1st Edition

A Sociology of Crime

By Peter Eglin, Stephen Hester Copyright 1992
    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which will be of great value to students.

    Preface 1 Sociology and crime 2 Constructing criminal law 3 Criminalization and domination 4 Ethnomethodology's law 5 Policing as symbolic interaction 6 The ethnomethodology of policing 7 The political economy of policing 8 Discipline, domination and criminal justice 9 Justice and symbolic interaction 10 Ethnomethodology in court 11 Crime and punishment 12 The functions of crime control

    Biography

    Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Stephen Hester, University of Wales, Bangor.