Key Readings in Criminology

"Key Readings in Criminology is the most comprehensive single-volume collection of readings in criminology. It provides students with convenient access to a broad range of excerpts (over 140 readings) from original criminological texts and key articles, and is designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with the same author's textbook, Criminology. This volume can be used in a number of ways in support of the study of criminology - as a source of both 'key' and supplementary reading for lectures, as the basis for organised reading in advance of seminars and tutorials, as the basis for classroom discussion and analysis, and as a broad source of reading for exam revision. In addition it provides students with access to a broad range of materials with which to follow up their reading of their main textbook. It includes readings that include both more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues as well as excerpts from criminological classics. It introduces students not only to criminological argument and debate but also encourages them to read primary as well as secondary or summary sources."--BOOK JACKET.

Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is currently President of the British Society of Criminology. Tim is the author or editor of over 30 books, the most recent of which are The Politics of Crime Control (edited with Paul Rock, Oxford University Press 2006); Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice (with Trevor Jones, Open University Press 2007); and the Handbook of Criminal Investigation (co-edited with Tom Williamson and Alan Wright, Willan Publishing 2007).