The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Written accessibly, and with its international perspective and first-rate scholarship, this is truly the first global handbook of criminology.
Editors and contributors are international experts in criminology, offering a comparative perspective on theories and systems
Contains full discussion of key debates and theories, the implications of new topics, studies and ideas, and contemporary developments
Coverage includes: class, gender, and race, criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, punishment, mass media, international crimes, and social control
About the Author
Colin Sumner is an investment manager and writer. He was Professor and Head of the Law School at the University of East London and for many years a Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology and a Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Berkeley, Simon Fraser, Queen’s [Kingston], St. Mary’s, and Dar es Salaam. His books include Reading Ideologies (1979), Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment (1982), Censure, Politics and Criminal Justice (1990), The Sociology of Deviance (1994), Violence, Culture and Censure (1996), and Social Control and Political Order (ed. with Roberto Bergalli, 1997). He also edited a book series entitled New Directions in Criminology and, with Piers Beirne, founded and edited the journal Theoretical Criminology.
Features
Contains 26 original essays by an international group of expert criminologists
Provides a contemporary and global guide to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology
Contains full discussion of: key debates and theories; the implications of new topics; studies and ideas; and contemporary developments
Coverage includes: class, gender, and race; criminal justice; juvenile delinquency; punishment; mass media; international crimes; and social control
