Introduction to Theories & Issues in Criminology (ASS021-1)

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Core Texts:

• Newburn, T. (2007) Criminology. Cullompton: Willan.
• Newburn, T. (ed.) (2009) Key readings in criminology. Cullompton: Willan.
  

Electronic Core Texts

• Brown, S. (2005) Understanding youth and crime: listening to youth? 2nd edn. Maidenhead: OUP.
• Carrabine, E. et. al. (2009) Criminology: a sociological introduction. 2nd edn. London : Routledge.
• Hughes, G. (1998) Understanding crime prevention: social control, risk and late modernity. Buckingham: OUP.
• Hudson, B. (2003) Understanding justice: an introduction to ideas, perspectives and controversies in modern penal theory. 2nd edn. Buckingham: OUP.
• Maguire, M. et. al. (eds.) (2002) The Oxford handbook of criminology. 3rd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
• Taylor, I., Walton, P. and Young, J. (1988) The new criminology: for a social theory of deviance. New York: Routledge.
• Tierney, J. (2006) Criminology: theory and context. 2nd edn. Harlow: Longman.
• Walklate, S. (2007) Understanding criminology: current theoretical debates. 3rd edn. Maidenhead: OUP.

Printed Core Texts:

• Hale, C. et. al (eds.) (2009) Criminology. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Henry, S. and Lanier, M. (eds.) (2006) The essential criminology reader. Boulder, Co: Westview.
  
• Coleman, C. and Moynihan, J. (1996) Understanding crime data. Buckingham: OUP.
• McLaughlin, E., Muncie, J. and Hughes, G. (eds.) (2003) Criminological perspectives: essential readings. 2nd edn. London: Sage.
• Vold, G. et. al. (2002) Theoretical criminology. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
• Williams, K. (2004) Textbook on criminology. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  

Electronic Further Reading

• Box, S. (1989) Power, crime and mystification. London: Routledge.
• Clarke, J. et. al. (2006) ‘Chapter 1: subcultures, cultures and class’, in Hall, S. and Jefferson, T. (eds.) Resistance through rituals: youth subcultures in post-war Britain. 2nd edn. London: Routlege, pp. 3-59.
• Downes, D. (ed.) (2007) Crime, social control and human rights: from moral panics to states of denial: essays in honour of Stanly Cohen. Cullompton: Willan.
  
• Hollin, C. (1989) Psychology and crime: an introduction to criminal psychology. London: Routledge.
• Howitt, D. (2009) An introduction to forensic and criminal psychology. 3rd edn. Harlow: Pearson Education.
• Marsh, I. and Melville, G. (2008) Crime, justice and the media. London: Routledge.
• Pakes, F. and Winstone, J. (2007) Psychology and crime: understanding and tackling offending behaviour. London: Willan.
• Pitts, J. (2008) Reluctant gangsters: the changing face of youth crime. Cullompton: Willan.
• Sanders, B. (2005) Youth crime and youth culture in the inner city. London: Routledge.
• Silvestri, M. and Crowther-Dowey, C. (2008) Gender and crime. London: Sage.
  
• Taylor, I., Walton, P. and Young, J. (1988) ‘Chapter 1: Classical criminology and the positivist revolution’, in The new criminology: for a social theory of deviance. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-30.
• Thompson, K. (1998) Moral panics. London: Routledge.
• Walklate, S. (2004) Gender, crime and criminal justice. 2nd edn. Cullompton: Willan.
  

• Ainsworth, P. (2000) Psychology and crime: myths and reality. New York: Longman.
• Downes, D. and Rock, P. (2007) Understanding deviance: a guide to the sociology of crime and rule breaking. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Goode, E. and Ben-Yehuda, N. (2009) Moral panics: the social construction of deviance. 2nd edn. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
  
• Jewkes, Y. (2004) Media and crime. London: Sage.

 Peer Reviewed Journals

• Criminal Justice Matters
• The British Journal of Criminology

Electronic Journal Articles

• Garland, D. (1985) ‘The criminal and his science’, British Journal of Criminology, 25(2), pp. 109-137.

Useful Databases

Ebscohost Research Databases - search several Ebscohost databases simultaneously to find useful journal articles. Be sure to tick the boxes for 'full text' and 'peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles'. Particularly useful databases for this module are:

• Academic Search Elite
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• E-journals
• PsycINFO
• SocINDEX

Sage Premier - Full text articles from journals published by Sage including: Crime, Media, Culture; Criminal Justice Review; Criminology & Criminal Justice; Punishment & Society and many more.

NewsBank Newspapers UK -search all the national (any many of the local) UK and Ireland newspapers for the last 10 years - all at the same time.