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• Cover
• Endorsement page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures and tables
• About the author
• 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
• Challenging conventional criminological thinking
• Exercise
• Victimology: The Holocaust connection
• The victimological other
• Summary
• Criminological perspectives and the ‘lone wolf’ terrorist
• 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
• Meaning and understanding: Making sense of the ‘fear of crime’
• Self-report studies
• Other records
• Lived experience as data
• Summary
• Counting ‘invisible’ crimes
• The 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 – ‘crimes of the streets’
• How much crime? Crimes behind closed doors
• The nature and extent of crime: ‘Crimes of the suites’
• Example 1: The Bhopal disaster 1984
• Example 2: The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib prison
• Example 3: The Rwandan genocide 1994
• Digital criminology: Transgressing the street, closed doors, and the suites
• 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
• Thinking about intersectionality
• Looking at the evidence: Finding a place for state crime?
• Cultural criminology
• Summary and conclusion
• Exercise
• Recommendations 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?
• Can there be a Southern victimology?
• Summary and conclusion
• Exercise
• Recommendations for further reading
• 6 Crime, power, and global relations: An introduction to critical criminology
• Introduction: The rich get richer and the poor get prison
• Crimes of the suites: Problems of definition
• Nelken’s ambiguities
• Exercise
• Criminal victimisation and crimes of the suites
• Summary
• How has criminology attempted to explain crimes of the suites?
• Marxist criminology
• Radical criminology
• Critical criminology
• Criminology and crimes of the suites: Happy or unhappy bedfellows?
• Terrorism: A topic of substance for critical criminology?
• Climate change: A topic of substance for critical criminology?
• Summary and conclusion
• Exercise
• Recommendations for further reading
• 7 A question of justice
• Introduction
• What is justice?
• Natural justice
• Due process
• Crime control
• Social justice
• Exercise
• Criminal justice systems
• Criminal justice: Underlying principles
• Criminal justice: Discretion
• Summary
• Victims and justice: Therapeutic justice
• Victim impact statements
• Exercise
• Restorative justice
• Exercise
• Victim voices and the complexity of justice
• Summary
• Is criminal justice ‘institutionally racist’?
• Conclusion
• Exercise
• Recommendations for further reading
• 8 Crime prevention and the future of crime control
• Introduction
• What does prevention mean?
• Trends in crime prevention
• Offender-centred strategies
• Victim-centred strategies
• Environment-centred strategies
• Community-centred strategies
• Integration strategies
• Structural dimensions to crime prevention: Crimes of the streets, crimes of the suites, and crimes behind closed doors
• Crimes behind closed doors: Community, gender, ethnicity, and crime prevention
• Gender and crime prevention
• Ethnicity and crime prevention
• Summary
• Structural dimensions to crime prevention: Crimes of the suites
• Crime prevention: From the local to the global
• Conclusion
• Exercise
• Recommendations for further reading
• 9 Extending your criminological imagination
• Introduction
• Growth in crime, growth in criminology?
• Criminology, criminal justice policy, and global trends
• Criminology and risk
• Decolonising criminology
• Conclusion
• Recommendations for further reading
• Glossary of terms
• Bibliography
• Index