Yvonne Jewkes & Gayle Letherby 
Criminology 
A Reader

This
reader provides a comprehensive introduction for students studying criminology at undergraduate level. Not only does the book include 34 essential readings, but also editorial commentary with section introductions, study questions, and suggestions for further reading.

The reader will provide a thorough grounding in issues related to the study of crime, the criminal justice system, and social control. In their selection the editors have sought to indicate crime′s varied and conflicting history as well as its current debates. The mixture of historical and more recent readings shows a variety of perspectives.

The Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students and teachers in the fields of criminology, criminal justice studies, the sociology of crime and deviance, socio- legal studies, social policy, criminal law and social work.

Table of Content

Introduction

PART ONE: APPROACHING THE STUDY OF CRIME: HISTORICAL AND DEFINITIONAL ISSUES

Victorian Boys, We are Here! – Geoffrey Pearson

Perspectives in Criminological Theory – Sandra Walklate

Definitions of Deviance – Howard S Becker

Ten Points of Realism – Jock Young

Psychology and Crime Behaviour – Peter B Ainsworth

The Development of Feminist Perspectives on Crime – Nicole Hahn Rafter and Frances Heidensohn

PART TWO: MYTHOLOGIES OF CRIME

Crime, Power and Ideological Mystification – Steven Box

The Social Construction of Official Statistics – Clive Coleman and Jenny Moynihan

Corporate Crime, Official Statistics and the Mass Media – Gary Slapper and Steve Tombs

Crime and the Media – David Kidd-Hewitt

A Criminological Perspective

Folk Devils and Moral Panics – Stanley Cohen

The Creation of the Mods and Rockers

The Ultimate Neighbour from Hell? Stranger Danger and the Media Framing of Paedophiles – Jerry Kitzinger

Crime in Context – Ian Taylor

A Critical Criminology of Market Societies

PART THREE: CRIME AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION

Bias in the Criminal Justice System – Micheal Cavadino and James Dignan

Crime, Culture and Community – Janet Foster

White Collar and Corporate Crime – Hazel Croall

The Race and Crime Debate – John Lea and Jock Young

From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence – Stuart Hall

Youth and Crime – John Muncie

A Critical Introduction

The Myth of Girl Gangs – Susan Batchelor

Ordinary Experiences – Elizabeth A Stanko

When Men are Victims – Tim Newburn and Elizabeth A Stanko

The Failure of Victimology

PART FOUR: THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Cop Culture – Rob Reiner

Policing and the Police – Clive Coleman and Clive Norris

Key Issues in Criminal Justice

The Trial – Frank Belloni and Jacqueline Hodgson

The Injudiciary – Andrew Billen

Justifications and Purposes of Imprisonment – Ian Dunbar and Anthony Langdon

The Closed Emotional World of Security Wing – Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor

PART FIVE: CRIME CONTROL AND THE FUTURE

Crime, Control and the Future – Nigel South

Some Theories and Speculations

Social Control – Barbara A Hudson

Smile, You′re on TV – John Naughton

They′re Watching You – Martin Bright

Land of the Free – Gary Younge

New Ways to Break the Law – Douglas Thomas

Cybercrime and the Politics of Hacking

About the author

Gayle Letherby is an honorary professor of sociology at the University of Plymouth and a visiting professor at the University of Greenwich. Alongside substantive interests in reproductive and non/parental identities; gender, health, and well-being; loss and bereavement; travel and transport mobility and working; and gender and identity within institutions (including universities and prisons), she has an international reputation in research methodology. Expertise in this area includes feminist and qualitative approaches and in auto/biography and creative reflexivity (with reference to data collection and presentation). Gayle is currently a coeditor of the SAGE journal Methodological Innovations and is in the process of editing the Handbook of Feminist Research for Routledge. In addition to her own research and writing, Gayle has significant experience in research mentoring and consultancy both within academia, for grant funding bodies and for Health Watch UK. For examples of nonacademic writing and pieces written for general readership, see http://arwenackcerebrals.blogspot.co.uk/ and https://www.abctales.com/user/gletherby