What is to be done about crime and punishment? : towards a 'public criminology' / Roger Matthews, editor.
Matthews, Roger, 1948- editor.
2016
HV6025
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Title What is to be done about crime and punishment? : towards a 'public criminology' / Roger Matthews, editor.
ISBN 9781137572288 (electronic book)
1137572280 (electronic book)
1137572272
9781137572271
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 9781137572271
Call Number HV6025
Dewey Decimal Classification 364
Summary This book responds to the claim thatcriminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite itsexponential expansion as anacademic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issuesassociated with crime and punishment.The original contributions to this volume are provided by leadinginternational experts in a wide range of issues. They address imprisonment, drugs, gangs, cybercrime, prostitution, domestic violence, crime control, as well as white collar and corporate crime. Written in an accessible style, this collection aims to contribute to the development of a more public criminology and encourages students and researchers at all levels to engage in a form of criminology that is more socially relevant and more useful.
Note This book responds to the claim thatcriminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite itsexponential expansion as anacademic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issuesassociated with crime and punishment.The original contributions to this volume are provided by leadinginternational experts in a wide range of issues. They address imprisonment, drugs, gangs, cybercrime, prostitution, domestic violence, crime control, as well as white collar and corporate crime. Written in an accessible style, this collection aims to contribute to the development of a more public criminology and encourages students and researchers at all levels to engage in a form of criminology that is more socially relevant and more useful.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards a Public Criminology; Roger Matthews
Chapter 2. The Violence Divide: Taking 'Ordinary' Crime Seriously in a Volatile World; Elliott Currie
Chapter 3. Domestic Violence: The Increasing Tensions Between Experience, Theory, Research, Policy and Practice; Nicole Westmarland and Liz Kelly
Chapter 4. Critical Realism and Gang Violence; John Pitts
Chapter 5. Middle Range Critical Realism for Crime Prevention; Nick Tilley
Chapter 6. Policing; Past, Present and Future; Ben Bowling, Shruti Iyer, Robert Reiner and James Sheptycki
Chapter 7. Seven Ways to Make Prisons Work; Francis Cullen, Cheryl Jonson, Daniel Mears and Angela Thielo
Chapter 8. Five Steps Towards a More Effective Global Drugs Policy; Caroline Chatwin
Chapter 9. Taming Business? Understanding Effectiveness in the Control of Corporate and White Collar Crime; Fiona Haines
Chapter 10. Cybercrime 4.0: Now What is to be Done?; Mike McGuire
Chapter 11. Addressing Prostitution: The Nordic Model and Beyond; Helen Johnson and Roger Matthews.

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