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Author(s): Sandra Walklate
ISBN(s): 9780335221233, 0335221238
Edition: 3
File Details: PDF, 7.98 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0335221238 
ISBN 13: 9780335221233
Author: Sandra Walklate

“Provides a very clear, easily readable introduction to the wide range of criminological theories.”Anne Rees, University of Portsmouth, UK What does contemporary criminological theory look like? What impact, if any, does it have on policy?The new edition of this bestselling text updates a key title in the Crime and Justice series, whilst maintaining it’s trademark theory-intensive approach to Criminology. In this third edition, the author pays particular attention to the development of the policy agenda under New Labour. The book examines the development of criminological theory over the past twenty five years, with detailed analysis of the relationship between criminological theorizing, criminal justice, social justice, and politics. It also provides: A detailed examination of the role of the media in relation to the fear of crime Expanded discussion of classical criminology, adding discussion of cultural criminology Special reference to young people and victims of crime A critical consideration of current policies concerned with rebalancing the criminal justice system Increased emphasis on issues related to risk and terrorism A comprehensive update of policy and research throughoutUnderstanding Criminology is key reading for students who are new to the discipline, but also contains the rigourous analysis required by all levels of undergraduate student.

Understanding Criminology 3rd Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: understanding some key features of criminology
Some domain assumptions within criminology as a discipline
Criminology and modernity
How to define the criminal
What influences talk about crime?
What do we know about crime?
What is known about criminal victimization?
Criminology, politics and criminal justice policy
Conclusion: what are the key features of criminology?
Further reading
Chapter 2 Perspectives in criminological theory
The behaviour of criminals
The criminality of behaviour
The criminality of the state
Conclusion
Further reading
Chapter 3 Understanding ‘right realism’
Socio-biological explanations: the work of Wilson and Herrnstein
Rational choice theory
The routine activity approach
Administrative criminology
Right realism: a critique
Ways of thinking about the family and crime
Conclusion
Further reading
Chapter 4 Understanding ‘left realism’
What is ‘left realism’?
Left realism UK style: a critique
Left realism US style
The modernist dilemma
Left realism and New Labour: politics, policy and process
Conclusion
Further reading
Chapter 5 Gendering the criminal
The gender blindness of criminology
Feminism and criminology
Feminisms and criminology: contradictions in terms?
Ways of thinking about men within criminology
Sex role theory and criminology
Categorical theory and criminology
Doing gender as criminology
Biography and the psychoanalytical turn
Reflections on masculinity and criminology
Summary: gendering the criminal or gendering criminology?
Conclusion
Further reading
Chapter 6 Crime, politics and welfare
Understanding the welfare state
Why it is important to understand the relationship between the citizen and the state
New Labour, new policies? Young people and crime
Young people, crime and antisocial behaviour
Conclusion: questions for criminology
Further reading
Chapter 7 Criminal victimization, politics and welfare
What is victimology?
A challenging victimology?
Rebalancing the criminal justice system
Feminism, policy and violence
Ethnicity and hate crimes
Conclusion: criminal victimization and social responsibility
Further reading
Chapter 8 Conclusions: new directions for criminology?
Positivism, modernism and gender
A word on cultural criminology
Gender, race and class
Criminology and risk
Criminology and trust
Criminology, the citizen and the state
Criminology, political economy and social capital

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