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A Guide to the Sociology of Crime and Rule-breaking
This is the new edition of the textbook, 'Understanding Deviance', that guides the new student through the major sociological theories of crime, devia...
Essays in Honour of David Downes
This book is a collection of pathbreaking essays by the foremost criminologists currently working in the UK. It contains up-to-the-moment essays on Ne...
Understanding Deviance is an essential guide to criminological theory framed in a Canadian context. Prominent theorists such as Durkheim, Merton, and ...
Post-war Penal Policy in the Netherlands and England and Wales
A comparative study of the Dutch penal system with the one in England and Wales. This book offers a critique of the Dutch policy and prisons, upheld f...
A Study Across Three Areas
ntil this study was published in 1976, barely any evidence existed against which to assess the claim that gambling has become a major social problem. ...
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The material gathered in this volume spans David Downes's career starting with his early and original contributions to the comparative study of anomie...
How Children Become Members of Their Society
The politics of law and order. Volume IV
This is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, and examines the changing politics of law and order, charting the ...
a sociological analysis of recent theorisation on delinquent subcultures, and its relevance to delinquency in two east London boroughs
Volume IV: the Politics of Law and Order
"This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Previous volumes have focused on the moral reforms of the 19...