The Blackwell Companion to Criminology [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sumner, Colin.

Series:

Blackwell companions to sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Local Subjects:

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2008.

Summary:

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Written accessibly, and with its international perspective and first-rate scholarship, this is truly the first global handbook of criminology. Editors and contributors are international experts in criminology, offering a comparative perspective on theories and systemsContains full discussion of key debates and theories, the implications of new topics, studies and ideas, and contemporary developmentsCoverage

Contents:

The blackwell Companion to Criminology; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; PART I CRIME, JUSTICE, AND SOCIETIES; 1 The Social Nature of Crime and Deviance; 2 Theories of Social Control and the State between American and European Shores; 3 Criminal Justice Process and War on Crime; 4 Criminology, Genocide, and Modernity: Remarks on the Companion that Criminology Ignored; PART II JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND JUSTICE; 5 The Criminologists' Gang; 6 Youth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan; 7 Consumer Culture and Crime in Late Modernity

8 The Politics of Youth Crime and Justice in South AfricaPART III PUNISHMENT AND ITS ALTERNATIVES; 9 Penal Policies and Contemporary Politics; 10 Beyond Bricks, Bars, and Barbed Wire: The Genesis and Proliferation of Alternatives to Incarceration in the United States; 11 Rehabilitation: An Assessment of Theory and Research; 12 Female Punishment: From Patriarchy to Backlash?; PART IV GENDER AND THE MASCULINITY OF CRIME; 13 Beyond Bad Girls: Feminist Perspectives on Female Offending; 14 Managing ""Men's Violence"" in the Criminological Arena

15 Masculinities and Crime: Rethinking the ""Man Question""?16 ""Abominable and Detestable"": Understanding Homophobia and the Criminalization of Sodomy; 17 The Gendering and Racializing of Criminalized Others; PART V CAPITAL, POWER, AND CRIME; 18 White-Collar Crime; 19 ""Dance Your Anger and Your Joys"": Multinational Corporations, Power, ""Crime""; 20 Globalization and the Illicit Drugs Trade in Hong Kong; 21 Trafficking in Human Beings and Related Crimes in West and Central Africa; PART VI GLOBALIZATION, CRIME, AND INFORMATION

22 Globality, Glocalization, and Private Policing: A Caribbean Case Study23 The Rise of the Surveillant State in Times of Globalization; 24 The Politics of Crime Statistics; 25 Two Realities of Police Communication; 26 Hacktivism - Resistance is Fertile?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

437065626