This book focuses on the history and development of criminological thought from the pre-Enlightenment period to the present and offers a detailed and chronological overview of competing theoretical perspectives in criminology in their social and political context.
A summary of the current state of criminological knowledge and a vision for the future of criminology.
The book includes lists of further reading and chapter summaries, and is supported by timelines of key works and events. This book is essential reading for courses on criminological theory, criminal behaviour, criminal psychology and biosocial criminology.
1. In keeping with the growing influence of evidence-based policy in the social sciences, this book offers a sustained focus on the relationship between theory and research and the impact on policy.
2. This book does not consider theory in isolation, but instead in social, political and historical context.
3. Each chapter is consistently structured focusing on the origins and development of and empirical support for each theory, as well as policy implications, and includes learning objectives, a chapter summary, discussion questions and lists of further reading.
4. This book delves deeper into recent developments in criminological theory, particularly developmental and biosocial criminology.
Chad Posick - Author of Development of Criminological Thought and Great Debates in Criminology.