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
- how society responds to crime.
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
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