Textbook on criminology / Katherine S Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This text offers an engaging and wide-ranging account of crime and criminology. It provides a clear and comprehensive consideration of the theoretical, practical, and political aspects of the subject, including the influence of physical, biological, psychological, and social factors on criminality.

What is criminology theory? -- Definitions, terminology and the criminal process -- Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime -- The extent of crime : a comparison of official and unofficial calculations -- Victims, survivors and victimology -- Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminality -- Influences of biochemical factors and of the central autonomic nervous systems on criminality -- Psychological theories of criminality -- Mental disorder (psychopathology) and criminality -- Intelligence and learning -- The sociology of criminality -- Anomie, strain and the juvenile subculture -- Control theories -- Labelling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology -- Critical criminology : conflict, radical and cultural criminologies -- Criminology and realism -- Positivist explanations of female criminality -- Feminist theories -- Terrorism and State violence -- Governance, risk and globalisation theories.