Table of Contents

Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition by Jock Young, Forward by Alvin W. Gouldner, 1, Classical criminology and the positivist revolution, 2. The appeal of positivism, 3. Durkheim and the break with 'analytical individualism', 4. The early sociologies of crime, 5. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career, 6. American naturalism and phenomenology, 7. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime and social control, 8. The new conflict theorists, 9. Conclusion.

About the Author

Jock Young is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. His work has had a profound impact on criminology. Along with John Lea, Jock Young developed Left Realism Criminology and is now involved in a new theoretical development known as Cultural Criminology. He has published extensively across a wide range of areas including mass media, drugs, abortion, policing, criminal victimization, stop and search and ethnic minorities.He has just finished a trilogy on social exclusion: The Exclusive Society (Sage, 1999) The Vertigo of Late Modernity (Sage, 2007) and The Criminological Imagination (Polity Press, 2011).