Stanley Cohen has been at the center of these debates in Britain and the United States. This volume is a selection of his essays, written over the past fifteen years, which contribute to and comment upon the major theoretical conflicts in criminology during this period. Though associated with the "new" or radical criminology, Cohen has always been the first to point out its limitations particularly in translating its theoretical claims into real world applications.
His essays cove a wide range of topics-political crime, the nature of individual responsibility, the implications of new theories for social work practice, models of crime used in the Third World, banditry and rebellion, and the decentralization of social control. Also included is a previously unpublished paper on how radical social movements such as feminism deal with criminal law.
Many criminology textbooks present particular theories or research findings. This book uniquely reviews the main debates of the last two decades about just what the role and scope of the subject should be. This third edition includes: A new chapter on politics, reflecting the ever increasing coverage of political influence and decision making on criminology courses New and updated crime data and analysis of trends, plus new content on recent events such as the Volkswagen scandal, the latest developments on historic child abuse, as well as extended coverage throughout of the English riots A fully revised and updated companion website, including exam, review and multiple choice questions, a live Twitter feed from the author providing links to media and academic coverage of events related to the concepts covered in the book, together with links to a dedicated textbook Facebook page Fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field and extensively illustrated, this authoritative text, written by a leading criminologist and experienced lecturer, is essential reading for all students of Criminology and related fields.
This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country. This text connects contemporary crime problems with historical legacies such as the impact of colonialism and the influence of ethno-nationalism and authoritarianism in the region. Conflict and tension created by legal pluralism is illustrated via three case studies exploring apostasy, Islamic rehabilitation centres, and retention and use of the death penalty.
In addition to a critique of contemporary Malaysian criminological scholarship, Towards a Malaysian Criminology suggests a composite, critical criminological approach to guide future research. This approach draws on theoretical traditions in critical race theory, critical realism, ultra-realism and the emerging field of Islamic critical realism. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the discipline, this text will appeal to scholars of criminology, sociology, law, politics and Islamic theology.
It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it easier for students to relate theory to reality. Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences moves readers beyond a commonsense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies. It includes new sources that assess the empirical status of the major theories, as well as updated coverage of crime control policies and their connection to criminological theory.
Order using bundle ISBN Sign in to the password-protected Instructor Teaching Site at study. Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical territory that is clearly needed but has yet to be developed.
With the exception of a handful of isolated works in the mid-twentieth century, theory and research on victimization did not come into its own until the late s with the articulation of lifestyle and routine activity theories. Research conducted within this tradition continues to be an important part of the overall criminological enterprise, and a large body of empirical knowledge has been generated. Nevertheless, theoretical advances in the study of victimization have largely stalled within the field of criminology.
Indeed, little in the way of new theoretical headway has been made in well over a decade. This is an ideal time to revitalize victimization theory, and this volume does just that. It is an ambitious project that will hopefully reignite the kinds of theoretical discussions that once held the attention of the field.
The work included here will shape the future of victimization theory and research in years to come. This volume should be of interest to a wide range of criminologists and have the potential to be used in graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses.
This is an essential introduction to undergraduate studies in criminology. Short, clear and concise, it provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes covered on your criminology course. The second edition provides: Summaries of key course content, including new sections on race and ethnicity, cybercrime, ordinary crime, state crime, global and comparative criminology, green criminology and zemiology A helpful study skills section with extensive advice on how to write essays and pass exams, including new sections on how to avoid plagiarism and how to find, read and use journal articles Recent international case studies drawn from the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa and The United States An all new companion website providing guides to further reading and links to relevant blogs, journal articles and useful websites Criminology: The Essentials is an indispensible learning tool.
As well as mapping out course content in a coherent and engaging way, it offers helpful hints and tips for getting the most out of your studies. Written by an internationally renowned authority in the field, the founder of the highly regarded School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the book draws heavily on research done on three Continents: North America, Europe and Australia, to trace the discipline's historical evolution, its current problems, disappointing achievements, and promising trends.
It concludes with a prospective look at the future of criminology and criminology of the future. Although the perspective is critical, the author's critique is constructive and he expresses a healthy optimism about the discipline's future and offers several guidelines as to how current deficiencies could be remedied and present gaps could be addressed.
First published in This series is dedicated to creative, scholarly work in criminal justice and criminology. Moreover, we ask the authors to emphasize readability. In this anthology Martin Schwartz and Dragan Milovanovic have managed to produce a work that is a combination of both.
They also did this in the face of difficulties presented by a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodologies. The subject matter of this anthology-race, gender, and class-is a critical one for criminology. Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship. DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime.
This three-volume work offers a comprehensive review of the pivotal concepts, measures, theories, and practices that comprise criminology and criminal justice. No longer just a subtopic of sociology, criminology has become an independent academic field of study that incorporates scholarship from numerous disciplines including psychology, political science, behavioral science, law, economics, public health, family studies, social work, and many others.
The three-volume Encyclopedia of Criminology presents the latest research as well as the traditional topics which reflect the field's multidisciplinary nature in a single, authoritative reference work. More than alphabetically arranged entries by the leading authorities in the discipline comprise this definitive, international resource. The pivotal concepts, measures, theories, and practices of the field are addressed with an emphasis on comparative criminology and criminal justice.
While the primary focus of the work is on American criminology and contemporary criminal justice in the United States, extensive global coverage of other nations' justice systems is included, and the increasing international nature of crime is explored thoroughly. Providing the most up-to-date scholarship in addition to the traditional theories on criminology, the Encyclopedia of Criminology is the essential one-stop reference for students and scholars alike to explore the broad expanse of this multidisciplinary field.
This book provides a lively, concise and definitive introduction to the study of the causes of crime. Authoritative yet accessible, it offers a guide to the historical development of criminology as an academic discipline and in doing so: presents an overview of a range of different theories of crime, including classical, biological, psychological and sociological approaches analyses the strengths and weaknesses of each theory discussed provides chapter overview boxes and key summary points helps you to take your studies further with self-study tasks and suggestions for further reading.
In covering key theoretical positions and placing them in their historical context, Criminological Theory in Context is perfect for students taking introductory courses in criminological theory. Skip to content Close Menu Contact.
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The latter is seen as a check on the romantic tendencies in some cultural criminology which might otherwise downplay the harmful effects of crime on the victim and the necessity to foreground the role of the state and social class. But the backdrop to these various discussions is the enterprise of renewal and continu- ation of the tradition of left realism and this will be the focus here.
There are different ways of approaching such a task. One is to re-elaborate and update the core concepts of the tradition and critically apply them to new circumstances. Another is to downplay the original contributions and make way for a blood transfusion from a new set of concepts from outside the existing paradigm.
Matthews rather tends towards the latter approach. This approach makes two key assumptions. First, that classic left realism was concep- tually weak. It is certainly true that as left realists during the s and s we failed to produce a major theoretical statement of the approach before individually moving on to other activities.
The second assumption is that Critical Realism, with its particular focus on epistemology and methodology, is an adequate philosophical standpoint from which to reinvigorate left realism. But is the problem with left realism really a need for firmer epistemological and methodological foundations?
Many of the more interesting things that Matthews has to say about substantive criminological theory or recent devel- opments in social and political structure push back towards the first approach: that of re-elaboration of concepts already implicit in classic left realism.
There is space here for just a few examples. Early left realism—during the latter half of thes—was indeed a political project.
But as we all know, politics is theory and theory is political. Among the concepts at the forefront of left realism was democracy: control of policing policy and other forms of social control by local communities armed with the data from focused local victimization surveys. Matthews does not dwell on this theme in detail, but in his final chapter he includes a very brief discussion of the growing regulation of sub-criminal activities by such means as Anti-Social Behaviour Orders ASBOs or similar.
This is not an uncontroversial argument, but the point is that old style left realism would surely argue that only a process of community reintegration through democratic control of policing and other control resources could enable such measures to be part of an integrative, rather than a punitive, repressive process.
It would have been interesting to see this argument developed further and some connections made with existing debates. But this would have pushed further into the arena of substantive social theory and arguably away from critical realist phi- losophy and its focus on epistemology.
It is, however, heavily implied in several discussions. Thus in an interesting critique of rational choice and routine activities theory, he argues that rational choice by the offender is only understandable as one aspect of a more com- plex totality involving the culture of social control and learning which affects motivation and emotions. This is precisely one of the major uses of the square of crime: to locate the offender and their motivations within a complex of interactions including, as Matthews emphasizes, both the state and social class.
An opportunity is missed here to restate and reinforce this classic left realist theme rather than borrowing concepts from elsewhere. But where do these concepts come from? Again, perhaps there is less need to appropriate a new set of methodological insights than to reinvigorate the core concepts already available in left realism.
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