Criminology (Third Edition)

Offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of key criminological issues from specialists in the field, enabling students to gain a full and rounded understanding of the subject

Includes questions, summaries, further reading guidance, useful web links, and tables and diagrams throughout, which help students to understand the more challenging issues and engage with the key debates

Accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre, which provides extra support for lecturers using the textbook in their teaching and valuable additional materials for students

New to this edition

Brand new chapter on the emergence, scope, and regulation of cybercrime

Seminal chapter on 'crime, culture, and everyday life', an area of growing importance

Six new authors from the universities of Kent, Durham, Southampton, Cardiff, and Northumbria

Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. Criminology is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students approaching the subject for the first time. It examines a wide range of topics, including historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; who commits crime and who are the victims of crime; and how society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder.

The contributions to this book offer clear, accessible introductions to the main topics and issues of criminology. Questions, summaries, further reading guidance, useful web links, and tables and diagrams can be found throughout. The third edition includes contributions from six new authors and contains new chapters on cybercrime, and 'crime, culture, and everyday life'.