Crime, Justice, and Society: Criminology and the Sociological Imagination

ISBN-10: 0072896132
ISBN-13: 9780072896138
Pages: 524
Language: English
Published: 2001
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Authors: Ronald J. Berger, Patricia Searles, Marvin D. Free

Description

This is a criminology text that is explicitly sociological in orientation and is designed to help students cultivate a sociological imagination to guide their thinking about crime and criminal justice. The book takes a critical approach and places questions of social inequality and power at the center of criminological inquiry. It views class, race/ethnicity, and gender as pivotal organizing principles of social life - prisms through which we come to know ourselves and our social world and as central mechanisms by which social relationships are patterned.