Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm
Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-926440-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF ALL THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF CRIME AND CRIMINOLOGY FOUND ON COURSESKey Features:
- Includes further reading and integrated questions at the end of chapters
- Includes a new chapter on terrorism and state violence
Description:
Now in its fifth edition Kate Williams' Textbook on Criminology continues to provide a comprehensive approach and overview of the subject of Criminology as a whole. Including a new chapter on State and Terrorism and major revisions to several other chapters, this new edition aims to give the reader guidelines on the issues at stake and help on how to best find the answers using biological, psychological and sociological theories.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 1-84174-195-7 2001
Contents:
Introduction Definitions, Terminology and the Criminal Process
Public Conceptions and Misconceptions of Crime
The Extent of Crime:
A Comparison of Official and Unofficial Calculations
Victims, Victimisations and Victimology
Influences of Physical Factors and Genetics of Criminality
Influences of Biochemical Factors and of the Central and Autonomic Nervous Systems on Criminality
Psychological Theories of Criminality
Mental Disorder and Criminality
Intelligence and Learning
The Sociology of Criminality
Anomie, Strain and Juvenile Subculture
Control Theories
Labelling, Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
Conflict Theories and Radical Criminologies
Criminology and Realism
Positivist Explanations of Female Criminality
Women's Liberation and Feminist Theories
Governance, Risk and Globalisation Theories
Terrorism and its Control
Envoi
Zielgruppe
Undergraduate Criminology courses in Law and Sociology departments
