Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
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What is crime? How criminologists think about crime -- The origins of modern criminology -- The consolidation of modern criminology -- Dissenting criminology -- A guide to reading and thinking about criminology -- Explaining crime : unemployment and crime -- Explaining crime : crime and the family -- Criminology and the lure of crime prevention -- Victims and victimology -- Critical absences : criminology and corporate crime -- Critical absences : criminology and crimes of the state -- Conclusion : towards a reflexive criminology.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Providing an international view of criminology, this title draws on important schools of thought, examples and analyses from the UK, the EU, the USA, Canada and Australia.