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Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology, 5th Edition

Author: Darren Palmer, Willem de Lint, Derek Dalton, Ian Warren, Frank Morgan, Joseph Clare, Richard Evans, Emma Ryan, Greg Martin and Stuart Ross  

ISBN / EAN: 9780455238647
This textbook is prescribed for the following courses:
ATSGC1283 - Crime: Theory And Practice / The Criminal Justice Process Federation University
ATSGC1284 - Crime: Theory And Practice / The Criminal Justice Process Federation University
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Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology has been for many years a leading Australian textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching this field of study for the first time. The contributors are well known research-active academics in Australia who contribute to the criminological debate at a national and international level. Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition offers a comprehensive guide to criminal justice and criminology that is well suited to a two or three-semester approach. It covers a wide range of topics including: different forms of crimes - from street crime to state crime and international crimes; who commits crimes and who are the victims of crimes; and how society responds to crime. It also includes a dedicated chapter on 'criminology study skills' that will be of benefit to students across their studies. This book offers a balance between the critical and administrative criminological traditions, adding to the discourse of crime and justice in the 21stcentury. This fifth edition, with 10 new authors and 31 returning authors, features seven new chapters: Chapter 2: The distribution of crime over populations, space and time Chapter 4: Explanations of crime Chapter 15: Criminal justice system - Aims and processes Chapter 18: Privatisation in the criminal justice system Chapter 26: Remedies for miscarriages of justice Chapter 27: Criminology in Australia - Past, present and future Chapter 29: Study skills for Criminology Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology 5th Edition is essential reading for students of criminal justice, criminology, penology, policing, sociology, justice and society studies, and legal studies. Practitioners interested in these areas would also be well-served by this text.

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Publisher
Law Book Co of Australasia
Published
22nd December 2016
Edition
5th
ISBN
9780455238647

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ISBN / EAN: 9780455238647
This textbook is prescribed for the following courses:
ATSGC1283 - Crime: Theory And Practice / The Criminal Justice Process Federation University
ATSGC1284 - Crime: Theory And Practice / The Criminal Justice Process Federation University
Use our Textbook Finder to find the rest of your Textbooks!
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