A Sociology of Crime

by Peter Eglin, Stephen Hester

Overview

The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136805141
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/04/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Stephen Hester, University of Wales, Bangor.

Table of Contents

Preface 1 Sociology and crime 2 Constructing criminal law 3 Criminalization and domination 4 Ethnomethodology's law 5 Policing as symbolic interaction 6 The ethnomethodology of policing 7 The political economy of policing 8 Discipline, domination and criminal justice 9 Justice and symbolic interaction 10 Ethnomethodology in court 11 Crime and punishment 12 The functions of crime control