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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253352303321

Titolo

What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment? [[electronic resource] ] : Towards a 'Public Criminology' / / edited by Roger Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-57228-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 324 p.)

Disciplina

364.01

Soggetti

Criminology

Critical criminology

Crime—Sociological aspects

Computer crimes

Organized crime

Corrections

Punishment

Criminological Theory

Critical Criminology

Crime and Society

Cybercrime

Organized Crime

Prison and Punishment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards a Public Criminology; Roger Matthews -- Chapter 2. The Violence Divide: Taking 'Ordinary' Crime Seriously in a Volatile World; Elliott Currie -- Chapter 3. Domestic Violence: The Increasing Tensions Between Experience, Theory, Research, Policy and Practice; Nicole Westmarland and Liz Kelly -- Chapter 4. Critical Realism and Gang Violence; John Pitts -- Chapter 5. Middle Range Critical Realism for Crime Prevention; Nick Tilley -- Chapter 6. Policing; Past, Present and Future; Ben Bowling, Shruti Iyer, Robert Reiner and James Sheptycki -- Chapter 7. Seven Ways to Make Prisons Work;



Francis Cullen, Cheryl Jonson, Daniel Mears and Angela Thielo -- Chapter 8. Five Steps Towards a More Effective Global Drugs Policy; Caroline Chatwin -- Chapter 9. Taming Business? Understanding Effectiveness in the Control of Corporate and White Collar Crime; Fiona Haines -- Chapter 10. Cybercrime 4.0: Now What is to be Done?; Mike McGuire -- Chapter 11. Addressing Prostitution: The Nordic Model and Beyond; Helen Johnson and Roger Matthews.

Sommario/riassunto

This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issues associated with crime and punishment. The original contributions to this volume are provided by leading international experts in a wide range of issues. They address imprisonment, drugs, gangs, cybercrime, prostitution, domestic violence, crime control, as well as white collar and corporate crime. Written in an accessible style, this collection aims to contribute to the development of a more public criminology and encourages students and researchers at all levels to engage in a form of criminology that is more socially relevant and more useful.