Criminology: Theory and Context

ISBN-13: 9780273722779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 450 str.

John Tierney

Opis

This text explores the history and growth of criminology as an academic discipline and presents a detailed discussion of the major criminological theories that have developed as a result.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Preliminaries and Early History  1. Criminology, crime and deviance: some preliminaries  2. Measuring crime and criminality  3. Criminology and criminologists up to World War Two  Part II: World War Two to the Mid-1960s  4. The discipline of criminology and its context  5. Social disorganisation and anomie  6. Strain, subcultures and delinquency  7. Criminological theory in Britain  Part III: The Mid-1960s to the Early 1970s  8. The discipline of criminology and its context  9. New deviancy theory: the interactionist approach to deviance  Part IV: The 1970s  10. The discipline of criminology and its context  11. Post-new deviancy and the new criminology  Part V: The 1980s to the Mid-1990s  12. The discipline of criminology and its context  13. Criminological theory  Part VI: The Mid-1990s into the New Millennium  14. The discipline of criminology and its context  15. Theoretical perspectives: recent developments.

O autorze

John Tierney was a Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University.