Crime and justice : a guide to criminology / edited by Ben Livings, Katherine McLachlan, Nerida Chazal, Rick Sarre.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited, 2025.

7th edition

203060

Criminology -- Australia.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.

Part 1: Understanding crime

1. The nature of crime

2. Measuring crime

3. Crime and the media

4. Explanations of crime

5. Social harm and zemiology

6. Youth, online and crime

7. Cybercrime

8. Crime in the streets

9. Crimes and other harms within the home and for the homeless

10. White-collar and corporate crime

11. Environmental crime

12. Globalisation and crime

13. International crimes

Part 2: The criminal justice system

14. Criminal justice systems: aims and processes

15. Police and policing

16. Imprisonment and detention

17. Community corrections and community-based sanctions

18. Victims and victimology

19. Experts, lay people and forensics

20. Restorative justice: values, practices and debates

21. Privatisation in criminal justice and the Australian experience

22. Crime prevention and reduction

Part 3: Critical perspectives and emerging issues

23. Failures of justice

24. Remedies for miscarriages of justice

25. Criminal justice and human rights

26. Inequalities and justice

27. Decolonising criminology and law

28. Young people, crime, and youth justice in Australia

29. Crime in remote and rural areas.

Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology begins exactly where a critical teaching text should – by challenging the very concept at the centre of the discipline. From this foundation it builds into a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key topics in crime and crime control that embraces complexity and debate, avoiding a common tendency to oversimplify. Fully revised and updated, this seventh edition offers an exhaustive guide to criminal justice and criminology that can be readily adapted to any university course. It covers a wide array of topics including: different forms of crime – from hyper-visible street-level offences to less visible ‘corporate’ crimes perpetrated in office towers; who commits crimes (and why); the experiences of victims of crime; and how society seeks to combat and reduce crime and victimisation. This seventh edition covers more contemporary subjects too, such as globalisation and crime, environmental crime, and cybercrime. It also includes a new section dedicated to engaging with the key critical and emerging issues in criminology today, such as re-shaping youth justice, and decolonising criminology. Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology 7th edition is essential reading for students of criminal justice, criminology, penology, policing, sociology, justice and society studies, and legal studies. Practitioners and workers in agencies (both government and non-government) who are engaged in criminal justice issues would also be well-served by this text. – Extract from publisher's website.

Previous edition 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780455248851

x, 820 pages ; 25 cm