Crime and Society in Britain, 2nd edition

Crime continues to be a major area of public policy and debate, and societies expend huge amounts of intellectual and financial capital attempting to measure and understand it. The second edition of this highly respected text provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the study of crime in Britain, helping you to understand and critically evaluate the key issues. It is designed particularly for students coming to the subject for the first time but also those who want to dig deeper into the issues for more advanced study.

Crime and Society is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social policy and of key interest more widely across the social sciences.

• Explains how we find out about crime and how we have sought different theoretical approaches to understand it
• Explains how crime can be related to social inequality in society, to social deprivation, social class, age, gender and race
• Describes and analyses different kinds of crime, from violent and sexual crimes to organized and corporate crime and the crimes of the state
• Written in an accessible and engaging style but reaches into the deeper debates

• Updated to include the latest research, arguments and developments in the area
• Generally updated statistics and examples throughout
• Dedicated new chapters on Crime and the Media and Crime and the Environment
• New sections and boxes provide summaries and definitions, as well as vignettes on key topics such as anti-social behaviour, human trafficking, rape, knife crime and much more
• New Case boxes focus in detail on issues such as moral panics, corporate crime, state crime, hazardous waste dumping, paedophiles and sexual offending   
• New photographs provide a visual guide to many of the issues and examples