Public Criminology?

ISBN-13: 9780415445498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Ian Loader;Richard Sparks

Opis

How do criminologists engage with politics & public policy? This book is a sociological account of how criminologists have understood their craft, the positions they have taken on the controversies of their day, and an analysis of the dilemmas that confront those who work in the field today.

Recenzje

'Loader and Sparks have produced an engaging, clever and lively book...'
-David Wilson, Professor of Criminology, Birmingham City University

Spis treści

Introduction: Why Public Criminology?  1. The Condition of Contemporary Criminology  2. The Public Social Science Debate  3. Criminology in a Hot Climate  4. Cooling Devices  5. Criminology as a Democratic Under-Labourer.