Introduction to Criminology / Shereen Hassan, Dan Lett ; Leah Ballantyne, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassan, Shereen, author.

Lett, Dan, author.

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Leah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Annual

Place of Publication:

British Columbia : Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although this open education resource (OER) is written with the needs and abilities of first-year undergraduate criminology students in mind, it is designed to be flexible. As a whole, the OER is amply broad to serve as the main textbook for an introductory course, yet each chapter is deep enough to be useful as a supplement for subject-area courses; authors use plain and accessible language as much as possible, but introduce more advanced, technical concepts where appropriate; the text gives due attention to the historical "canon" of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the practical methods of responding to broken rules and of mending relationships. Special thanks to Leah Ballantyne, LLB LLM, a Cree lawyer from the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, who provided expert Indigenous consultation/editing for this textbook.

Contents:

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For Students: How to Use this Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. What is Crime?

2. Typologies and Patterns of Crime

3. Media and Crime

4. Race and Crime

5. Methods and Counting Crime

6. Biological Influences on Criminal Behaviour

7. Psychological Theories of Crime

8. Sociological Theories of Crime

9. Learning Theories

10. Critical Criminology

11. Feminist Criminology

12. Cultural Criminology

13. Green Criminology

14. Victimology

15. Crimes of the Powerful

16. Environmental Criminology

17. Restorative, Transformative Justice

Glossary

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