The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
by Maguire, Mike; Morgan, Rod; Reiner, RobertEdition: 4th
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Pub. Date: 2007-05-31
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Summary
The most comprehensive and authoritative single volume text on the subject, the fourth edition of the acclaimed Oxford Handbook of Criminology combines masterly reviews of all the key topics with extensive references to aid further research. In addition to the history of the discipline and reviews of different theoretical perspectives, the book provides up-to-date reviews of diverse topics as the criminal justice process, race and gender, crime statistics, and the media and crime. The fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated and is essential reading for all teachers and students of criminology and an indispensable sourcebook for professionals. Online Resource Center * Test bank of questions enabling lecturers to test their students' progress and understanding * Web links to key criminological resources allowing students to further research the subject * Notes on the Contributors * Editors' Introduction to the 4th edition
Author Biography
Mike Maguire is Professor of Criminology, University of Glamorgan Rod Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice, University of Bristol, and HM Chief Inspector of the Probation Service for England and Wales Robert Reiner is Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | p. xvii |
| Introduction to the Fourth Edition | p. xxi |
| Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre | p. xxvi |
| Criminology: History and Theory | |
| Sociological Theories of Crime | p. 3 |
| Introduction: The Development of Criminology in Britain | p. 3 |
| Sociological Criminology | p. 7 |
| Crime and Control | p. 8 |
| Crime, Control, and Space | p. 18 |
| Radical Criminology | p. 23 |
| Functionalist Criminology | p. 26 |
| Signification | p. 28 |
| Criminology as an Eclectic Discipline | p. 33 |
| Prospects for the Future | p. 34 |
| Criminological Psychology | p. 43 |
| Introduction | p. 43 |
| The Growth of Psychology | p. 44 |
| Psychology and Criminology: Early Accord | p. 46 |
| Psychology and Criminology: The Parting of the Ways | p. 48 |
| Psychology and Criminology: Little Common Ground | p. 51 |
| Psychology and Criminology: Not on Speaking Terms | p. 57 |
| Psychology and Criminology: Return to Cordiality? | p. 65 |
| Concluding Comment | p. 70 |
| Contemporary Landscapes of Crime, Order, and Control: Governance, Risk, and Globalization | p. 78 |
| Introduction | p. 78 |
| Governance | p. 79 |
| Risk | p. 84 |
| Globalization | p. 88 |
| Conclusion: Criminology, Culture, and Public Life | p. 93 |
| Cultural Criminology | p. 102 |
| Introduction | p. 102 |
| For a Sociologically Inspired Criminology | p. 103 |
| This is 'What is Cultural' about Cultural Criminology | p. 105 |
| Inside the 'Hall of Mirrors': Media, Representation, Meaning | p. 108 |
| Transgressive Subjects: Uncovering the Meanings and Emotions of Crime | p. 111 |
| Dangerous Knowledge | p. 113 |
| Conclusion | p. 117 |
| Historical Perspectives on Crime | p. 122 |
| Introduction | p. 122 |
| Theory | p. 123 |
| From Violence to Theft? | p. 125 |
| Statistical Data | p. 128 |
| Cultural History | p. 131 |
| Human Agency | p. 132 |
| Continuities, Discontinuities, and Connections | p. 134 |
| Comparing Criminal Justice | p. 139 |
| Why Study Criminal Justice Comparatively? | p. 139 |
| On Methods of Comparative Research | p. 143 |
| Approaches to Comparison | p. 147 |
| Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice | p. 158 |
| Introduction: From Difference to Diversity | p. 158 |
| Diversity and Crime | p. 159 |
| Difference, Diversity and Justice | p. 166 |
| Community, Diversity, and Human Rights | p. 171 |
| The Social Construction of Crime and Crime Control | |
| Legal Constructions of Crime | p. 179 |
| The Relationship between Criminal Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Studies | p. 180 |
| Criminal Law | p. 182 |
| Contextualizing Criminal Law: Criminological Perspectives | p. 192 |
| The Doctrinal Structure of Criminal Law: Questions for the Social Sciences | p. 194 |
| From Critical Criminal Law to Criminalization | p. 196 |
| No Turning Back: The Politics of Law and Order Into the Millennium | p. 201 |
| Introduction | p. 201 |
| British General Elections and 'Law and Order', 1945-2005 | p. 203 |
| Pressure-Group and Interest-Group Politics | p. 222 |
| Matters of Scandal and Concern | p. 231 |
| Conclusions | p. 234 |
| Crime Data and Statistics | p. 241 |
| Introduction | p. 241 |
| Historical Overview: The Rise and Fall of Official Statistics | p. 243 |
| Interpreting the Statistics | p. 254 |
| Alternatives and Challenges to the Official Picture | p. 276 |
| Recent Developments and Emerging Issues | p. 290 |
| Media-Made Criminality: The Representation of Crime in the Mass Media | p. 302 |
| Crime in the Media: Subversion, Social Control, or Mental Chewing Gum? | p. 302 |
| The Content of Media Images of Crime | p. 303 |
| The Consequences of Media Images of Crime | p. 315 |
| The Causes of Media Representations of Crime | p. 323 |
| Observers or Players? The Media and Crime in Postmodernity | p. 327 |
| Dimensions of Crime | |
| Political Economy, Crime, and Criminal Justice | p. 341 |
| Introduction: Political Economy and Crime: A One-Sided Accentuation? | p. 341 |
| Political Economy and Criminological Theory | p. 345 |
| Economic Factors and Crime: What is the Empirical Evidence? | p. 355 |
| Political Economies, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Comparative and Historical Perspectives | p. 363 |
| Conclusion: Markets, Meanings, Morals | p. 372 |
| Gender and Crime | p. 381 |
| Introduction | p. 381 |
| Feminist Contributions to Criminology | p. 381 |
| The Early Feminist Critique of Criminology | p. 383 |
| Methodological Issues and Developments | p. 385 |
| Theoretical Work on Masculinity | p. 387 |
| Women, Men, and Crime | p. 391 |
| Gender, Crime, and Justice in Late Modernity | p. 406 |
| Ethnicities, Racism, Crime, and Criminal Justice | p. 421 |
| Setting the Context: Historical, Conceptual, and Contemporary | p. 422 |
| Redrawing the Parameters of the 'Race and Crime' Debate: Victimization and Offending | p. 424 |
| The Social Construction of Ethnicity and Criminality | p. 429 |
| Criminological Research on Ethnicity and Crime | p. 430 |
| The Police and Policing Minority Communities | p. 434 |
| Explaining Disproportionality | p. 436 |
| Prison and Probation | p. 445 |
| Minority Ethnic Employment in the Criminal Justice System | p. 448 |
| Conclusion: Challenges for Theory, Research, and Practice | p. 450 |
| Victims, Victimization, and Criminal Justice | p. 461 |
| Introduction | p. 461 |
| The Nature and Distribution of Victimization | p. 462 |
| Victims' Movements and Victims' Justice | p. 470 |
| Victims in the Criminal Justice Process | p. 473 |
| The Rise of Restorative Justice | p. 481 |
| Conclusion | p. 487 |
| Mentally Disordered Offenders, Mental Health, and Crime | p. 496 |
| Policy Development in England and Wales: A Context of Conflicting Themes | p. 497 |
| Mental Disorder and Offenders: A Case for Special Provision? | p. 501 |
| The Problem of Definition | p. 503 |
| Mentally Disordered Offenders: A Minority Group? | p. 504 |
| Mental Disorder, Offending Behaviour, and Treatment | p. 511 |
| Protective Sentencing: Procedural Safeguards versus Treatment | p. 519 |
| Conclusions | p. 522 |
| Place, Space, Crime, and Disorder | p. 528 |
| Place, Space, and Crime: A Brief History | p. 530 |
| Preliminary Methodological Issues | p. 533 |
| Explaining the Location of Offences | p. 535 |
| Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Incivilities and Disorder | p. 550 |
| Explaining the Location of Offender Residence | p. 557 |
| Integrating Socio-Spatial Criminology | p. 567 |
| Macro-Level Issues | p. 568 |
| Youth Crime and Youth Culture | p. 575 |
| Youth and Crime in Historical Context | p. 575 |
| Youth in Post-war Britain | p. 577 |
| Young People, Crime, and Victimization | p. 585 |
| Conclusion | p. 595 |
| Childhood Risk Factors and Risk-Focused Prevention | p. 602 |
| Introduction | p. 602 |
| Individual Risk Factors | p. 608 |
| Family Risk Factors | p. 613 |
| Explaining Development and Risk Factors | p. 619 |
| Risk-Focused Prevention | p. 623 |
| Conclusions | p. 629 |
| Crime and the Life Course | p. 641 |
| Problems of Method | p. 642 |
| The Extent of Specialization in Offending | p. 646 |
| The Extent of Stability and Change over the Life Course | p. 651 |
| Explaining Stability | p. 662 |
| Explaining Desistance | p. 669 |
| Conclusion | p. 674 |
| Forms of Crime | |
| Violent Crime | p. 687 |
| Introduction | p. 687 |
| Attitudes to Violence and Constructions of Blame | p. 689 |
| Extent of Violent Crime and Risks of Victimization | p. 692 |
| Predicting and Explaining Violent Behaviour | p. 703 |
| Making Sense of Homicide | p. 716 |
| Responses to Violence: Recent Trends | p. 718 |
| Conclusions | p. 722 |
| White-Collar and Corporate Crime | p. 733 |
| Introduction | p. 733 |
| Seven Types of Ambiguity | p. 736 |
| White-Collar Crime as a Contested Concept | p. 738 |
| Is White-Collar Crime Really Crime? | p. 741 |
| Explaining the Causes of White-Collar Crime | p. 742 |
| White-Collar Crime in its Everyday Settings | p. 748 |
| The Ambivalent Response to White-Collar Crime | p. 752 |
| White-Collar Crime as an Index of Social Change | p. 758 |
| The Collateral Costs of Control | p. 760 |
| Organized Crime and Terrorism | p. 771 |
| Introduction | p. 771 |
| Analytical Issues in Defining the Nature of 'Organized Crime' | p. 777 |
| The Nature of Organized Crime and 'its' Markets | p. 782 |
| Terrorism and the Alleged Organized Crime-Terrorism Nexus | p. 791 |
| The Evolution of Crime and Terrorism Organization: Some Tentative Conclusions | p. 794 |
| Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime | p. 810 |
| Introduction | p. 810 |
| A Review of Trends in Drug and Alcohol Use: 1950s to 2005 | p. 811 |
| The Control of Drugs: Britain and the Global Context | p. 818 |
| Conclusions | p. 832 |
| Reactions to Crime | |
| The Governance of Security: Pluralization, Privatization, and Polarization in Crime Control | p. 841 |
| Clarifying Key Terms | p. 842 |
| Key Features of Contemporary Security Governance | p. 846 |
| Prospects for Democratic Security Governance: Nodal Governance or Re-stating Security? | p. 856 |
| Conclusion | p. 861 |
| Crime Prevention and Community Safety | p. 866 |
| The Fall and Rise of Prevention | p. 867 |
| Conceptualizing Prevention | p. 870 |
| Situational Crime Prevention | p. 872 |
| Developmental Crime Prevention | p. 882 |
| Community Crime Prevention | p. 884 |
| Policy Developments in the UK | p. 889 |
| Conclusions | p. 904 |
| Policing and the Police | p. 910 |
| Introduction: Criminology and Policing | p. 910 |
| The Development of Police Research | p. 911 |
| 'Police' and 'Policing' | p. 912 |
| Police Discretion: Its Nature, Operation, and Control | p. 915 |
| 'New Tricks': Innovative Policing Strategies | p. 927 |
| Pluralization | p. 932 |
| Internationalization | p. 937 |
| Conclusion: Futures of Policing | p. 941 |
| From Suspect to Trial | p. 953 |
| Models of Criminal Justice | p. 953 |
| Police Decisions 'on the Street' | p. 956 |
| Detention in the Police Station | p. 963 |
| Whether or Not to Prosecute | p. 971 |
| Pre-Trial Processes | p. 976 |
| Conclusion | p. 981 |
| Sentencing | p. 990 |
| Sentencing and Politics | p. 990 |
| Rationales for Sentencing | p. 992 |
| The Mechanics of Sentencing | p. 998 |
| Custodial Sentencing | p. 1006 |
| Non-Custodial Sentencing | p. 1014 |
| Review of Policy and Practice | p. 1018 |
| Youth Justice | p. 1024 |
| The Background to the 1998 Reforms | p. 1024 |
| New Labour, New Youth Justice? | p. 1032 |
| The Reformed System in Practice | p. 1042 |
| Conclusion: Whither Youth Justice? | p. 1055 |
| Community Penalties: Probation, 'What Works', and Offender Management | p. 1061 |
| Introduction: Catching the Slippery Fish | p. 1061 |
| Current Community Penalties in England and Wales | p. 1063 |
| Origins: From Religious Mission to Social Casework | p. 1066 |
| 'Nothing Works' and 'Alternatives to Custody' | p. 1069 |
| Just Deserts and 'Punishment in the Community' | p. 1074 |
| Community Penalties and Crime Reduction: The Rediscovery of Rehabilitation | p. 1075 |
| What Worked and What Didn't? | p. 1079 |
| After 'What Works', What Next? NOMS and the Future | p. 1083 |
| Some Critical Choices for the Future | p. 1086 |
| A Future for Probation? | p. 1090 |
| Imprisonment: An Expanding Scene | p. 1100 |
| Setting the Scene | p. 1100 |
| The Purpose of Imprisonment | p. 1107 |
| Who Are the Prisoners? | p. 1118 |
| The Sociology of Prisons | p. 1126 |
| Index | p. 1139 |
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