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Criminological Perspectives John Muncie

Criminological Perspectives By John Muncie

Criminological Perspectives by John Muncie


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This book presents the most relevant readings from the diverse criminology literature, and provides students and academics with direct access to the main theories and perspectives, which underpin and shape the discipline of criminology.

It is the set book for The Open University course Crime, Order and Social Control (D315) .

Criminological Perspectives Summary

Criminological Perspectives: A Reader by John Muncie

This comprehensive collection of original readings is designed to reflect and re-present the numerous and diverse lines of theoretical enquiry that constitute criminology.

This volume consists of an accessible set of classic and contemporary readings that introduce students to the eclectic nature of `criminological knowledge'. In particular it focuses on: the origins of criminology; criminology's historic and continuing concern to discover the causes of crime; processes of criminalization and why it is that only certain harmful behaviours seem to be subject to criminal sanction; competing rationales for systems of crime control - from deterrence, just deserts and rehabilitation to crime prevention; issues of social control - from the formal processes of the criminal justice to regulation and surveillance in the community; and the future of criminology and its potential for further theoretical development.

It is the set book for The Open University course D315 Crime, Order and Social Control.

Criminological Perspectives Reviews

`Each section is preceded by a concise and objective account of the development of criminological thought. It includes many golden oldies along with an invaluable collection of the best work of recent decades.... the editors have produced an excellent source book for both academics and students, well worth recommending for purchase' - Reviewing Sociology

About John Muncie

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 Cultureand 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.

Table of Contents

Criminological Perspectives: An Introduction PART ONE: CRIMINOLOGICAL FORMATIONS Introduction On Crimes and Punishments - Cesare Beccaria Of the Development of the Propensity to Crime - Adolphe Quetelet The Criminal Type in Women and its Atavistic Origin - Cesare Lombroso and William Ferrero Causes of Criminal Behavior - Enrico Ferri Criminality and Economic Conditions - Willem Bonger The Normal and the Pathological - Emile Durkheim Law and Authority - Peter Kropotkin British Criminology before 1935 - David Garland PART TWO: THE PROBLEM OF CRIME I: CAUSATION Introduction Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Criminal Behavior - Sarnoff A Mednick, William F Gabrielli Jr and Barry Hutchings Personality Theory and the Problem of Criminality - H J Eysenck Explanations of Crime and Place - Anthony E Bottoms and Paul Wiles Crime and Consumption - Simon Field The Underclass - Charles Murray Relative Deprivation - John Lea and Jock Young Seductions and Repulsions of Crime - Jack Katz The Etiology of Female Crime - Dorie Klein Explaining Male Violence - Lynne Segal PART THREE: THE PROBLEM OF CRIME II: CRIMINALIZATION Introduction Techniques of Neutralization - Gresham M Sykes and David Matza Outsiders - Howard Becker Toward a Political Economy of Crime - William J Chambliss The New Criminology - Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young Crime, Power and Ideological Mystification - Steven Box Drifting into a Law and Order Society - Stuart Hall Criminalization and Racialization - Michael Keith The Theoretical and Political Priorities of Critical Criminology - Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick Critical Criminology and the Concept of Crime - Louk H C Hulsman PART FOUR: CRIME CONTROL I: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL POLICY Introduction On Deterrence - James Q Wilson Giving Criminals Their Just Deserts - Andrew von Hirsch The Value of Rehabilitation - Francis T Cullen and Karen E Gilbert `Situational' Crime Prevention - Ronald V G Clarke Theory and Practice Social Crime Prevention Strategies in a Market Society - Elliot Currie Abolitionism and Crime Control - Willem De Haan The New Penology - Malcolm M Feeley and Jonathan Simon PART FIVE: CRIME CONTROL II: SOCIAL CONTROL, DISCIPLINE AND REGULATION Introduction Crime, Authority and the Policeman-State - V A C Gatrell The Carceral - Michel Foucault The Punitive City - Stanley Cohen From the Panopticon to Disney World - Clifford D Shearing and Philip C Stenning The Development of Discipline The Power of Law - Carol Smart Reintegrative Shaming - John Braithwaite PART SIX: WITHIN AND BEYOND CRIMINOLOGY Introduction The Failure of Criminology - Jock Young The Need for a Radical Realism Feminist Approaches to Criminology or Postmodern Woman Meets Atavistic Man - Carol Smart Towards Transgression - Maureen Cain New Directions in Feminist Criminology Critical Women and Criminal Justice - Pat Carlen The Limits to, and Potential of, Feminist and Left Realist Perspectives Postmodernism and Critical Criminology - Alan Hunt Human Rights and Crimes of the State - Stanley Cohen The Culture of Denial The Fragmentation of Criminology - Richard Ericson and Kevin Carriere

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9780761950028
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Criminological Perspectives: A Reader by John Muncie
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Hardback
SAGE Publications Inc
19951221
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