Crime & Society in Britain, 2nd edition


By Hazel Croall
May 2011
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN 9781405873352
476 Pages, Illustrated
$72.50 Paper Original


Crime continues to be a major area of public policy and debate, and societies expend huge amounts of intellectual and financial capital attempting to measure and understand it. The second edition of this highly respected text provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in Britain, helping you to understand and critically evaluate the key issues. It is designed particularly for students coming to the subject for the first time but also those who want to dig deeper into the issues for more advanced study.

Crime and Society is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social policy and of key interest more widely across the social sciences.

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: CRIME AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER 2: CRIME AND THE MEDIA

CHAPTER 3: FINDING OUT ABOUT CRIME

CHAPTER 4: UNDERSTANDING CRIME: CRIME, CULTURE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

CHAPTER 5: UNDERSTANDING CRIME: FROM EXPLAINING TO CONTROLLING CRIME IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT.

CHAPTER 6: THE VICTIMS OF CRIME

CHAPTER 7: SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES AND CRIME

CHAPTER 8: AGE AND CRIME

CHAPTER 9: GENDER AND CRIME

CHAPTER 10: RACE, ETHNICITY AND CRIME

CHAPTER 11: VIOLENT CRIME

CHAPTER 12: SEX CRIME

CHAPTER 13: PROPERTY CRIME

CHAPTER 14: ORGANIZED CRIME

CHAPTER 15: WHITE COLLAR AND CORPORATE CRIME

CHAPTER 16: CRIME AND THE ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 17: STATE CRIME

CHAPTER 18:CONCLUSION


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