- Hardcover: 212 pages
- Publisher: Willan (1 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903240107
- ISBN-13: 978-1903240106
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,366,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Criminology, or the study of crime, has developed rapidly as a subject in recent years, while crime and the problem of how to respond to it have become major concerns for society as a whole. This book provides a succinct, highly readable - and much needed - introduction to criminology for those who want to learn more, whether they are already studying the subject, thinking of doing so, or just interested to discover what criminology is about.
Introducing Criminology begins by asking basic questions: what is crime? what is criminology?, before examining the ways in which crime has been studied, and looking at the main approaches and schools of thought within criminology and how these have been developed. The authors focus particularly upon attempts to understand and explain crime by the disciplines of psychology and sociology, and consider also the impact of feminist and postmodern thought on the development of the subject. In the second part of the book the authors take three very different topics to illustrate themes raised in the first half of the book, exploring the particular issues raised by each topic, and showing how criminologists have gone about their work.
About the Author
Clive Coleman is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Hull. Clive Norris is Professor of Sociology, Head of Department, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Sheffield University.
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Crime and criminology were two of the growth industries of the second half of the twentieth century. Read the first page
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I guess the title introduction is right because that is pretty much all you get. An understanding of what the study criminology consists of. The book isn't very informative about the actual causes or prevention of crime though. It mostly just talks about what kind of theoratical studies there are to approach the subject. Very boring!
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