文档介绍：CRIMINOLOGY
Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative prehensive
study guide and reference resource that will take you through all the
concepts, approaches, issues and institutions central to the study of
crime in contemporary society.
Topics covered in this easy-to-use A–Z guide include:
policing, sentencing and the justice system;
types of crime, including corporate crime, cybercrime, sex and
hate crimes;
feminist, Marxist and cultural approaches to criminology,
terrorism, state crime, war crimes and human rights;
social issues such as antisocial behaviour, domestic violence and
pornography;
criminal psychology and deviance.
Fully cross-referenced, with extensive suggestions for further reading
and in-depth study of the topics discussed, this is an essential refer-
ence guide for students of criminology at all levels.
Martin O’Brien is Reader in Criminology at the University of
Central Lancashire. He is the author, with Sue Penna, of Theorising
Welfare: Enlightenment and Modern Society (1998), and editor of
Integrating and Articulating Environments: A Challenge for Northern and
Southern Europe (2003).
Majid Yar is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the
Centre for Criminological Research at Keele University. He has
published widely in the areas of social and political theory, criminol-
ogy, continental philosophy, cultural analysis and philosophy of social
science, and is the author of Cybercrime and Society (2006).
ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ROUTLEDGE
Criminology: the basics
Sandra Walklate
978-0-415-33554-6
Available soon from Routledge
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology
Keith Hayward et al.
978-0-415-42911-5
CRIMINOLOGY
The Key Concepts
Martin O’Brien and Majid Yar
First published 2008
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Fr