Key Readings in Criminology provides a comprehensive single-volume collection of readings in criminology. It provides students with convenient access to a broad range of excerpts (over 150 readings) from original criminological texts & key articles & is designed to be used either as a st&-alone text or in conjunction with the same authors textbook Criminology. This volume can be used in a number of ways in support of the study of criminology: as a source of both key & supplementary reading for lectures as the basis for organized reading in advance of seminars & tutorials as the basis for classroom discussion & analysis as a broad source of reading for exam revision in addition it provides students with access to a broad range of materials with which to follow up their reading of their main textbook
Includes:: readings that include both more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues as well as excerpts from criminological classics introduces students not only to criminological argument & debate but also encourages them to read primary as well as secondary or summary sources.