A Sociology of Crime

This newly updated second edition of Eglin and Hester’s well respected A Sociology of Crime, evaluates the current state of criminalization globally and asks what sociology’s various perspectives have to say about it. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive stance but greatly widens its theoretical range, including dedicated chapters on gender, race and class. It now also provides questions, exercises and further readings alongside its detailed analysis of a new set of contemporary international examples.