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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: Approaching the Study of Crime: Historical and Definitional Issues
• Chapter 1 – Victorian boys, we are here!
• Chapter 2 – Perspectives in criminology theory
• Chapter 3 – Definitions of deviance
• Chapter 4 – Ten points of realism
• Chapter 5 – Psychology and criminal behaviour
• Chapter 6 – The development of feminist perspectives on crime
• Part II: ‘Mythologies’ of Crime
• Chapter 7 – Crime, power and ideological mystification
• Chapter 8 – The social construction of official statistics
• Chapter 9 – Corporate crime, official statistics and the mass media
• Chapter 10 – Crime and the media: a criminologal perspective
• Chapter 11 – Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the mods and rockers
• Chapter 12 – The ultimate neighbour from hell? stranger danger and the media framing of paedophiles
• Chapter 13 – Crime in context: a critical criminology of market societies
• Part III: Crime and Social Stratification
• Chapter 14 – Bias in the criminal justice system
• Chapter 15 – Crime, culture and community
• Chapter 16 – White collar and corporate crime
• Chapter 17 – The race and crime debate
• Chapter 18 – From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence
• Chapter 19 – Youth and crime
• Chapter 20 – The myth of girl gangs
• Chapter 21 – Ordinary experiences
• Chapter 22 – When men are victims: the faliure of victimology
• Part IV: The Criminal Justice System
• Chapter 23 – Cop culture
• Chapter 24 – Policing and the police: key issues in criminal justice
• Chapter 25 – The trial
• Chapter 26 – The injudiciary
• Chapter 27 – Justifications and purposes of imprisonment
• Chapter 28 – The closed emotional world of the security wing
• Part V: Crime, Control and the Future
• Chapter 29 – Crime, control and the future: some theories and speculations
• Chapter 30 – Social control
• Chapter 31 – Smile, you’re on TV
• Chapter 32 – They’re watching you
• Chapter 33 – Land of the free
• Chapter 34 – New ways to break the law: cybercrime and the politics of hacking
• Author Index
• Subject Index