An introduction to criminological theory
By: Roger Hopkins Burke
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: Willan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781135050474; 9780203498361; 9780415501712; 9780415501736
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE; Criminology
Description: "This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The text is divided into five parts, the first three addressing ideal type models of criminal behaviour the rational actor, predestined actor, and victimised actor models. The fourth part discusses integrated theories from within and across model boundaries and the final part discusses theories in the postmodern condition. Within these the various criminological theories are located chronologically in the context of one of these different traditions, and the strengths and weaknesses of each theory and model are clearly identified. The new edition features comprehensive coverage of recent developments in criminology including situation action theory, desistance theory, peacemaking criminology, as well as Loïc Wacquant's thesis of the penal society. Pedagogical features include chapter summaries, critical thinking questions and a full glossary of terms and theories"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- 1.; title: Introduction: crime and modernity --; title: Pre-modern crime and criminal justice --; title: The rise of modern society --; title: Defining and the extent of crime --; title: The purpose of criminological theory --; title: The structure of the book --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Note -- -- pt. One; title: The rational actor model of crime and criminal behaviour -- -- 2.; title: Classical criminology --; title: The Classical theorists --; title: The limitations of Classicism --; title: The neo-Classical compromise --; title: The enduring influence of Classicism --; title: Policy implications of Classicism --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 3.; title: Populist conservative criminology --; title: The rise of the political new right --; title: James Q. Wilson and `right realism' --; title: Right realism and social control --; title: Developments in conservative criminology --; title: Criticisms of populist conservative criminology --; title: Policy implications of populist conservative criminology --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Notes -- -- 4.; title: Contemporary rational actor theories --; title: Contemporary deterrence theories --; title: Rational choice theory --; title: Routine activities theory --; title: The rational actor reconsidered --; title: Policy implications of contemporary rational actor theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Notes -- -- pt. Two; title: The predestined actor model of crime and criminal behaviour -- -- 5.; title: Biological positivism --; title: Early biological theories --; title: Inherited criminal characteristics --; title: Genetic structure theories --; title: Criminal body types --; title: Psychoses and brain injuries --; title: Autistic spectrum disorders --; title: Biochemical theories --; title: Altered biological state theories --; title: Treating the offender --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of biological positivism --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 6.; title: Psychological positivism --; title: Psychodynamic theories --; title: Behavioural learning theories --; title: Cognitive learning theories --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of psychological positivism --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 7.; title: Sociological positivism --; title: Emile Durkheim and social disorganization theory --; title: The Chicago School --; title: Robert Merton and anomie theory --; title: Deviant subculture theories --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of sociological positivism --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 8.; title: Women and positivism --; title: Biological positivism and women --; title: Psychological positivism and women --; title: Sociological positivism and women --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of women and positivism --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- pt. Three; title: The victimized actor model of crime and criminal behaviour -- -- 9.; title: Labelling theories --; title: The social construction of crime --; title: The recipients of deviant labels --; title: The consequences of labelling for the recipients --; title: Moral panics and deviance amplification --; title: Criticisms of labelling theories --; title: Labelling theories revisited --; title: Policy implications of labelling theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 10.; title: Conflict and radical theories --; title: Conflict theories --; title: Criticisms of conflict theories --; title: Radical theories --; title: Criticisms of radical theories --; title: Peacemaking criminology --; title: Policy implications of conflict and radical theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 11.; title: The gendered criminal --; title: Perspectives in feminist theory --; title: The feminist critique of early explanations of female criminality --; title: The impact of feminist critiques --; title: Feminism and prostitution --; title: Is there a feminist criminology? --; title: Crime and masculinities --; title: Policy implications of the gendered criminal --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 12.; title: Critical criminology --; title: The origins of critical criminology --; title: Crimes of the powerful --; title: Crimes of the less powerful --; title: Critical criminology or `left idealism' --; title: Critical race theory --; title: Critical criminology and the challenge of zemiology --; title: Critical criminology revisited --; title: Policy implications of critical criminology --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- pt. Four; title: Integrated theories of crime and criminal behaviour -- -- 13.; title: Sociobiological theories --; title: Biosocial theory --; title: Biosocial theory and the `new right' --; title: Sociobiological theories of rape --; title: Recent sociobiological explanations of childhood delinquency --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of sociobiological theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading.; title: 14.; title: Environmental theories --; title: Early environmental theories --; title: British environmental theories --; title: North American environmental theories --; title: Environmental design --; title: Environmental management --; title: Policy implications of environmental theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 15.; title: Social control theories --; title: The origins of social control theories --; title: Early social control theories --; title: Later social control theories --; title: Integrated theoretical perspectives --; title: A general theory of crime --; title: Developments in social control theories --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of social control theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 16.; title: Situational action theories --; title: Situational action theory --; title: Crime as moral action --; title: Rules and rule guidance --; title: The role of motivation --; title: Environment and exposure --; title: The importance of causal interaction --; title: Development and change --; title: Broader social conditions --; title: Reflections on situational action theories --; title: Policy implications of situational action theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 17.; title: Desistance theories --; title: The ontogenetic paradigm --; title: The sociogenic paradigm --; title: Understanding change in adulthood --; title: Personality traits --; title: The narrative identity --; title: Narratives of desistance and change --; title: Agency and choice --; title: Narrating desistance --; title: Developments and reflections on desistance theories --; title: Policy implications of desistance theories --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Note -- -- 18.; title: Left realism --; title: The origins of left realism --; title: A balance of intervention --; title: Left realism and `New' Labour --; title: Social exclusion and the `underclass': a case study --; title: `New' Labour criminal justice policy revisited --; title: Recent developments in left realism --; title: Left realist theory revisited -- the historical context --; title: Policy implications of left realism --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- pt. Five; title: Crime and criminal behaviour in the age of moral uncertainty -- -- 19.; title: Crime and the postmodern condition --; title: Constitutive criminology and postmodernism --; title: Anarchist criminology --; title: Policy implications of crime and the postmodern condition --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Note -- -- 20.; title: Cultural criminology and the schizophrenia of crime --; title: The focus of cultural criminology --; title: The seductions of crime --; title: The carnival of crime --; title: The schizophrenia of crime --; title: Crime as normal and non-pathological --; title: One planet under a groove --; title: Cultural criminology and the mass media --; title: Policy implications of cultural criminology --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Notes -- -- 21.; title: Crime, globalization and the risk society --; title: New modes of governance --; title: Crime and the risk society --; title: Penal modernism and postmodernism --; title: Globalization and crime --; title: Southern theory --; title: Terrorism and state violence --; title: Terrorism and postmodernism revisited --; title: Policy implications of crime, globalization and the risk society --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Notes -- -- 22.; title: Radical moral communitarian criminology --; title: The communitarian agenda --; title: Radical egalitarian communitarianism --; title: The concept of community reconsidered --; title: The development of the concept of individualism in Western Europe --; title: The origins of Durkheim's social theory --; title: Durkheim, social solidarity and the French conception of individualism --; title: Radical moral communitarian criminology --; title: Policy implications of radical moral communitarian criminology --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading -- -- 23.; title: Living in penal society --; title: Four models of criminal justice development --; title: Loic Wacquant and the government of insecurity --; title: Racial inequality and imprisonment in the contemporary USA --; title: Four peculiar institutions --; title: Carceral recruitment and authority --; title: Conclusions --; title: Policy implications of living in penal society --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading --; title: Notes -- -- 24.; title: Conclusions: criminology in an age of austerity --; title: Criminological theory revisited --; title: Competing models of a criminological future --; title: Two models of public criminology --; title: An alternative: democratic criminology --; title: Closing thoughts: moral communitarianism and democratic criminology --; title: Summary of main points --; title: Discussion questions --; title: Suggested further reading.