Criminology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Yar, Majid

ISBN 10: 0415427940 / ISBN 13: 9780415427944

Editore: Routledge, 2008

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Codice articolo GOR005939901

Riassunto:

Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and institutions central to the study of crime in contemporary society.

Topics covered in this easy to use A-Z guide include:

• policing, sentencing and the justice system
• types of crime, including corporate crime, cybercrime, sex and hate crimes
• feminist, marxist and cultural approaches to criminology
• terrorism, state crime, war crimes and human rights
• social issues such as anti-social behaviour, domestic violence and pornography
• criminal psychology and deviance

Fully cross-referenced, with extensive suggestions for further reading and in-depth study of the topics discussed, this is an essential reference guide for students of Criminology at all levels.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Martin O'Brien is Reader in Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author, with Sue Penna, of Theorising Welfare: Enlightenment and Modern Society (1998), and editor of Integrating and Articulating Environments: A Challenge for Northern and Southern Europe (2003).

Majid Yar is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Keele University. He has published widely in the areas of social and political theory, criminology, continental philosophy, cultural analysis, and philosophy of social science, and is the author of Cybercrime and Society (2006).

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Titolo: Criminology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key...
Casa editrice: Routledge
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good