1st Edition

A Sociology of Crime

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

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.