Criminological perspectives : a reader / edited and introduced by John Muncie, Eugene McLaughlin and Mary Langan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Criminological Perspectives: an introduction -- Pt. 1. Criminological formations. 1. On crimes and punishments / Cesare Beccaria. 2. Of the development of the propensity to crime / Adolphe Quetelet. 3. The criminal type in women and its atavistic origin / Cesare Lombroso and William Ferrero. 4. Causes of criminal behavior / Enrico Ferri. 5. Criminality and economic conditions / Willem Bonger. 6. The normal and the pathological / Emile Durkheim. 7. Law and authority / Peter Kropotkin. 8. British criminology before 1935 / David Garland -- Pt. 2. The problem of crime I: causation. 9. Genetic factors in the etiology of criminal behavior / Sarnoff A. Mednick, William F. Gabrielli, Jr. and Barry Hutchings. 10. Personality theory and the problem of criminality / H. J. Eysenck. 11. Explanations of crime and place / Anthony E. Bottoms and Paul Wiles. 12. Crime and consumption / Simon Field. 13. The underclass / Charles Murray.

14. Relative deprivation / John Lea and Jock Young. 15. Seductions and repulsions of crime / Jack Katz. 16. The etiology of female crime / Dorie Klein. 17. Explaining male violence / Lynne Segal -- Pt. 3. The problem of crime II: criminalization. 18. Techniques of neutralization / Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza. 19. Outsiders / Howard Becker. 20. Toward a political economy of crime / William J. Chambliss. 21. The new criminology / Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young. 22. Crime, power and ideological mystification / Steven Box. 23. Drifting into a law and order society / Stuart Hall. 24. Criminalization and racialization / Michael Keith. 25. The theoretical and political priorities of critical criminology / Phil Scraton and Kathryn Chadwick. 26. Critical criminology and the concept of crime / Louk H. C. Hulsman -- Pt. 4. Crime control I: criminal justice and social policy. 27. On deterrence / James Q. Wilson.

28. Giving criminals their just deserts / Andrew von Hirsch. 29. The value of rehabilitation / Francis T. Cullen and Karen E. Gilbert. 30. 'Situational' crime prevention: theory and practice / Ronald V. G. Clarke. 31. Social crime prevention strategies in a market society / Elliot Currie. 32. Abolitionism and crime control / Willem De Haan. 33. The new penology / Malcolm M. Feeley and Jonathan Simon -- Pt. 5. Crime control II: social control, discipline and regulation. 34. Crime, authority and the policeman-state / V. A. C. Gatrell. 35. The carceral / Michel Foucault. 36. The punitive city / Stanley Cohen. 37. From the Panopticon to Disney World: the development of discipline / Clifford D. Shearing and Philip C. Stenning. 38. The power of law / Carol Smart. 39. Reintegrative shaming / John Braithwaite -- Pt. 6. Within and beyond criminology. 40. The failure of criminology: the need for a radical realism / Jock Young.

41. Feminist approaches to criminology or postmodern woman meets atavistic man / Carol Smart. 42. Towards transgression: new directions in feminist criminology / Maureen Cain. 43. Criminal women and criminal justice: the limits to, and potential of, feminist and left realist perspectives / Pat Carlen. 44. Postmodernism and critical criminology / Alan Hunt. 45. Human rights and crimes of the state: the culture of denial / Stanley Cohen. 46. The fragmentation of criminology / Richard Ericson and Kevin Carriere.