In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
In this timely book, Ren[ac]e van Swaaningen warns that if criminology is to keep advancing as a discipline there is an urgent need for the resurgence of a theoretical perspective.
Crime as structured action: Gender, race, class, and crime in the making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Examines the relationship between lived action and crime as influenced by social structural components. Provides an explanation of crime ...
... 1990; Introducing Policework; 1988 (with M Brogden and S Walklate); Interpreting Policework, 1987 (with R Grimshaw); Controlling the Constable, 1984 (with R Grimshaw); Policing the Crisis, 1978 (with Stuart Hall et al.); ...
This book sets to explore the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology, bringing together a set of leading authorities in the field from the UK, Australasia and the USA.
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'Critical Criminology' is now a well-established - if heterogeneous and contentious - field of study.
This title explores the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology. The book brings together an eminent international cast of critical criminologists from the Uk, USA, Australia and New Zealand.