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Part outline 1 Understanding crime and criminology 2 Crime and punishment in history 3 Crime data and crime trends 4 Crime and the media 5 The politics of crime and its control Comprehensive in its coverage and written in a manner that is accessible to all students, the third edition of Criminology underlines why it is the undergraduate textbook. The classic sections have been complemented by new chapters that help students understand how crime control does not take place in a vacuum (The Politics of Crime and its Control), as well as encouraging students to think critically about the crime information we consume (Crime Data and Crime Trends). The most valuable aspect of the text is how core research methods concepts are provided in the same books as criminological content, which helps students to see, and understand, the crucial link between theory and research. Without doubt, this textbook provides the starting point for any criminological discussion.

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International Criminal Court International Criminal Police Commission International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) International Crime Victim Survey Independent Police Complaints Commission Intensive Supervision and Support Programme In response to exciting developments in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, a number of criminologists have embraced the position that criminal behaviour is the product of biological, psychological, and sociological factors operating together in complex ways. They have come to realize that if they are to capture the dynamic nature of criminal behaviour then they must span multiple levels of analysis and thus multiple disciplines. The explosion of interest in this field of biosocial criminology over the past ten years means that the time is ripe for this research companion aimed at graduate students and scholars, giving them an essential overview of the current state of research in the field. The authors are experts in a variety of disciplines (sociology, psychology, biology, criminal justice, and neuroscience), but they all have in common a strong interest in criminal behaviour. This unique book is essential and accessible reading for all students and scholars in the field.Crime has no ontological reality - The category 'crime' has no reality beyond the application of the term to particular acts. The acts themselves are not intrinsically criminal. Thus, to kill someone during peacetime may well be treated as murder; to do so on a battlefield will most likely not. We return to this below. Sociological criminology and the continued invisibility of women Development of modern feminist criminology Female emancipation and crime Carol Smart and feminist criminology Contemporary feminist criminology Understanding women’s involvement in crime Women, prison and punishment The nature of women’s imprisonment Criminalisation of women A feminist methodology? Feminist victimology Assessing feminist criminology Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Comprehensive in its coverage and written in a manner that is accessible to all students, the third edition of Criminology underlines why it is the undergraduate textbook. The classic sections have been complemented by new chapters that help students understand how crime control does not take place in a vacuum (The Politics of Crime and its Control), as well as encouraging students to think critically about the crime information we consume (Crime Data and Crime Trends). The most valuable aspect of the text is how core research methods concepts are provided in the same books as criminological content, which helps students to see, and understand, the crucial link between theory and research. Without doubt, this textbook provides the starting point for any criminological discussion." Royal College of Psychiatrists Regional Crime Squad Randomised Controlled Trial Reintegrative Shaming Experiment Restorative Justice Regional Offender Manager Royal Ulster Constabulary (see also PSNI) The ‘war on drugs’ Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis Penal populism in the UK Coalition and post-Coalition politics Conclusion Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites

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Victimisation surveys The Crime Survey for England and Wales Local crime surveys Other victimisation surveys Assessing victimisation surveys Comparing official statistics and victimisation surveys Crime trends Data on offenders Self-report studies Assessing the self-report method Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods and events that underpin the subject and form the basis for all undergraduate degree courses and modules in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Discusses how the study of trends in crime can be used to inform preventative policy and criminal justice.Realist criminology Introduction Left realism The critique of ‘left idealism’ The nature of left realism What Is To Be Done about Law & Order? Left realism and method Assessing left realism Right realism Thinking about Crime Distinguishing left and right realism Wilson and Herrnstein Murray and the ‘underclass’ Assessing right realism Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Victims of white-collar crime The extent of white-collar crime The impact of white-collar crime Understanding impact: the qualitative dimension Controlling white-collar crime Regulating white-collar crime Self-regulation Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Feminist criminology Introduction Early criminology and the female offender Lombroso and Ferrero W.I. Thomas and Otto Pollak Edwin Sutherland – someone who you will get to meet regularly throughout this book – defined criminology as the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and of society’s reaction to the breaking of laws. Whilst this is by no means a comprehensive definition of criminology – criminologists may be interested, for example, in various forms of behaviour that do not involve the breaking of laws but, nevertheless, bring forth some form of social sanction – it does help point us in the direction of what are arguably the three great tributaries that make up the subject: Tim Newburn is Professor of Social Policy and Criminology at the London School of Economics. He is a former President of the British Society of Criminology (2005- 08) and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2005. In 2009, together with two colleagues, he was appointed Official Historian on Criminal Justice. He is a member of the Home Office's Scientific Advisory Committee and numerous other advisory bodies. He is the founding editor of

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The 'governmental project' - empirical studies of the administration of justice; the working of prisons, police and the measurement of crime. Presents an outline of major perspectives and traditions that are found in criminology. This book includes such topics as Anomie theory; Classical criminology; Critical criminology; Labeling theory; Positivism; Post-modernism; and, Subcultural theory. It is suitable for those in the field of criminology.Introduction Durkheim and criminology Durkheim and social change Durkheim, suicide and anomie Assessing Durkheim Merton and anomie Anomie and the ‘American dream’ Assessing Merton’s anomie theory Later strain theory Cloward and Ohlin General strain theory Messner and Rosenfeld Assessing strain theory Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Prisons and imprisonment The rise of the prison Imprisonment in Britain Prison security Strangeways and Woolf Trends in imprisonment Imprisonment and penal politics International trends Capital punishment The prison system Types of prison Private prisons Life on the inside Prisoners Incarceration and social exclusion Violence in prison Prison officers Release from prison Governance, accountability and human rights Independent inspection Grievance or complaints procedures Human rights and imprisonment Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Volunteers in the criminal justice system Criminal justice in Scotland Is it really a system? The criminal justice process Fixed penalty notices Expenditure and employment Management and oversight in criminal justice New public management Youth Justice Board Inspectorates Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary for England, Wales and Northern Ireland (HMIC) Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales (HMIP) Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales (HMI Probation) Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) Politics and criminal justice reform Understanding criminal justice Adversarial versus inquisitorial systems Due process versus crime control Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Ethnicity and victimisation Victimisation and risk Fear of crime Racist hate crimes Racist offenders Community, conflict and cohesion Ethnicity and offending Self-reported offending Anti-social behaviour Drug use Experience of the criminal justice system Stop and search Racism and stop and search Ethnicity and policing From Scarman to Lawrence Cautioning, arrest and sentencing Ethnicity and imprisonment Treatment in custody Deaths in custody Views of the criminal justice system Minority representation in the criminal justice system Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites

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Introduction Types of sentence Discharges Fines and other financial penalties Community punishment The community rehabilitation order The community punishment order The community order The suspended sentence of imprisonment Sentencing policy The Criminal Justice Act 1991 Sentencing reform after the 1991 Act The Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 Sentencing reform under New Labour The Auld Review of Criminal Courts The Halliday Review Justice for All Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sentencing reform under the Coalition government Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 Trends in non-custodial sentencing Probation Punishment in the community A new chapter on politics, reflecting the ever increasing coverage of political influence and decision making on criminology courses Biological positivism Introduction Genetic factors Eugenics and ‘feeble-mindedness’ Twin studies Adoption Chromosomal anomalies Genetics and offending Biochemical factors Central nervous system ADHD and brain dysfunction Neurotransmitters Laterality Autonomic nervous system Hormones/testosterone Nutrition Assessing biological positivism Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Contemporary classicism Introduction Rational choice theory Clarke and Cornish Bounded rationality Crime scripts Routine activity theory Routine activity and crime trends Routine activity theory elaborated Situational crime prevention Defensible space and problem-oriented policing Problem-oriented policing Crime and opportunity Crime science Assessing contemporary classicism Questions for further discussion Further reading WebsitesGlobalisation, terrorism and human rights Globalisation Globalisation and criminology Criminalising migration Terrorism What is terrorism? Terrorism in Britain The new international terrorism Special powers for special circumstances? Control orders and the PATRIOT Act Terrorism and the ‘new wars’ Private military industry Privatised security in Iraq State crime Genocide Cambodia Rwanda Bosnia War as crime and war crimes Human rights Origins of human rights Human rights in the twentieth century Human rights in Britain The Human Rights Act 1998 The impact of the Human Rights Act Criminology and human rights Dealing with human rights abuses Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites