The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

With contributions from leading authorities, this is the definitive guide to current criminological theory, research, and policy. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology provides a comprehensive collection of chapters covering the core and emerging topics studied on criminology courses, indispensable to students, academics, and professionals alike. · 43 chapters written by over 85 leading academics exploring relevant theory, cutting-edge research, policy developments, and current debates, encouraging students to appreciate the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of criminological discourse · Includes detailed references to aid further research · Chapters updated to reflect recent cases, statistics, and scholarship, as well as significant current events such as Covid-19 and social justice movements. · New chapters added presenting research on topical issues including victimology, hate crime, desistance, cybercrime, atrocity crimes, convict criminology, security and smart cities, prison abolitionism, comparative criminology, sex offending, and network criminology. Digital formats and resources The seventh edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - The accompanying online resources include essay questions and links to useful websites for each chapter, along with guidance on answering essay questions and access to chapters from previous editions.

0 - Introduction: Renewing our vision
1 - Sociological theories of crime
2 - Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives
3 - Towards a global comparative criminology
4 - The changing role of data in crime, criminal justice and criminology
5 - Developmental and life-course criminology: an overview
6 - Turning over a new leaf: desistance research for a new generation
7 - Urban criminal collaborations
8 - Drug use, drug problems, and drug control: a political economy perspective
9 - Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
10 - Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
11 - Crime news, trial by media, and scandal hunting
12 - Criminology and atrocity crimes
13 - Contagion and connections: applying network thinking to violence and organised crime
14 - Demystifying hate crime in an age of crises
15 - Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
16 - Where is 'victimology' in an era of #MeToo?
17 - Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
18 - Domestic violence
19 - Prostitution and sex work
20 - Understanding and rehabilitating men with sexual convictions: theory, intervention, and compassion
21 - Cybercrime: a social ecology
22 - White-collar and corporate crime  
23 - Social harm and zemiology 
24 - Green criminology 
25 - Crime and consumer culture
26 - Security and everyday life in uncertain times
27 - Crime prevention as urban security
28 - Security and smart cities
29 - Policing and the police
30 - Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
31 - Understanding penal decision-making: courts, sentencing and parole
32 - Youth justice in an age of uncertainty: principles, performance, and prospects
33 - Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
34 - Punishment, victimhood, and social control: towards a criminology of transitional justice
35 - The punishment-welfare relationship: history, sociology, and politics
36 - Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
37 - Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
38 - Reconfiguring and reimagining penal power
39 - Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
40 - Why prison architecture and design matter to our understanding of the limits of punishment and rehabilitation
41 - 'Hounding power into a corner': prison abolitionism in England and Wales
42 - Convict criminology without guarantees: proposing hard labour for an unfinished criminology
43 - Criminological engagements

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. She has attracted research fellowships from Trinity Hall, Leverhulme and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology at Queen's University Belfast and President of the American Society of Criminology. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and Cambridge University. Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology in the Law School at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. A past President of the European Society of Criminology, Lesley was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List 2018 for services to Criminology, and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021.