A Sociology of CrimeThe 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. |
Contents
1 Sociology and crime | 1 |
2 Constructing criminal law | 27 |
3 Criminalization and domination | 47 |
4 Ethnomethodologys law | 71 |
5 Policing as symbolic interaction | 91 |
6 The ethnomethodology of policing | 117 |
7 The political economy of policing | 141 |
8 Discipline domination and criminal justice | 166 |
9 Justice and symbolic interaction | 189 |
10 Ethnomethodology in court | 208 |
11 Crime and punishment | 230 |
12 The functions of crime control | 258 |
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