Product Description

"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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135251 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 908 pages

Review
"'by far the most comprehensive and wide ranging reader on the market...I have no doubt it will prove very successful indeed' Dave Edwards (London South Bank University) 'This is exactly what I want my students to be reading' Nathan Hall (University of Portsmouth) 'will be a great resource for teachers and students' Professor Adam Crawford (University of Leeds) 'I would have no hesitation in recommending it to students on general criminology courses, even more criminologically-based modules' Mathew Hall (University of Sheffield) 'A very well conceived companion to Tim Newburn's Criminology' Professor Rob Canton (De Montfort University) 'This is a treasure trove of key reading which I would have no hesitation in recommending to students' Dave Waddington (Sheffield Hallam University)" --Reports for publisher