Criminological perspectives: essential readings.

The Reader is organised into six sections: Part One: Criminological Formations; Part Two: Crime Causation; Part Three: Criminalisation; Part Four: Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention; Part Five: Discipline and Governance; Part Six: Criminological Transformations. It contains new readings on: • social control theory • opportunity theory • gender and crime control • race and criminalisation • the governance of crime • psycho-social criminology • cultural criminology • global criminology