Brisman / Carrabine / South The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-59352-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 600 Seiten

A comprehensive one-stop reference text, The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts (the "Companion") will find a place on every bookshelf, whether it be that of a budding scholar or a seasoned academic. Comprising over a hundred concise and authoritative essays written by leading scholars in the field, this volume explains in a clear and inviting way the emergence, context, evolution and current status of key criminological theories and conceptual themes.

The Companion is divided into six historical and thematic parts, each introduced by the editors and containing a selection of accessible and engaging short essays written specifically for this text:

- Foundations of Criminological Thought and Contemporary Revitalizations

- The Emergence and Growth of American Criminology

- From Appreciation to Critique

- Late Critical Criminologies and New Directions

- Punishment and Security

- Geographies of Crime

Comprehensive cross-referencing between entries will provide the reader with signposts to later developments, to critiques and to associated theoretical developments explored within the book and lists of further reading in every entry will encourage independent thinking and study. This book is an essential reference to criminology students at all levels and is the perfect companion for courses on criminological theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brisman, Avi

Carrabine, Eamonn

South, Nigel

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Foundations of Criminological Thought and Contemporary Revitalizations

Part II: The Emergence and Growth of American Criminology

Part III: From Appreciation to Critique.

Part IV: Late Critical Criminologies and New Directions

Part V: Punishment and Security

Part VI: Geographies of Crime

Über Autor(innen)

Avi Brisman is an Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. His books include Geometries of Crime: How Young People Perceive Crime and Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide (Routledge, 2014), co-authored with Nigel South; Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues (Ashgate, 2015), co-edited with Nigel South and Rob White; and Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology (2013), co-edited with Nigel South. In 2015, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology.

Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (co-authored, 2002); Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (2004); Crime, Culture and the Media (2008); and Crime and Social Theory (2017). The textbook he co-authors with colleagues from the University of Essex, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, is now in its third edition. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Nigel South is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and in 2013 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He has published widely on green criminology, drugs and crime, and policing. With Avi Brisman he is co-author and co-editor of a number of books and with Eamonn Carrabine, co-author (with others) of Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (Routledge, 3rd edition).