The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
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Product details:
- Edition number 7
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 September 2023
- ISBN 9780198860914
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages1024 pages
- Size 245x170x40 mm
- Weight 1528 g
- Language English 547
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of Criminology provides a comprehensive collection of chapters covering the core and emerging topics studied on criminology courses, indispensable to students, academics, and professionals alike.
MoreLong description:
With contributions from leading authorities, this is the definitive guide to current criminological theory, research, and policy.
The Oxford Handbook of Criminology provides a comprehensive collection of chapters covering the core and emerging topics studied on criminology courses, indispensable to students, academics, and professionals alike.
? 43 chapters written by over 85 leading academics exploring relevant theory, cutting-edge research, policy developments, and current debates, encouraging students to appreciate the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of criminological discourse
? Includes detailed references to aid further research
? Chapters updated to reflect recent cases, statistics, and scholarship, as well as significant current events such as Covid-19 and social justice movements.
? New chapters added presenting research on topical issues including victimology, hate crime, desistance, cybercrime, atrocity crimes, convict criminology, security and smart cities, prison abolitionism, comparative criminology, sex offending, and network criminology.
Digital formats and resources
The seventh edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
- The accompanying online resources include essay questions and links to useful websites for each chapter, along with guidance on answering essay questions and access to chapters from previous editions.
The Handbook has long been essential for me, both as a student and a teacher. The new edition is every bit as significant as its predecessors - the updates that have been made are exciting and ensure that it retains its relevance.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Renewing our vision
Part I: Conceptions of Crime and Criminology
Sociological theories of crime
Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives
Towards a global comparative criminology
The changing role of data in crime, criminal justice and criminology
Developmental and life-course criminology: an overview
Turning over a new leaf: desistance research for a new generation
Urban criminal collaborations
Drug use, drug problems, and drug control: a political economy perspective
Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
Crime news, trial by media, and scandal hunting
Part II: Critical Contemporary Issues
Criminology and atrocity crimes
Contagion and connections: applying network thinking to violence and organised crime
Demystifying hate crime in an age of crises
Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
Where is 'victimology' in an era of
MeToo?
Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
Domestic violence
Prostitution and sex work
Understanding and rehabilitating men with sexual convictions: theory, intervention, and compassion
Cybercrime: a social ecology
White-collar and corporate crime
Social harm and zemiology
Green criminology
Crime and consumer culture
Part III: Security, Policing, and Prevention: Visions of Justice
Security and everyday life in uncertain times
Crime prevention as urban security
Security and smart cities
Policing and the police
Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
Understanding penal decision-making: courts, sentencing and parole
Youth justice in an age of uncertainty: principles, performance, and prospects
Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
Punishment, victimhood, and social control: towards a criminology of transitional justice
Part IV: Punishment and the Penal State
The punishment-welfare relationship: history, sociology, and politics
Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
Reconfiguring and reimagining penal power
Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
Why prison architecture and design matter to our understanding of the limits of punishment and rehabilitation
'Hounding power into a corner': prison abolitionism in England and Wales
Convict criminology without guarantees: proposing hard labour for an unfinished criminology
Criminological engagements
