Table of Contents

Introduction
PART ONE: APPROACHING THE STUDY OF CRIME: HISTORICAL AND DEFINITIONAL ISSUES
Victorian Boys, We are Here! - Geoffrey Pearson
Perspectives in Criminological Theory - Sandra Walklate
Definitions of Deviance - Howard S Becker
Ten Points of Realism - Jock Young
Psychology and Crime Behaviour - Peter B Ainsworth
The Development of Feminist Perspectives on Crime - Nicole Hahn Rafter and Frances Heidensohn
PART TWO: MYTHOLOGIES OF CRIME
Crime, Power and Ideological Mystification - Steven Box
The Social Construction of Official Statistics - Clive Coleman and Jenny Moynihan
Corporate Crime, Official Statistics and the Mass Media - Gary Slapper and Steve Tombs
Crime and the Media - David Kidd-Hewitt
A Criminological Perspective
Folk Devils and Moral Panics - Stanley Cohen
The Creation of the Mods and Rockers
The Ultimate Neighbour from Hell? Stranger Danger and the Media Framing of Paedophiles - Jerry Kitzinger
Crime in Context - Ian Taylor
A Critical Criminology of Market Societies
PART THREE: CRIME AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Bias in the Criminal Justice System - Micheal Cavadino and James Dignan
Crime, Culture and Community - Janet Foster
White Collar and Corporate Crime - Hazel Croall
The Race and Crime Debate - John Lea and Jock Young
From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence - Stuart Hall
Youth and Crime - John Muncie
A Critical Introduction
The Myth of Girl Gangs - Susan Batchelor
Ordinary Experiences - Elizabeth A Stanko
When Men are Victims - Tim Newburn and Elizabeth A Stanko
The Failure of Victimology
PART FOUR: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Cop Culture - Rob Reiner
Policing and the Police - Clive Coleman and Clive Norris
Key Issues in Criminal Justice
The Trial - Frank Belloni and Jacqueline Hodgson
The Injudiciary - Andrew Billen
Justifications and Purposes of Imprisonment - Ian Dunbar and Anthony Langdon
The Closed Emotional World of Security Wing - Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor
PART FIVE: CRIME CONTROL AND THE FUTURE
Crime, Control and the Future - Nigel South
Some Theories and Speculations
Social Control - Barbara A Hudson
Smile, You′re on TV - John Naughton
They′re Watching You - Martin Bright
Land of the Free - Gary Younge
New Ways to Break the Law - Douglas Thomas
Cybercrime and the Politics of Hacking

About the Author

Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne. She has been carrying out prison research—much of it ethnography—for over 20 years and has spent the last decade researching and writing about prison architecture and design and their potential to rehabilitate. She has recently held two Economic and Social Research Council grants to study these topics and has worked as a consultant to prison architects and senior prison service personnel around the world. She has published extensively on various aspects of prisons and imprisonment, including (with Ben Crewe and Jamie Bennett) The Handbook on Prisons (2nd ed., 2016, Routledge). With Ben Crewe and Thomas Ugelvik, she is the Founding Editor of the new SAGE journal Incarceration.




 

 

Gayle Letherby is an honorary professor of sociology at the University of Plymouth and a visiting professor at the University of Greenwich. Alongside substantive interests in reproductive and non/parental identities; gender, health, and well-being; loss and bereavement; travel and transport mobility and working; and gender and identity within institutions (including universities and prisons), she has an international reputation in research methodology. Expertise in this area includes feminist and qualitative approaches and in auto/biography and creative reflexivity (with reference to data collection and presentation). Gayle is currently a coeditor of the SAGE journal Methodological Innovations and is in the process of editing the Handbook of Feminist Research for Routledge. In addition to her own research and writing, Gayle has significant experience in research mentoring and consultancy both within academia, for grant funding bodies and for HealthWatch UK. For examples of nonacademic writing and pieces written for general readership, see http://arwenackcerebrals.blogspot.co.uk/ and https://www.abctales.com/user/gletherby