| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Series |
The Basics |
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Basics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 What is criminology?; Introduction; What is crime?; The emergence of criminology as a discipline: The European connection; The criminological other; The development of criminology as a discipline: The American connection; Summary; Victimology: The holocaust connection?; The victimological other; Summary; Criminology, criminological perspectives, and Harold Shipman; Psychiatry and crime: inside the subconscious mind; Psychology and crime: The search for individual differences |
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Sociology: Outside the criminal mindFeminism, serial killers, and masculinity; Summary: What have we learned?; Conclusion: Thinking critically; Exercise; Recommendations for further reading; 2 Counting crime; Introduction; Official information about crime: Criminal statistics; The three 'R's: Recognising, reporting, and recording; Official information about crime: Criminal victimisation statistics; The fourth 'R': The respondent; Criminological research knowledge; Making sense of the 'fear of crime': Meaning and understanding; Self-report studies; Other records; Summary |
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Counting 'invisible' crimesThe problem of comparison; The problem of attrition and the 'justice gap'; Summary and conclusion; Exercise; Recommendations for further reading; 3 How much crime? Challenging myths about crime, offenders, and victims; Introduction; Dispelling myths about crime; Crime and everyday life; Felson's fallacies; How much crime?; The nature and extent of crime: Ordinary crime-'crime of the streets'; How much crime? Crime behind closed doors; The nature and extent of crime: 'Crime of the suites'; Example 1: The Bhopal disaster 1984 |
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Example 2: The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib prisonExample 3: The Rwandan genocide 1994; Summary and Conclusion; Exercise; Recommendations for further reading; 4 The search for criminological explanation; Introduction; A word on theory and explanation; Rational choice theory; Social control theory; Relative deprivation; How do these different theories perform in relation to the evidence?; Looking at the evidence: The question of gender; Hegemonic masculinity and crime; Looking at the evidence: Finding a place for state crime?; A word on cultural criminology; Summary and conclusion |
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ExerciseSuggestions for further reading; 5 Thinking about the victim of crime; Introduction; What does the term 'victim' mean?; Understanding the patterning of criminal victimisation; Lifestyle and criminal victimisation; Patriarchy and criminal victimisation; Hegemonic masculinity and criminal victimisation; Understanding the impact of crime; Victims and the criminal justice process; Why do some victims get more attention than others?; Hate crime and genocide; Is there scope for a cultural victimology?; Summary and conclusion; Exercise; Recommendations for further reading |
| Notes |
6 Crime, power, and global relations: An introduction to critical criminology |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317621911 |
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1317621913 |
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