The new criminology: for a social theory of deviance

1. Classical criminology and the positivist revolution -- 2. The appeal of positivism -- 3. Durkheim and the break with 'analytical individualism' -- 4. The early sociologies of crime -- 5. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career -- 6. American naturalism and phenomenology -- 7. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime and social control -- 8. The new conflict theorists -- 9. Conclusion.

""The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place; it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath: a world turned upside down .It was a time of great changes in personal politics and a surge of politics on the left: Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism as well as radical social democratic ideas became centre stage."" Jock Young, from the new introduction.Taylor, Walton and Young's The New Criminology is one of the seminal texts in Criminology. First published in 1973, it marked a watershed moment in the development of critical criminological theory and is as relevant toda