Criminology: A Sociological Introduction

This fully comprehensive general introduction to Criminology covers all the major areas of the discipline. It serves students in their first and second years as a core text and acts as a starting point for more advanced work for third-year students doing criminology degrees. Key topics covered are the history of criminology, measurement of crime, crime and social exclusion, criminological theory, the criminal justice system, categories of crime, including property crime, violent crime, drugs and crime and crimes of the state and new areas such as environmental crime and the globalization of crime. Especially designed to be user-friendly each chapter contains boxed material on current controversies, key thinkers, and examples of crime and criminal justice around the world with statistical tables, maps, summaries, critical thinking questions, annotated references, and glossed key terms.