Eamonn Carrabine, Isabel Crowhurst, Pete Fussey, Anna Sergi, Nigel South, Darren Thiel, Jackie Turton

Part 1: The Criminological Imagination, 1. Introduction, 2. Histories of Crime, 3. Researching Crime, Part 2: Thinking About Crime, 4. Enlightenment and Early Traditions, 5. Early Sociological Thinking about Crime, 6. Radicalizing Traditions: Marxism, feminism and Foucault, 7. Crime, Social Theory and Social Change, 8. Crime, Place and Space, 9. Victims and Victimization, Part 3: Doing Crime, 10. Life Course Criminology, 11. Theft, Fraud and Other Property Crimes, 12. Crime, Sexuality and Gender, 13. Crime, the Emotions and Social Psychology, 14. Organised Crime, 15. Corporate Crime and Crimes of the Powerful, 16. Drugs, Alcohol, Health and Crime, Part 4: Controlling Crime, 17. Thinking about Punishment, 18. The Criminal Justice Process, 19. The Police and Policing, 20. Prisons and Imprisonment, Part 5: Globalising Crime, 21. Green Criminology and Environmental Crime, 22. Crime and Media, 23. Digital Criminology and Cybercrime, 24. Political Violence, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, 25.State Crime and War Crime, 25. Criminological Futures.

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, this text offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives, to contemporary criminal justice, to pressing international issues in crime and punishment.