Efnisyfirlit

• About the Author
• Online Resources
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introducing the landscapes of criminology
• 1.1 Introducing the text
• 1.2 Structure of the text
• 1.3 What is ‘criminology’?
• 1.4 Skills and competencies of a criminologist
• 1.5 Key topics in criminology
• 1.6 What is ‘crime’?
• 1.7 Types of crime
• 1.8 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• Part 1 Understanding the causes and prevalence of crime
• 2 ‘Theory’ and its uses
• 2.1 What is theory?
• 2.2 The ‘problems’ with theory
• 2.3 Key examples of theories in criminology
• 2.4 How is theory created and how does it work?
• 2.5 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 3 Criminological theory: the causes of crime
• 3.1 Approaching theories of crime
• 3.2 Accounting for crime
• 3.3 Different crimes, different explanations?
• 3.4 The different explanations: introducing the five blocks
• 3.5 Mapping out the blocks
• 3.6 Block one: choice and decision-making
• 3.7 Block two: individual pathologies
• 3.8 Block three: social pathologies
• 3.9 Block four: critical approaches
• 3.10 Block five: integrated approaches
• 3.11 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 4 Doing criminological research
• 4.1 Introducing research in criminology
• 4.2 Doing research: the research process
• 4.3 Ethics and research
• 4.4 Epistemology and ontology
• 4.5 Choosing a research approach/method
• 4.6 Sampling
• 4.7 Research validity
• 4.8 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 5 Counting crime
• 5.1 Counting crime: what to count?
• 5.2 How do we count crime?
• 5.3 Official recorded data on crime
• 5.4 Victimisation surveys
• 5.5 Other data sources on crime
• 5.6 Revisiting the iceberg analogy
• 5.7 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• Part 2 Social divisions and crime
• 6 The politics of law and order
• 6.1 Politics and law and order: crime policy as currency and baggage
• 6.2 The role of the media
• 6.3 The impacts of political influence on law and order processes
• 6.4 The focus on drugs
• 6.5 President Donald Trump: penal populist par excellence?
• 6.6 Politics of law and order in a wider context
• 6.7 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 7 Offenders and victims
• 7.1 Defining ‘victim’ and ‘offender’
• 7.2 The data on victims and offenders
• 7.3 Conceptualisations of offender and victim
• 7.4 Unconventional offenders and victims
• 7.5 Conceptualising the vulnerability to victimisation and offending
• 7.6 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 8 Media and Crime
• 8.1 Introducing the link between the media and crime
• 8.2 Crime in different media forms
• 8.3 Crime content in the media
• 8.4 Moral panics and deviancy amplification
• 8.5 Social media and crime
• 8.6 Policing and the media
• 8.7 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• Part 3 Dealing with crime and justice
• 9 Punishment
• 9.1 Power, authority and legitimacy to punish
• 9.2 Punishment at an international level
• 9.3 Why punish?
• 9.4 Types of punishment
• 9.5 Outcomes and consequences of how we respond to crime
• 9.6 The death penalty
• 9.7 Critical issues of punishment
• 9.8 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 10 Social policy and crime
• 10.1 Understanding the connection between social policy and criminology
• 10.2 Policy overlaps
• 10.3 Inequality matters
• 10.4 Case study: homelessness
• 10.5 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 11 Global justice
• 11.1 The need to think ‘global’
• 11.2 International standards: social justice
• 11.3 International standards: human rights
• 11.4 People trafficking
• 11.5 Application of criminological theories
• 11.6 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 12 Moving towards a harms-based approach
• 12.1 The problem with ‘crime’: a harms-based alternative
• 12.2 Social murder
• 12.3 Structural violence
• 12.4 Assessing a social harms approach
• 12.5 Summary and implications
• Recommended reading and follow-up material
• 13 Conclusion
• 13.1 Summary of the text
• 13.2 Putting it all together
• 13.3 Criminological futures
• 13.4 Final activity
• References
• Index