Description
| Product ID: | 9780367185756 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Key Ideas in Criminology |
| Title: | Historical Criminology |
| Authors: | Author: David Churchill, Iain Channing, Henry Yeomans |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | History, History, Crime and criminology, Causes and prevention of crime, Legal aspects of criminology, Legal history, Criminal justice law, Crime & criminology, Causes & prevention of crime, Criminology: legal aspects, Legal history, Criminal justice law |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its potential to enhance, revise and fundamentally challenge dominant modes of thinking about crime and social responses to crime. This book sets an agenda for the development of historical approaches to criminology. It defines ‘historical criminology’, explores its characteristic strengths and limitations, and considers its potential to enhance, revise and fundamentally challenge dominant modes of thinking about crime and social responses to crime. It considers the following questions:
In this book, Churchill, Yeomans and Channing situate ‘historical thinking’ at the heart of historical criminology, reveal the value of historical research to criminology and argue that criminologists across the field have much to gain from engaging in historical thinking in a more regular and sustained way. This book is essential reading for all criminologists, as well as students taking courses on theories, concepts and methods in criminology. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-11-30 |
