Criminology : theory and context / John Tierney.

London : Prentice-Hall, 1996.

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Criminology -- History.

Crime -- Sociological aspects.

Part I. Preliminaries and early history: 1. Criminology, crime and deviance : some preliminaries

2. Measuring crime and criminality

3. Criminology and criminologists up to World War Two

Part II. World War Two to the mid-1960s: 4. The discipline of criminology and its context - 1

5. Social disorganization and anomie

6. Strain, subcultures and delinquency

7. Criminology theory in Britain

Part III. The mid-1960s to the early 1970s: 8. The discipline of criminology and its context - 2

9. New deviance theory : the interactionist approach to deviance

Part IV. The 1970s: 10. The discipline of criminology and its context - 3 : post-new deviance

11. Post-new deviance and the new criminology

Part V. The discipline of criminology and its context - 4

13. criminological theory.

Includes index.

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xii, 324 p.