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Fully revised and updated, this 4th edition offers a comprehensive guide in criminal justice and criminology that is well suited to a dual-semester approach. It covers a wide range of topics including: different forms of crimes – from street crime to state crime and international crimes; who commits crimes and who are the victims of crimes; and how society responds to crime. This book offers a balance between critical and administrative criminological traditions to add to the discourse of crime and justice in the twenty-first century.

Full contents:

• Pt.1. Understanding crime
• Ch. 1. What is crime? who is the criminal?
• Ch. 2. The distribution of crime over populations, space and time
• Ch. 3. Crime and the media
• Ch. 4. Individual explanations for crime
• Ch. 5. Social explanations for crime
• Ch. 6. Youth and crime
• Ch. 7. Crime in the streets
• Ch. 8. Crime and the home
• Ch. 9. White collar and corporate crime
• Ch. 10. Environment crime
• Ch. 11. State Crime
• Ch. 12. Cyber Crime
• Ch. 13. Crimes across borders
• Ch. 14. International crime
• Ch.15. Inequalities of Crime
• Ch. 16. Extending explanations of crime
• Pt. 2. Understanding criminal justice
• Ch. 17. Aims of the criminal justice system
• Ch. 18. Policing and law enforcement
• Ch.19. The criminal process
• Ch. 20. Innovative justice processes
• Ch.21. Imprisonment and detention
• Ch. 22. Community-based corrections
• Ch. 23. Crime Prevention and reduction
• Ch. 24. Victims and criminal justice
• Ch. 25. Experts, lay people and forensics
• Ch. 26. Transnational policing
• Ch. 27. Failures of justice
• Ch. 28. Criminal justice and human rights
• Ch. 29. National and international research resources.

Notes:

• Previous ed.: Sydney : Lawbook Co., c2006.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subject:

• Criminology — Australia — Textbooks
• Criminal justice, Administration of — Australia — Textbooks
• Australian
• xxvii, 716 p. : ill., ports ; 24 cm.
• #120125