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CRIMINOLOGY

Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and institutions central to the study of crime in contemporary society.

Topics covered in this easy-to-use AZ guide include:

• policing, sentencing and the justice system;
• types of crime, including corporate crime, cybercrime, sex and hate crimes;
• feminist, Marxist and cultural approaches to criminology
• terrorism, state crime, war crimes and human rights;
• social issues such as antisocial behaviour, domestic violence and pornography;
• criminal psychology and deviance.

Fully cross-referenced, with extensive suggestions for further reading and in-depth study of the topics discussed, this is an essential reference guide for students of criminology at all levels.

Martin OBrien is Reader in Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author, with Sue Penna, of Theorising Welfare: Enlightenment and Modern Society (1998), and editor of Integrating and Articulating Environments: A Challenge for Northern and Southern Europe (2003).

Majid Yar is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Keele University He has published widely in the areas of social and political theory criminology continental philosophy, cultural analysis and philosophy of social science, and is the author of Cybercrime and Society (2006).

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CRIMINOLOGY

The Key Concepts

Martin OBrien and Majid Yar

First published 2008
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2008 Martin OBrien and Majid Yar

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
OBrien, Martin, 1957
Criminology: the key concepts / Martin OBrien and Majid Yar.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Criminology. I. Yar, Majid. II. Title.
HV6025.O27 2008
364dc22
2007050909

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LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS

Actuarial justice

Administrative criminology

Alienation

Antisocial behaviour

Biological criminology

Chicago School criminology

Class

Classical criminology

Community

Community crime prevention and community safety

Community sentences and community punishments

Constitutive criminology

Corporate crime

Crime and deviance

Crime data

Crime mapping

Criminal careers

Criminal justice system

Criminal psychology

Critical criminology

Cultural criminology

Cultural transmission

Cybercrime

Developmental criminology

Deviance amplification

Differential association

Discourse

Drug crime

Durkheimian criminology

Environmental crime

Environmental criminology

Family crime

Feminism and criminology

Gangs

Gender

Governance and governmentality

Green criminology

Hate crime

Hedonism

Hegemony

Homophobia

Human rights

Idealism

Identity

Ideology

Intellectual property crime

Justice

Labelling perspectives

Marxist criminology

Mass media

Moral panic

Net-widening

New media

Norms

Obscenity and pornography

Organised crime

Peace-making criminology

Policing and the police

Positivist criminology

Postmodernity/postmodernism

Prisons and imprisonment

Property crime

Punishment

Racism

Rational choice

Realism

Restorative justice

Risk

Routine activity theories

Sex crimes

Sexism

Social control

Social control perspectives

Social exclusion

Social harm

Socialisation

State, the

State crime

Street crime

Subcultural criminologies

Surveillance

Techniques of neutralisation

Terrorism

Underclass

Victimology

Violent crime

War crimes

White-collar crime

Youth crime

Zero tolerance

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