
Textbook on Criminology
Katherine Williams(Author)
Oxford University Press
6th Edition
Published on 8. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-19-929031-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Textbook on Criminology offers an engaging and wide-ranging account of crime and criminology. It provides a clear and comprehensive consideration of the theoretical, practical, and political aspects of the subject, including the influence of physical, biological, psychological, and social factors on criminality. The text is ideal both for law students studying criminology modules, and for students studying criminological theory modules as part of their criminology degrees. The author deals with the major questions of criminology such as 'how do you define a crime?', 'why do people become criminals?', and 'how should we deal with criminals?'. Each question is studied from an objective and academic viewpoint and encourages greater social, political, and philosophical awareness of crime, criminals, and society's response to them. The text also maps out the changes in crime control and society's expectations in relation to crime control, and students will find the insightful chapter on terrorism and state violence to be of particular interest and relevance in light of recent global events.
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Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1054 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-929031-4 (9780199290314)
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Definitions, terminology and the criminal process; 3. Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime; 4. The extent of crime: a comparison of official and unofficial calculations; 5. Victims, survivors, and victimology; 6. Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminality; 7. Influences of biochemical factors and of the central and autonomic nervous systems on criminality; 8. Psychological theories of criminality; 9. Mental disorder and criminality; 10. Intelligence and learning; 11. The sociology of criminality; 12. Anomie, strain and juvenile subculture; 13. Control theories; 14. Labelling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology; 15. Conflict theories and radical criminologies; 16. Criminology and realism; 17. Positivist explanations of female criminality; 18. Feminist theories; 19. Terrorism and state violence; 20. Governance, risk and globalisation theories; 21. Envoi; USEFUL WEBSITES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX