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Understanding crime and criminology Crime and punishment in history Crime data and crime trends Crime and the media The politics of crime and its control Introduction The advent of ‘penal welfarism’ End of the first bipartisan consensus Managerialism Centralisation The politics of crime and punishment in the USA Newburn’s Criminology is already an indispensable text for students trying to navigate and make sense of the diverse and fast changing field of criminological scholarship. This updated edition builds on the strengths of the first two. There are few texts on the market, if any, which balance comprehensive coverage and accessibility as well as this one. total stranger who asks for money. When refused, the stranger becomes violent. The stranger robs the pedestrian and leaves them needing hospital treatment. There is little doubt that most people, on having this situation described to them, would call what happened ‘a crime’. Indeed, in many ways this example represents one of the most common fears that many of us have (Stanko, 1990). The second example is more unusual. It arises out of the seizure of videotapes during a police raid. One of these videos shows a number of men Edwin Sutherland – someone who you will get to meet regularly throughout this book – defined criminology as the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and of society’s reaction to the breaking of laws. Whilst this is by no means a comprehensive definition of criminology – criminologists may be interested, for example, in various forms of behaviour that do not involve the breaking of laws but, nevertheless, bring forth some form of social sanction – it does help point us in the direction of what are arguably the three great tributaries that make up the subject:

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criminology as the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and of society’s reaction to the breaking of laws. Whilst this is by no means a comprehensive definition of criminology – criminologists may be interested, for example, in various forms of behaviour that do not involve the breaking of laws but, nevertheless, bring forth some form of social sanction – it does help point us in the direction of what are arguably the three great tributaries that make up the subject: O White-collar and corporate crime Introduction Edwin Sutherland and white-collar crime Distinguishing between white-collar and corporate crime Exploring white-collar crime Theft at work Fraud Employment offences Consumer offences Food offences Environmental crime State-corporate crime Explaining white-collar and corporate crime Differential association Self-control Neutralisation Critical theory Shaming Understanding white-collar crime White-collar offenders

Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science

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Comprehensive in its coverage and written in a manner that is accessible to all students, the third edition of Criminology underlines why it is the undergraduate textbook. The classic sections have been complemented by new chapters that help students understand how crime control does not take place in a vacuum (The Politics of Crime and its Control), as well as encouraging students to think critically about the crime information we consume (Crime Data and Crime Trends). The most valuable aspect of the text is how core research methods concepts are provided in the same books as criminological content, which helps students to see, and understand, the crucial link between theory and research. Without doubt, this textbook provides the starting point for any criminological discussion." During the twentieth century, he suggests, these gradually merged and changed to form the basis for what we recognise these days as criminology. The term criminology seems first to have been used by Paul Topinard, a Frenchman studying the body types of criminals, though the invention of the term itself is generally credited to an Italian academic lawyer, Raffaele Garofalo. Both are associated with the second stream of work identified above – which Garland names after the Italian scholar, Cesare led to considerable conflict and, particularly in many working-class areas of the major cities, police officers were regularly assaulted. Indeed, some areas were barely policed at all, the decision being taken by senior officers to attempt to contain, rather than control, the problems that existed. Yet, as Emsley (1996: 80) shows, ‘it would be wrong to conceive of the relationship between the working class and the police in the second half of the nineteenth century as entirely one of mutual hostility’. Although the political rhetoric that the new police were there to serve and protect everyone may have been slightly overblown, nevertheless, over the course of the nineteenth century there appeared to be growing acceptance of the police by at least sections of the working class – quite likely those with something that needed protection. At this point, it is worth pausing and reflecting on police history. How best to understand this momentous development – the introduction of the new police? As a number of authors – most notablyCriminology is a flexible resource. It can be used as an introductory text for Criminology, as well as related courses on criminal justice, criminological theory, crime and society, understanding crime and punishment and criminological research methods. Criminology’ is by far the best, most comprehensive and authoritative textbook available. The third edition provides updated material on recent developments and an invaluable new chapter on the politics of crime control. The clarity of the writing, the breadth and depth of coverage, the links to further reading and to other relevant resources all make this a perfectly balanced introduction to the subject. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Tim Newburn considers how we can study trends in crime, and use them to inform preventative policy and criminal justice. Analysing the history of crime, he discusses the role of criminology in crime control and politics. New and updated crime data and analysis of trends, plus new content on recent events such as the Volkswagen scandal, the latest developments on historic child abuse, as well as extended coverage throughout of the English riots

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Stephen MacDaniel, a mid-eighteenth-century thief taker who led a gang alleged to have ‘preyed on innocent, friendless young men and boys, tempting them into crime only to give them up to the courts and collect the rewards’. risk that an accused would be acquitted or convicted of a lesser charge for which no reward was offered’. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century and the passage of the County and Borough Police Act 1856 that the police became much more centrally involved in the process of bringing prosecutions. As they did, so the role of the ‘victim’ changed substantially. It is not that they no longer brought prosecutions – private prosecutions are still possible today, of course – merely that, from this point onward, the balance in bringing prosecutions shifted markedly toward the state. A further way in which the role of the citizen changed in relation to criminal justice is in the use of self-defence. Certainly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there appears to have been Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and author of Tom Jones, was also Chief Magistrate, based at Bow Street in London, and an early architect of formal policing. As with policing, there are two broadly contrasting approaches to making sense of the evolution of the criminal law during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. On the one hand, there is a largely consensual model, again focusing on progress and on the rationalisation and bureaucratisation of the legal system, and a more conflictual model that asks ‘in whose interests’ is the law operating. Godfrey and Lawrence argue that Leon Radzinowicz’s path-breaking multi-volume, History of the English Criminal Law (published between 1948 and 1986) falls into the former category. In the latter category we find Marxist historians such as Douglas Hay, Edward Thompson, and others. Intriguingly, it appears that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was relatively rare for violence to be prosecuted unless it resulted in death. There is much disagreement among historians as to the extent to which it is accurate to view the legal system as a means of protecting the rights of the propertied and regulating the lives of the poor. There is considerable evidence to support E.P. Thompson’s (1975: 264) contention that ‘the law did mediate existent class relations to the advantage of the rulers’. However, other historians such as Beattie (1986) have shown that, to a large extent, the interests of the propertied formed a relatively small part of the business of the courts, and although the law was clearly applied unequally, the picture is more complex and nuanced than simple ‘class interest’ accounts allow for. Victims, victimisation and victimology 365 Understanding victims and victimology The victim of crime The emergence of victimology Victim-precipitation Victim-blaming Approaches to victimology Positivist victimologyA new chapter on politics, reflecting the ever increasing coverage of political influence and decision-making on criminology courses The third of the developments – though they all occurred at roughly the same time – was the establishment of the British Society of Criminology (BSC). ISTD had established a ‘Scientific Group for the Discussion of Delinquent Problems’ in 1953. However, not everyone was happy with its activities and discussions, in particular with the continued dominance of psychiatric and other clinical perspectives. A number of members broke away in the late 1950s and established the BSC. Though this was intended to herald a shift in perspective, it would not do to exaggerate it. In a paper to the 1971 British Sociology conference, Stan Cohen observed that the BSC was multidisciplinary, ‘with a heavy bias in a clinical direction’. Considers how criminology can be used to measure crime, and evaluate the effectiveness of preventative measures Part 5 Critical issues in criminology 32 Race, crime and criminal justice Introduction Sources of data The evidence The evidence against the men comprised the videotape and their own statements. When they were questioned by the police, the men were so confident that their activities were lawful (because they had consented to them) that they freely admitted to taking part in the activities on the video. Without these statements and the videotape, the police would have had no evidence to present