Key Ideas in Criminology

Sentencing

Time for a Paradigm Shift

By Ralph Henham

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

Sentencing is the process through which the legitimacy of punishment is declared and justified. However, it is increasingly portrayed as a social activity which should be more responsive to the pluralistic needs and values of individuals and communities in contemporary society. It will therefore...

Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge

Feminist Criminology

By Claire M. Renzetti

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

Feminist criminology grew out of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s, in response to the male dominance of mainstream criminology – which meant that not only were women largely excluded from carrying out criminological research, they were also barely considered as subjects of that research. In this...

Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

Contemporary Critical Criminology

By Walter S. DeKeseredy

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time. Written by an internationally renowned scholar, Contemporary Critical Criminology...

Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge

Public Criminology?

By Ian Loader, Richard Sparks

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas...

Published July 4th 2010 by Routledge

Genocidal Crimes

By Alex Alvarez

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. No corner of the world seems immune from this form of collective violence. While many individuals are familiar with the term, few people have a clear understanding of what genocide is and how it is carried out. This book...

Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge

Security

By Lucia Zedner

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

Just a decade ago security had little claim to criminological attention. Today a combination of disciplinary paradigm shifts, policy changes, and world political events have pushed security to the forefront of the criminological agenda. Distinctions between public safety and private protection,...

Published March 18th 2009 by Routledge

Rehabilitation

By Tony Ward, Shadd Maruna

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum’s swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is arguably one...

Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge

Penal Populism

By John Pratt

Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

Expertly drawing on international examples and existing literature, Penal Populism closes a gap in the field of criminology. In this fascinating expose of current crime policy John Pratt examines the role played by penal populism on trends in contemporary penal policy. Penal populism is associated...

Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge