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.
Peter Eglin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Stephen Hester, University of Wales, Bangor.
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
Georgin Moiseevich Zaslavskiî, R. Z. Sagdeev, D. A. Usikov, A. A. Chernikov, Georgin Moiseevich Zaslavskiî, Georgin Moiseevich (New York University) Zaslavskii, College Park) Sagdeev, R. Z. (University of Maryland, College Park) Usikov, D. A. (University of Maryland, New Jersey) Chernikov, A. A. (Stevens Institute of Technology, G. M. Zaslavskii, R. Z. Sagdeeva