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959627
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b713997
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Tierney, John.
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Criminology : : theory and context /\ John Tierney.
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| Edition Statement
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2nd ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Harlow :: Longman,, 2006.
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xiv, 401 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1405823615
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: 9781405823616
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-387) and indexes.
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| Contents
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pt. I. Preliminaries and early history -- 1. Criminology, crime and deviance : some preliminaries -- Good old common sense -- Setting the scence -- Criminology -- Crime -- Deviance -- 2. Measuring crime and criminality -- Official statistics -- The 'dark figure' of crime -- Public reporting -- Changes in the law -- The role of the police -- Ways of seeing -- The implications for criminal statistics -- Victim surveys -- The usefulness of criminal statistics -- Local crime surveys and left realism -- Recent crime trends -- 3. Criminology and criminologists up to World War Two -- Tree of sin, tree of knowledge -- The criminological tree of knowledge : separating the tree from the wood -- Classicism and positivism -- Positivist criminology -- The turn of the century to the 1930s -- Eugenics -- pt. II. World War Two to the mid-1960s -- 4. The discipline of criminology and its context-1 -- The emergence of criminology -- Sociological criminology -- Sociological criminology in Britain from the 1950s to the mid-1960s -- Sociological criminolgy in the United States -- 5. Social disorganisation and anomie -- The sociology and criminology of Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- The Chicago School -- Mertonian strain theory -- 6. Strain, subcultures and delinquency -- A.K. Cohen: developments in strain theory -- R. Cloward and L. Ohlin: opportunity knocks -- 7. Criminological theory in Britain -- American influences -- Sociological criminology in Britain -- Developing a British perspective -- Cultural diversity theory -- Schools and the 'problem of adjustment' -- Subcultural theory : taking stock
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pt. III. The mid-1906s to the early 1970s -- 8. The discipline of criminology and its context-2 -- The development of sociological criminology in Britain -- The break with orthodoxy : the new deviancy -- The new left -- Radicals and the new deviancy : the impact on British criminology -- 9. New deviancy theory : the interactionist approach to deviance -- Labelling theory -- Learning to become 'deviant' -- Primary and secondary deviation -- The amplification of deviance -- Conceptualising deviance -- Criticisms of the new deviancy -- pt. IV. The 1970s -- 10. The discipline of criminology and its context-3 -- Deviance and politics -- The sociology of law : making laws, making deviants -- Criminology in the 1970s : other directions -- Orthodox criminology -- Radical critiques and the growth of the new right -- 11. Post-new deviancy and the new criminology -- Deviance and power -- American conflict theory -- Politicising deviance -- Critical criminology -- Marx and Engels on crime -- Taylor, Walton and Young and the politicisation of deviance -- Politicising deviance : nuts, sluts, preverts ... and revolutionaries? -- Youth subcultures and politics -- Critical criminology : deviance, crime and power -- Phenomenology and crimonolgy -- Ethnomethodology -- Control theory -- Feminist perspectives and criminology
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pt. V. The 1980s to the mid-1990s -- 12. The discipline of criminology and its context-4 -- The shift to the right in British politics -- Criminology's external history -- Social organisation -- The growth of policy-oriented research -- The nature and context of research -- Policy-oriented research and the left -- Contemporary British criminology -- 13. Criminological theory -- Mainstream criminology -- Longitudinal research and criminal careers -- The historical roots -- Feminism and criminology -- Gender and crime -- Administrative criminology -- Right-wing classicism -- Neo-positivism -- Radical criminology -- Critical criminology and left radicalism -- Final remarks on the period -- Winning the fight against crime? -- pt. VI. The mid-1990s into the new millennium -- 14. The discipline of criminology and its context-5 -- New labour, old problems -- Restorative justice -- Social policy and new labour -- Crime prevention, crime reduction and community safety -- Crime and criminal justice : the wider context -- Criminology in the new millennium -- 15. Theoretical perspectives : recent developments -- Postmodernist perspectives -- Feminist perspectives -- Perspectives on masculinities -- Control perspectives -- Cultural perspectives -- Critical perspectives.
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Crime-- Sociological aspects.
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Crime-- Great Britain-- Sociological aspects.
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Criminology-- History.
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Criminology-- Great Britain-- History.
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Criminalité-- Aspect sociologique-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Criminalité-- Aspect sociologique.
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Criminologie-- Histoire.
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Criminologie-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire.
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Crime-- Sociological aspects.
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Criminology.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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364
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| LC Classification
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HV6021.T54 2006
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| NLM classification
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KB300 TIEmoys
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