Designed as an alternative to conventional texts on criminology, A Sociology of Crime departs from the traditional concern with criminal behaviour and its causes to emphasize the socially constructed nature of crime. Taking a perspective from radical sociology, Stephen Hester and Peter Elgin argue that crime is a product of social processes which identify certain acts and persons as criminal. In their exploration of this theme, Hester and Elgin use three leading approaches in contemporary sociological theory - ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, and structural conflict theory. They...
Designed as an alternative to conventional texts on criminology, A Sociology of Crime departs from the traditional concern with criminal behaviour and...
The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students.
The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the wa...
