Key Concepts in Crime and Society

Editor/Author Coomber, Ross, Donnermeyer, Joseph and McElrath, Karen et.al
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Sage UK

Price: Core Collection Only This title is available on our Core subscription collections and is not available for individual purchase.
ISBN: 978-1-4739-2515-1
Category: Social Sciences - Criminology & Law
Image Count: 5
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

Key Concepts in Crime and Society offers an authoritative introduction to key issues in the area of crime as it connects to society.

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About the Authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section One: Understanding Crime and Criminality
1. Crime (definition of)
2. Deviance (definition of)
3. Crime in pre-industrial, pre-modern and post-modern societies
4. The criminal justice system
5. Social construction of crime and deviance
6. Crime and theory
7. Social control, governance and governmentality
8. Researching crime
9. Crime statistics
10. Prevalence, incidence and incident of crime
11. Risk from crime
12. Why people commit crime
13. Fear and the fear of crime
14. Poverty and exclusion
15. Victims of crime
16. Normalisation
17. Gender and crime
18. Youth and crime
19. Race/ethnicity and crime
20. White-collar/middle-class and corporate-class crime
Section Two: Types of Crime and Criminality
21. Human trafficking/slavery
22. Sex work
23. Victimless crime
24. Drug-related crime and violence
25. Gangs
26. Environmental crime and green criminology
27. Rural crime
28. Internet/cyber crime
29. State crime
30. War crime
31. Terrorism
32. Violence/interpersonal violence
Section Three: Responses to Crime
33. Crime and the media
34. Moral panics
35. Police and policing
36. Deterrence and prevention
37. Punishment
38. Prisons
39. Rehabilitation
40. Alternatives to imprisonment