Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING CRIME ; PART 1: CRIME AND CRIMINALITY ; 1. Doing Criminology ; 2. Crime and the Media ; 3. Traditional Criminological Theory ; 4. Mainstream Perspectives ; 5. Challenges to Criminological Orthodoxies ; 6. Victims and Victimology ; 7. Crime and Social Inequality ; 8. Crime and Social Difference ; 9. Crimes Against Property ; 10. Crimes Against the Person ; 11. Crimes Against Convention ; 12. Crimes of the Powerful ; 13. Transnational Crimes and Global Criminology ; INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL JUSTICE ; PART 2: INSTITUTIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE ; 14. Police Roles and Techniques ; 15. Different Policing for Different People ; 16. Forensic Studies ; 17. Law and the Legal Profession ; 18. Courts and Court Processes ; 19. Access and Alternatives to Justice ; 20. Judicial Decisions and Sentencing ; 21. Punishment and Penalty ; 22. Incarceration and Prisonisation ; 23. Community Corrections ; 24. Recidivism, Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice ; 25. Crime Prevention

About the Author

Rob White is a Professor at the School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania. Santina Perrone is a Senior Policy and Program Advisor in the Department of Justice.