The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. She has attracted research fellowships from Trinity Hall, Leverhulme and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology at Queen's University Belfast and President of the American Society of Criminology. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and Cambridge University.Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology in the Law School at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. A past President of the European Society of Criminology, Lesley was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List 2018 for services to Criminology, and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021.

• 0: Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna, and Lesley McAra: Introduction: Renewing our visionPart I: Conceptions of Crime and Criminology1: Paul Rock: Sociological theories of crime2: Nicola Lacey and Lucia Zedner: Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives3: Manuel Eisner: Towards a global comparative criminology4: Susan McVie and Ben Matthews: The changing role of data in crime, criminal justice and criminology5: Darrick Jolliffe and Katherine M. Auty: Developmental and life-course criminology: an overview6: Beth Weaver, Hannah Graham, and Shadd Maruna: Turning over a new leaf: desistance research for a new generation7: Alistair Fraser and Dick Hobbs: Urban criminal collaborations8: Toby Seddon and Alex Stevens: Drug use, drug problems, and drug control: a political economy perspective9: Ailbhe O Loughlin and Jill Peay: Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime10: Mike Hough and Julian V. Roberts: Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice11: Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin: Crime news, trial by media, and scandal huntingPart II: Critical Contemporary Issues12: Andy Aydin-Aitchison, Mirza Buljubasic, and Barbora Holá: Criminology and atrocity crimes13: Paolo Campana: Contagion and connections: applying network thinking to violence and organised crime14: Neil Chakraborti and Amy Clarke: Demystifying hate crime in an age of crises15: Coretta Phillips, Ben Bowling, and Alpa Parmar: Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice16: Adrian Grounds, Maria Ttofi, and Lidia Puigvert: Where is 'victimology' in an era of #MeToo?17: Michele Burman and Loraine Gelsthorpe: Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice18: David Gadd: Domestic violence19: Jo Phoenix: Prostitution and sex work20: Belinda Winder and Nick Blagden: Understanding and rehabilitating men with sexual convictions: theory, intervention, and compassion21: Ben Collier and Alice Hutchings: Cybercrime: a social ecology22: Michael Levi and Nicholas Lord: White-collar and corporate crime  23: Victoria Canning, Paddy Hillyard, and Steve Tombs: Social harm and zemiology 24: Avi Brisman and Nigel South: Green criminology 25: Keith Hayward and Oliver Smith: Crime and consumer culturePart III: Security, Policing, and Prevention: Visions of Justice26: Ian Loader, Richard Sparks, Ben Bradford, Ryan Casey, Evi Girling, and Gosia Polanska: Security and everyday life in uncertain times27: Adam Crawford, Susan Donkin, and Christine A. Weirich: Crime prevention as urban security28: Ben Bradford and Pete Fussey: Security and smart cities29: Trevor Jones, Tim Newburn, and Robert Reiner: Policing and the police30: Martin Innes and Michael Levi: Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology31: Nicky Padfield and Cyrus Tata: Understanding penal decision-making: courts, sentencing and parole32: Lesley McAra: Youth justice in an age of uncertainty: principles, performance, and prospects33: Meredith Rossner: Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream34: Kieran McEvoy, Ron Dudai, and Cheryl Lawther: Punishment, victimhood, and social control: towards a criminology of transitional justicePart IV: Punishment and the Penal State35: David Garland: The punishment-welfare relationship: history, sociology, and politics36: Katja Franko: Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society37: Mary Bosworth: Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power38: Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling: Reconfiguring and reimagining penal power39: Gwen Robinson and Fergus McNeill: Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation40: Yvonne Jewkes: Why prison architecture and design matter to our understanding of the limits of punishment and rehabilitation41: Joe Sim: 'Hounding power into a corner': prison abolitionism in England and Wales42: Rod Earle, Danica Darley, Bill Davies, David Honeywell, and Ed Schreeche-Powell: Convict criminology without guarantees: proposing hard labour for an unfinished criminology43: Alison Liebling, Fergus McNeill, and Bethany E. Schmidt: Criminological engagements

The Handbook has long been essential for me, both as a student and a teacher. The new edition is every bit as significant as its predecessors - the updates that have been made are exciting and ensure that it retains its relevance.