The sociology of crime and deviance
Subtitle: selected issues
By: edited by Susan Caffrey with Gary Mundy.
Contributors: Caffrey, Susan.; Mundy, Gary.
Series: Greenwich readers ;; 6
Publisher: Greenwich University Press; Distributed in North America by New York University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Dartford, Kent, U.K; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Crime.; Criminal behavior.; Deviant behavior.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Distributor statement from label mounted on p. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Criminalizing assault : the failure of the 'offence against society' model -- Antonia Cretney ... [et al.]; title: Crime statistics, patterns, and trends : changing perceptions and their implications -- Mike Maguire; title: Counting crimes : bending and fiddling the account -- Malcolm Young; title: Understanding female criminality -- Frances Heidensohn; title: Everyday life and symbolic creativity -- Paul Willis; title: Violence and sexuality -- Tony Eardley; title: Women, property and rape -- Lorenne Clark and Debra Lewis; title: The structure of sexual relations -- Sue Lees; title: Preventing domestic violence to women -- Rebecca Morley and Audrey Mullender; title: Deviance and moral panics -- Stanley Cohen; title: The interpretation of violence -- Philip Schlesinger; title: Mugging as a moral panic : a question of proportion -- Peter Waddington; title: Folk devils fight back -- Angela McRobbie; title: The drift to military policing -- John Lea and Jock Young; title: Black youth, crime and the ghetto : common sense images and law and order -- John Solomos; title: Public perception and contact with police -- Trevor Jones, Brian Maclean and Jock Young; title: Justice and symbolic interaction -- Stephen Hester and Peter Eglin; title: Creation of the modern prison in England and Europe (1500-1850) -- Dario Melossi and Massimo Pavarini; title: The trend-setter -- Nils Christie; title: Crime control as a product -- Nils Christie; title: Public imprisonment by private means : the re-emergence of private prisons and jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia -- Douglas C. McDonald; title: Visions of order -- Stanley Cohen.