Product Description

Textbook on Criminology offers an engaging and wide-ranging account of crime and criminology. It provides a clear and comprehensive consideration of the theoretical, practical, and political aspects of the subject, including the influence of physical, biological, psychological, and social factors on criminality. The text is ideal both for law students studying criminology modules, and for students studying criminological theory modules as part of their criminology degrees. The author deals with the major questions of criminology such as 'how do you define a crime?', 'why do people become criminals?', and 'how should we deal with criminals?'. Each question is studied from an objective and academic viewpoint and encourages greater social, political, and philosophical awareness of crime, criminals, and society's response to them. The text also maps out the changes in crime control and society's expectations in relation to crime control, and students will find the insightful chapter on terrorism and state violence to be of particular interest and relevance in light of recent global events.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39719 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 625 pages

About the Author
Kate Williams is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her main teaching areas are criminology, criminal justice, welfare law and social policy, civil liberties and human rights. As well as her work on criminology, she has recently published in the areas of criminal justice and computer law and is presently engaged in shaping and assessing policy initiatives for tackling crime in rural areas.

Customer Reviews

So brilliant it's criminal!
This book is a fundamental book on the subject of Criminology, Katherine Williams outlines nearly every question anyone could ask on the subject and produces a detailed answer. It asks questions like "Why do people become criminals?" and gives a educated answer that is analytical and looks at the answer from a sociological, psychological and theoretical point of view, also explaining why society acts the way it does to crime.

This is the fifth edition of the book, so the information in this copy is up to date, produces a comprehensive overview of criminology on the whole.

The book provides questions at the end of each chapter and references from which the author has taken her information, which also prove useful to students that want to look up other sources of information on that subject.

A must for any crim. student
As a first year Criminology student ive found this really helpful for my course, also see 'The Oxford Handbook Of Criminology' - another must have!

exceptional
this book was a valuble resource. i would recommend this to anyone who is studying Criminology, however other resources were required as not all the theories were covered in this book.