Eamonn Carrabine - Criminology: a sociological introduction

Criminology

This new edition of Criminology: A sociological introduction builds on the success of the first edition and now includes two new chapters: Crime, Place and Space, and Histories of Crime.

More than a collection of orthodox thinking, this fully revised and updated textbook is also grounded in original research, and offers a clear and insightful introduction to the key topics studied in undergraduate criminology courses. It is essential reading for all students of criminology, and covers:

• Crime trends, starting with an historical overview and covering recent developments within specific crime patterns, including theft, violence, drugs, sex crime, environmental crime and state crime.
• The criminal justice system, including policing, prisons and community approaches.
• Ways of thinking about crime and control, from the origins of criminology to contemporary criminology.
• Different ways of theorizing the problems of deviance, deterrence, punishment and re-integration.
• Research methods used by criminologists.
• New topics within criminology, including terrorism, global crime, cybercrime, human rights, media and culture, space, emotion, health, social psychology and public criminology.

The book is packed with contemporary international case studies and has a lively two-colour text design to aid student revision. Specially designed to be accessible and user-friendly, each chapter includes:

• Introductory key issues summarizing the chapter content
• A clear and accessible structure
• Superb illustrations and tables
• A glossary of terms and key words highlighted in each chapter
• Supporting case studies and contemporary examples, highlighted throughout
• Critical thinking questions
• Annotated further reading

This new edition is also supported by a fully interactive companion website which offers exclusive access to British Crime Survey data, as well as other student and lecturer resources: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415464512.

Eamonn Carrabine, Pam Cox, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer and Nigel South all work in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Its topical and original approach makes this book definitely one of the most exciting introductions to criminology. By taking the implications of globalization for criminology seriously, it is also one of the very few that is truly international. All this, combined with a lively style of writing and a rich selection of web-pages for further reading, makes it ideal to show how interesting and socially relevant criminology can be.

Ren van Swaaningen, Professor of International and Comparative Criminology, Erasmus University, the Netherlands.

Criminology: A sociological introduction is that rare thing; a textbook that is attractive in the sense of being beautifully written and lavishly produced while not compromising on scholarly insight and rigour. Like the first edition, this new revised version does a remarkable job of pulling together a vast range of sociocriminological theories and topics, both orthodox and emerging. The addition of new chapters on Crime, Place and Space, and Histories of Crime support any claims to comprehensiveness. Although the books subtitle describes it as an introduction, this is a resource that students will take through their entire degree studies and will return to again and again. Authoritative, yet frequently provocative, Carrabine and his colleagues manage to convey both enthusiasm and expertise. In short, the team at Essex are to be congratulated for bringing to a crowded marketplace an introductory criminology text that is genuinely, and refreshingly, different.

Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK.

This second edition retains all the strengths of the first while adding important new work on contemporary issues. It gives students a thorough grounding not just in the traditional aspects of the discipline to do with crime, policing and punishment but in more current issues facing society like the war on terror and the impact of globalization. The critical thinking questions listed in each chapter encourage students to think and read more deeply than many textbooks while the Further study topics are invaluable resources for directing their reading and research.

Mary Bosworth, Reader in Criminology, University of Oxford, UK.

This exciting new edition of Criminology: A sociological introduction takes readers into new areas of debate, including terrorism, global crime, cybercrime, place, space, and emotions relating to crime. The book is written with great clarity and authority, and successfully navigates new criminological contours and sociological debates about crime. The authors combine fresh thinking about the established terrain of criminology with new questions about crime and responses to it, all the while grounding ideas in social theory and reflecting social change. This is an excellent resource!

Dr Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge, UK.

This is an unusually insightful and productive book precisely because of its sociological orientation and the specific expertise offered by each of its collective authors. The book is far-reaching in the topics covered, theoretically informed in its analysis, and user-friendly in its presentation. It presents key ideas and substantive issues in an exciting format, one that is guaranteed to stimulate, provoke and inform. This is not your ordinary criminological textbook.

Professor Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Criminology:A sociological introduction is a superb, thorough and engaging treatise on the emergence and debates in theory, methods, crime trends and the justice system. The book covers both the classic issues as well as the latest developments in understanding crime in the global context ranging from terrorism to cyber-crime and green crimes, and as such, has an international appeal. A must-read and terrific reference for students and scholars alike.

Professor Karen Laidler, University of Hong Kong.

Criminology

A sociological introduction

Second edition

Eamonn Carrabine, Pam Cox, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer and Nigel South

First published 2004

Second edition 2009

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2009 Eamonn Carrabine, Pam Cox, Maggy Lee, Ken Plummer and Nigel South

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Criminology : a sociological introduction/Eamonn Carrabine... [et al.].

2nd ed.

p. cm.

1. Criminology. 2. CrimeSociological aspects. I. Carrabine, Eamonn.

HV6025.C853 2009