description: This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and rule-breaking, placing them in their European and North American contexts, confronting major criticisms that have been voiced againstthem, and constructing defences where appropriate. The book has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to include new issues of crime, deviance and theory in the early twenty-first century, and includes summaries of cultural criminology and new assessments of the contribution made byGottfredson and Hirschi to control theory.
language: English
title: Understanding Deviance
titlecomplete: Understanding Deviance
genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Oxford University Press