Comprehensive and accessible, Tim Newburn’s bestselling Criminology provides an introduction to the fundamental themes, concepts, theories, methods and events

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Since its inception, criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-e

This book answers the basic questions - what is crime? what is criminology?, before examining the ways in which crime has been studied, and looking at the main

This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic stren