A Sociology of Crime: Second Edition

by Stephen K. Hester, Peter Eglin, Stephen Hester

A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and organizational use of language.

In this welcome second edition, the book reviews and evaluates the current state of criminological theory from this "grammatical"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138960489
• ISBN13: 9781138960480
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 566 Pages