Realist criminology /
Criminology has expanded significantly as an academic discipline, but it has been argued that it is becoming increasingly socially and politically irrelevant. This books aims to address this problem by rethinking the theoretical underpinnings and research methods we use, to form a criminology that i...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Successes and Failures of Modern Criminology
- 2. A Framework of Analysis
- 3. The Problem of Method
- 4. Rational Choice, Routine Activities and Situational Crime Prevention
- 5. From Cultural Criminology to Cultural Realism
- 6. The Myth of Punitiveness Revisited
- 7. Governing the Present.