| Description |
xi, 652 pages ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Crime and criminality. 1. Doing criminology -- 2. Crime and the media -- 3. Traditional criminological theory -- 4. Mainstream perspectives -- 5. Challenges to criminological orthodoxies -- 6. Victims and victimology -- 7. Crime and social inequality -- 8. Crime and social differences -- 9. Crimes against property -- 10. Crimes against the person -- 11. Crimes against convention -- 12. Crimes of the powerful -- 13. Transnational crimes and global criminology -- Pt. 2: Institutions of criminal justice. 14. Police roles and techniques -- 15. Different policing for different people -- 16. Forensic studies -- 17. Law and the legal profession -- 18. Courts and court processes -- 19. Access and alternatives to justice -- 20. Judicial decisions and sentencing -- 21. Punishment and penalty --22. Incarceration and prisonisation -- 23. Community corrections -- 24. Recidivism, rehabilitation and restorative justice -- 25. Crime prevention |
| Summary |
Summary: "An introductory text that includes everything students need to know as they begin their study of crime and criminology. Comprehensive coverage of the key first year topic areas: What is Crime/Types of Crime - Crime Theory - Systems and Institutions of Crime - Crime and Social Inequality and Difference - Criminal Justice"--Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Crime & criminology (Australia) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 614-644) and index |
| Subject |
Crime -- Australia.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.
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Criminology -- Australia.
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| Author |
Perrone, Santina, author
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| ISBN |
9780195566369 (paperback) |
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