This three-volume set is the definitive reference tool for criminology and criminal justice students, researchers, and practitioners worldwide John Muncie presents a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary pieces that define the study of crime Each volume includes an introduction by the editor, tcontextualize the historical, theoretical, and empirical significance of the articles contained therein Volume 1: The Meaning of Crime: Definition, representation and social constructionThis volume introduces key issues in the definition of crime, examining legal, historical, moral and social constructions of crimeVolume 2: The Causes of CrimeExplanations of crime are various, diverse and contradictory This volume brings together some of the major criminological paradigms (biological, psychological and sociological) which have attempted tlocate the causes of crimeVolume 3: Radical and Critical CriminologiesThis volume introduces how radical, feminist and critical schools of criminology started taddress the issue not of why offending occurred, but of how particular images of crime were constructed and maintainedCollectively, the volumes provide ready access tthe key debates about and disputes within the academic study of crime as they have emerged over the past 120 years
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