Criminological Perspectives
Essential Readings

Third Edition

Edited by:

Eugene McLaughlin - City University London, UK
John Muncie - The Open University, UK

Other Titles in:
Criminology (General) | Sociology of Deviance

February 2013 | 768 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This revised and expanded Third Edition of the internationally acclaimed Criminological Perspectives is the most comprehensive reader available in the field. Wide-ranging and global in scope and coverage, Criminological Perspectives will enable you to critically engage with the various concepts and theoretical positions that you'll encounter throughout your studies.

In addition to essays that have had a seminal influence on the development of criminology, new articles have been included to cover topics of contemporary criminological significance, including:

- surveillance

- digitized crime

- terrorism and political violence

- environmental crime

- human trafficking

- techno-social networks

- narco-crime

- global inequalities

The 56 articles are organised thematically, complete with introductions that place them in context and to illustrate the approaches taken by different schools of criminological thought.

Criminological Perspectives will prove an indispensible resource, whether you're studying criminology, criminal justice studies, socio-legal studies, penology, security studies, surveillance studies, or sociology.

PART ONE: CRIMINOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

Cesare Beccaria

(1764) On Crimes and Punishments

Jeremy Bentham

(1791) Panopticon or the Inspection House, &C.

Adolphe Quetelet

(1842) Of the Development of the Propensity to Crime

Cesare Lombroso and William Ferrero

(1895) The Criminal Type in Women and Its Atavistic Origin

Enrico Ferri

(1901) Causes of Criminal Behaviour

Frederick Engels

(1845) The Condition of Working Classes in England

William Bonger

(1916) Criminality and Economic Conditions

Peter Kropotkin

(1898) Law and Authority

Emile Durkheim

(1895) The Normal and the Pathological

Robert K Merton

(1938) 'Social Structure and Anomie',

PART TWO: CAUSES OF CRIME

Sarnoff A Mednick, William F Gabrielli Jr and Barry Hutchings

(1987) Genetic Factors in the Etiology of Criminal Behaviour

H J Eysenck

(1987) Personality Theory and the Problem of Criminality

David P Farrington

(1999) A Criminological Research Agenda for the Next Millennium

Charles Murray

(1990) The Underclass

John Lea and Jock Young

(1984) Relative Deprivation

Rodney Stark

(1987) Deviant Places: A Theory of the Ecology of Crime

Travis Hirschi and Michael R Gottfredson

(1994) The Generality of Deviance

Marcus Felson

(2000) The Routine Activity Approach as a General Crime Theory

Dorie Klein

(1973) The Etiology of Female Crime

Jack Katz

(1988) Seductions and Repulsions of Crime

PART THREE: CRIMINALISATION

Gresham M Sykes and David Matza

(1957) Techniques of Neutralization

Howard Becker

(1963) Outsiders

Stanley Cohen

(1967) Mods, Rockers and the Rest: Community Reactions to Juvenile Delinquency,

William J Chambliss

(1975) Toward a Political Economy of Crime

Steven Box

(1983) Crime, Power and Ideological Mystification

Angela Y Davis

(1998) Race and Criminalization: Black American and the Punishment Industry

Louk H C Hulsman

(1986) Critical Criminology and the Concept of Crime

Jock Young

(1986)The Need for a Radical Realism

Jeff Ferrell

(1999) Cultural Criminology

PART FOUR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIME PREVENTION

James Q Wilson

(1975) On Deterrence

Andrew von Hirsch

(1976) Giving Criminals Their Just Deserts

Francis T Cullen and Karen E Gilbert

(1982) The Value of Rehabilitation

Ronald V G Clarke

(1980) 'Situational' Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice

Elliott Currie

(1991) Social Crime Prevention Strategies in a Market Society

Nils Christie

(1977) Conflicts as Property

John Braithwaite

(1989) Reintegrative Shaming

William De Haan

(1991) Abolitionism and Crime Control

James Q Wilson and George L Kelling

(1982) Broken Windows: The Police and Neighbourhood Safety

Martha Gever

(2005) The Spectacle of Crime, Digitized. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and social anatomy

PART FIVE: CONTROL-OLOGY: GOVERNANCE AND SURVEILLANCE

Michel Foucault

(1977) The Carceral

Stanley Cohen

(1979) The Punitive City: Notes on the Dispersal of Social Control

Clifford D Shearing and Philip C Stenning

(1985) From the Panopticon to Disney World: The Development of Discipline

Malcolm M Feeley and Jonathan Simon

(1992) The New Penology

Pat O'Malley

(1992) Risk, Power and Crime Prevention

Jonathan Simon

(1997) Governing Through Crime

Mike Davis

(1994) Beyond Bladerunner: Urban Control. The Ecology of Fear

David Lyon

'Globalising Surveillance: Comparative and Sociological Perspectives

Loïc Wacquant

(2008) Ordering Insecurity: Social Polarisation and the Punitive Upsurge'

PART SIX: GLOBAL RISKS AND HARMS

Janet Chan

(2000) Globalisation, Reflexivity and the Practice of Criminology

Neil Middleton

(1998) Poverty Goes Global

Moisés Naím

(2011) The Drug Trade: The Politicization of Criminals and the Criminalization of Politicians

Ulrich Beck

(2002) The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited

Stanley Cohen

(1993) Human rights and Crimes of the State

Rob White

(2003) Environmental Issues and the Criminological Imagination.

Jackie Turner and Liz Kelly

(2009) Trade Secrets: Intersections Between Diasporas and Crime Groups in the Constitution of the Human Trafficking Chain

Sheila Brown

(2006) The Criminology of Hybrids: Rethinking Crime and Law in Techno-social Networks

This book is easy reading and one which UG students will find useful on any Criminology programme. Especially useful to those students who find theory difficult to grasp.

Ms Lucy Baldwin

Div. of Social Work, De Montfort University

October 6, 2014

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This book provides an excellent reference book with its wide range of Criminological theory

As such it will prove to be a book used time and again throughout a students journey from foundation level and to the completion of the Criminology Degree

It also brings Criminology and Criminal Justice to address modern dilemas related to Human Rights and threats facing todays society and in doing so provides a comprehensive reference book to draw upon developing Criminology in providing explanations for human behavior

The wide ranging focus of the book also provides insight into how reserch and theory can help shape future social policy and the management of Risk

Mr John Rotherham

Education and Teacher Training, St Helens College

August 19, 2014

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Very handy reader

Dr Sajid Humayun

Law Department, Greenwich University

March 10, 2014

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This book has really helped my students when researching the different theoretical perspectives in groups.

Will be recommending our college to adopt this book into the library and reading lists.