graham and John Clarke Crime and the City Dangerous Places - Ester Saraga The Family as a Site of Crime Good or Bad Business? - Gordon Hughes and Mary Langan Exploring Corporate and Organized Crime Political Violence, Terrorism and the States of Fear - Eugene McLaughlin ...
