Part 1 Understanding crime and criminology
1. Understanding crime and criminology
2. Crime and punishment in history
3. Crime data and crime trends
4. Crime and the media
5. The politics of crime and its control
Part 2 Understanding crime: theories and concepts
6. Classicism and positivism
7. Biological positivism
8. Psychological positivism
9. Durkheim, anomie and strain
10. The Chicago School, subcultures and cultural criminology
11. Interactionism and labelling theory
12. Control theories
13. Radical and critical criminology
14. Realist criminology
15. Contemporary classicism
16. Feminist criminology
17. Late modernity, governmentality and risk
18. Southern Criminology
Part 3 Understanding crime: types and trends
19. Victims, victimisation and victimology
20. White-collar and corporate crime
21. Organised crime
22. Violent and property crime
23. Drugs and alcohol
Part 4 Understanding criminal justice
24. Penology and punishment
25. Understanding criminal justice
26. Crime prevention and community safety
27. Policing
28. Criminal courts and the court process
29. Sentencing and non-custodial penalties
30. Prisons and imprisonment
31. Youth crime and youth justice
32. Restorative justice
Part 5 Critical issues in criminology
33. Race, crime and criminal justice
34. Gender, crime and justice
35. Criminal and forensic psychology
36. Green criminology
37. Globalisation, terrorism and human rights
Part 6 Doing criminology
38. Understanding criminological research
39. Doing criminological research
Biography
Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and former Official Historian of Criminal Justice. He is the author of nearly 50 books, most recently Reading Riots: Protest and Violence n Late Modernity (2026), The Official History of Criminal Justice, Vol. V: Policing Post-War Britain: Plus ça Change (Routledge, 2024) and Orderly Britain: How Britain resolved its everyday problems: from dog mess to double-parking (with Ward, 2022).
