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What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?: Towards a ´Public Criminology´
Roger Matthews (Ed.)
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Description for What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?: Towards a ´Public Criminology´
Hardback. Editor(s): Matthews, Roger. Num Pages: 339 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKVM; JKVP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 219 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137572271
SKU
V9781137572271
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Ref
99-15
About Roger Matthews (Ed.)
Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. His main areas of interest and research include imprisonment, sex trafficking and prostitution, social theory, crime prevention and community safety. He is author of Prostitution, Politics and Policy (2008), Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment (2009), Realist Criminology (2014) and is co-author of Exiting Prostitution: ... Read more
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