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Criminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime. In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family. The book provides criminology students with an understanding of key social policy issues, and introduces criminological theory to social policy students. It is designed to cover the core components of courses i

The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal justice and research practice, uncovering the many different 'sides' – to echo Howard Becker's famous phrase – that criminologists, policy makers and researchers take. It spans Marxist, postmodernist and feminist perspectives on criminology, analyses of the dynamics of race, gender and age, research methods and ethics, the working of the criminal justice system and engages with current debates about new challenges for criminology, such as the green movement and Islamophobia. This is a timely and thought-provoking collection which will be of interest to academics and students in criminology and criminal justice, and on professional courses, such as probation and youth justice practice

chapter 1 Introduction: Criminology and the Digital Society -- chapter 2 At the Crossroad: Cyber, Critical and Cultural Criminologies -- chapter 3 A Global Context: Networks, Corporations and States -- chapter 4 Crime in Real Time: Immediacy, Immersion and Engagement -- chapter 5 Liminal Images: Criminality, Victimisation and Voyeurism -- chapter 6 Networked Hate: Racism, Misogyny and Violence -- chapter 7 Informal Justice: Digilantism, Victim Participation and Recognition -- chapter 8 More Than a Hashtag: Crime and Social Justice Activism -- chapter 9 Conclusion: Crime and Justice in Digital Society.

At a time when criminal justice systems appear to be in a permanent state of crisis, leading scholars from criminology and theology come together to challenge criminal justice orthodoxy by questioning the dominance of retributive punishment. This timely and unique contribution considers alternatives that draw on Christian ideas of hope, mercy and restoration. Promoting cross-disciplinary learning, the book will be of interest to academics and students of criminology, socio-legal studies, legal philosophy, public theology and religious studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers

ObjectiveTo survey the contemporary literature in the social and biological sciences relevant to race that examines both the reality and the usefulness of the concept. Race is considered a major correlate of criminal behavior, and thus a fresh look at the concept is of obvious importance to criminologists and sociologists.MethodSocial, genetic, medical, and criminology databases were keyword searched for articles on race that either addressed its existence/nonexistence or usefulness as a concept.ResultsWe find that biologist and social constructionists talk past one another and never venture beyond the comfort of their own positions. Genetic studies using very few chromosomal loci find that genetic polymorphisms divide human populations into clusters with almost 100 percent accuracy and that they correspond to the traditional anthropological categories.ConclusionThere is much to gain by recognizing that these categories differ genetically, and that we can dispense with the term race in favor of some other term such as population or ethnic group and nothing would be lost except a word.

Over the past decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite (1951) has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is universally considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our times and he has characteristically put his scientific engagement at the service of humanity and society by aiming at social justice, participative democracy, sustainable development and world peace. His relentless efforts to create links between the study of criminology and other scientific disciplines has led the K.U. Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) t

Class, race, gender and criminology: structured choices and the life course / Michael J. Lynch -- Gender inequality and criminalization: a social feminist perspective on the legal social control of women / Mona J.E. Danner -- The left realist perspective on race, class, and gender / Walter S. DeKeseredy -- Postmodern criminology on race, class, and gender / Bruce A. Arrigo -- Peacemaking criminology: introduction and implicaitons for the intersection of race, class, and gender / Susan L. Caulfield -- Mass-mediated regimes of truth: race, gender, and class in crime "news" thematics / Gregg Barak -- Sentencing women to prison: equality without justice / Meda Chesney-Lind -- White collar crime and the class-race-gender construct / David O. Friedrichs -- Victimization of homeless youth: public and private regimes of control / Suzanne E. Hatty, Nanette J. Davis, and Stuart Burke -- Aboriginal Australia: current criminological themes / Rick Sarre -- An examination of disposition decision-making for delinquent girls / Jody Miller -- Controlling homeless mothers: the surveillance of women in a homeless shelter / Victoria Pitts -- Adolescence and the socialization of gendered fear / Jo Goodey.

Abstract The substantive area of criminology has increasingly become politicized with new paradigms arising to challenge the traditional perspectives. For the purpose of this analysis the voluminous amount of criminological research and writing is placed within three major paradigms: (1) kinds of people, (2) kinds of environments, and (3) power/conflict. The increasing articulation of the power/conflict paradigm has brought about an intensification of conflict in society and among criminologists. The future of criminology and subsequently of criminologists will be determined by the interplay of these and emerging other paradigms among academic criminologists and their competing expression among the public at large.