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Author Coomber, Ross, author.

Title Key concepts in crime and society / Ross Coomber, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Karen McElrath and John Scott.

Publication Info. Los Angeles, California : SAGE, [2015]
©2015
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2019.

Item Status

Edition [Enhanced Credo edition]
Description 1 online resource (48 entries) : 5 images ; digital files.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SAGE key concepts series
SAGE key concepts.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Section One: Understanding crime and criminality: 1. Crime (definition of); 2. Deviance (definition of); 3. Crime in pre-industrial, pre-modern and post-modern societies; 4. The criminal justice system; 5. Social construction of crime and deviance; 6. Crime and theory; 7. Social control, governance and governmentality; 8. Researching crime; 9. Crime statistics; 10. Prevalence, incidence and incident of crime; 11. Risk from crime; 12. Why people commit crime; 13. Fear and the fear of crime; 14. Poverty and exclusion; 15. Victims of crime; 16. Normalisation; 17. Gender and crime; 18. Youth and crime; 19. Race/ethnicity and crime; 20. White-collar/middle-class and corporate-class crime -- Section Two: Types of crime and criminality: 21. Human trafficking/slavery; 22. Sex work; 23. Victimless crime; 24. Drug-related crime and violence; 25. Gangs; 26. Environmental crime and green criminology; 27. Rural crime; 28. Internet/cyber crime; 29. State crime; 30. War crime; 31. Terrorism; 32. Violence/interpersonal violence -- Section Three: Responses to crime: 33. Crime and the media; 34. Moral panics; 35. Police and policing; 36. Deterrence and prevention; 37. Punishment; 38. Prisons; 39. Rehabilitation; 40. Alternatives to imprisonment.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary Key Concepts in Crime and Society offers an authoritative introduction to key issues in the area of crime as it connects to society.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Local Note Credo Reference General Reference
Subject Criminology.
Criminology.
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Donnermeyer, Joseph F., author.
McElrath, Karen, 1959- author.
Scott, John Geoffrey, author.
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Added Title Crime and society
Crime & society
Other Form: Print version: 0857022555 9780857022554 (DLC) 2014948904 xiii, 183 pages : illustrations
ISBN 9780857022561 paperback
0857022563 paperback
0857022555
9780857022554
1473925290
9781473925298
9781787853553 electronic version