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British Association for Women in Policing British Crime Survey (see also CSEW) Basic Command Unit British Society of Criminology a complete update of the text, including more cross referencing and links to further reading, both in print and online; Psychological positivism Introduction Psychoanalysis and crime Bowlby and ‘maternal deprivation’ Learning theories Newburn's Criminology is already an indispensable text for students trying to navigate and make sense of the diverse and fast changing field of criminological scholarship. This updated edition builds on the

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Magistrates’ courts The magistracy The Crown Court The judiciary Juries Pre-trial decisions Bail and remand Bail Remand Offending while on bail Mode of trial decision Defendants’ rights Pleas and bargaining Charge bargaining Plea bargaining Evidence Disclosure Exclusion Appeals Miscarriages of justice Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Tim Newburn’s Criminology continues to be a valuable resource to students seeking to engage with the capacious field that is criminology. The revised chapter on the politics of crime provides a neat, nuanced account of the politics of crime control over the past 50 years. In conjunction with the chapters on late modernity and penology (to take one set of examples), it will equip the inquisitive student with the tools with which to dive further into the murky depths of the politics of criminal justice. An enjoyable, engaging and authoritative text. Introduction The advent of ‘penal welfarism’ End of the first bipartisan consensus Managerialism Centralisation The politics of crime and punishment in the USA Youth Justice Board Youth Lifestyles Survey Young Offenders Institution Youth Offender Panel Youth Offending Service Youth Offending Team Late modernity, governmentality and risk The transition to late modernity Surveillance Changes in property relations A new regulatory state? Foucault and governmentality Discipline and Punish Governmentality theory The dispersal of discipline The discipline of Disney World Risk and the new culture of control Garland and The Culture of Control Risk, crime and criminal justice Assessing governmentality, the new penology and risk Governmentality The new penology Risk Questions for further discussion Further reading WebsitesIntroduction Classical criminology Beccaria Jeremy Bentham The impact of classicism Positivism and criminology Defining positivism Cesare Lombroso Ferri and Garofalo Charles Goring Somatyping The impact of positivism Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites This document was uploaded by our user. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish

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Newburn's Criminology has established itself as the market leading textbook in the subject for the UK market. Affectionately known by students and instructor as 'the Criminology Bible' (for its size as well as its reputation); it is an accessible and engaging 'one-stop-shop' for a Criminology degree, covering everything topic you will study over three years. Understanding criminological research 993 Introduction Research methods Surveys Questionnaire design Interviews Focus groups Ethnography Documentary analysis Case studies Sampling Random (or probability) sampling Stratified sampling Quota sampling Purposive sampling Convenience sampling Snowball sampling Statistics Descriptive statistics Numerical and categorical data Normal distribution Correlation Probability and significance Controversy: evaluation and experimentation Experimental methods Quasi-experimental methods Evaluation research Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Criminal and forensic psychology Psychology and criminology History of psychology and criminology Individual factors in crime Risk and protective factors Individual risk factors Family factors Socio-economic, peer, school and community factors Risk factors and crime prevention Developmental or life course criminology Sampson and Laub Moffitt’s theory of offending types Farrington’s ICAP theory Mental disorder and crime The prevalence of mental disorders Mental disorder and offending Understanding mental disorder and crime Policing and psychology Offender profiling Assessing profiling Legal and ethical issues Crime analysis Investigative interviewing Confessions Lying and lie detection Statement validity analysis The courtroom and psychology Recall/eyewitness testimony Vulnerable witnesses Children as witnesses Juries Juries and evidence Juries and other influences Jury composition Decision-making Treatment of offenders and ‘what works’ Cognitive skills programmes Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Penology and punishment What is punishment? Utilitarian or consequentialist approaches Deterrence General deterrence Individual deterrence Rehabilitation Incapacitation Retributivism Just deserts The sociology of punishment Émile Durkheim Max Weber Marxism Norbert Elias Michel Foucault The impact of Foucault Conclusion: an era of mass incarceration? Questions for further discussion Further reading Websites Crime and the media Introduction Academic study of the media Media representations of crime Newsworthiness The crime content in the media Violent crime in the news Are the media criminogenic? Media effects Media and fear of crime Moral panics Mods and rockers Drug use and deviancy amplification Mugging Criticisms of moral panic theory Policing and the media The relationship between the police and the media The representation of policing Crime and the internet Policing cybercrime Representing terror Questions for further discussion Further reading WebsitesPart 5 Critical issues in criminology 32 Race, crime and criminal justice Introduction Sources of data Control theories Introduction Reckless’s containment theory Inner containment Neutralisation and drift theory Drift Social bond theory Four elements of the social bond Testing social bond theory Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime Low self-control Assessing the general theory of crime Tittle’s control-balance theory Relating control-balance to crime Assessing control theory Questions for further discussion Further reading Tim Newburn’s Criminology continues to be a valuable resource to students seeking to engage with the capacious field that is criminology. The revised chapter on the politics of crime provides a neat, nuanced account of the politics of crime control over the past 50 years. In conjunction with the chapters on late modernity and penology (to take one set of examples), it will equip the inquisitive student with the tools with which to dive further into the murky depths of the politics of criminal justice. An enjoyable, engaging and authoritative text."