Subjects:

Criminology

Contents:

CRIMINOLOGY: HISTORY AND THEORY

1. Sociological Theories of Crime

2. Criminal Psychology

3. Contemporary Landscapes of Crime, Order and Control: Governance, Risk, and Globalization

4. Cultural Criminology

5. Historical perspectives on Crime

6. Comparing Criminal Justice

7. Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME AND CRIME CONTROL

8. Legal Constructions of Crime

9. No Turning Back: the Politics of Law and Order into the Millennium

10. Crime data and statistics

11. Media Made Criminality: the Representation of Crime in the Mass Media

DIMENSIONS OF CRIME

12. Political Economy, Crime, and Criminal Justice

13. Gender and Crime

14. Ethnicities, Racism, Crime, and Criminal Justice

15. Victims, Victimization and Criminal Justice

16. Mentally Disordered Offenders, Mental Health, and Crime

17. Place, Space, Crime and Disorder

18. Youth Crime and Youth Culture

19. Childhood Risk Factors and Risk-Focussed Prevention

20. Crime and the Life Course

FORMS OF CRIME

21. Violent Crime

22. White-Collar and Corporate Crime

23. Organizing Serious, Transnational, and Terrorist Crimes

24. Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime

REACTIONS TO CRIME

25. The Goverance of Security: Pluralization, Provatization, and Polarization in Crime Control

26. Crime Prevention and Community Safety

27. Policing and the Police

28. From Suspect to Trial

29. Sentencing

30. Youth Justice

31. Community Penalties: Probation, 'What Works' and Offender Management

32. Imprisonment: An Expanding Scene

The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text on the subject, the fourth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive references to aid further research.

In addition to the history of the discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book provides up-to-date reviews of diverse topics as the criminal justice process, race and gender, crime statistics, and the media and crime. The fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated and is essential reading for all teachers and students of criminology and an indispensable sourcebook for professionals.

New to this edition:-

• Fully updated to include discussion and analysis of all new developments, including a new chapter on imprisonment, the changing penal system
• New two colour text design
• Fully customisable test bank of questions linked directly to the book enabling lecturers to assess their students' learning.

• Test bank of questions enabling lecturers to test their students' progress and understanding
• Web links to key criminological resources allowing students to further research the subject
• Notes on the Contributors
• Editors' Introduction to the 4th edition