Introduction Part I: Preliminaries and Early History 1. Criminology, crime and deviance: some preliminaries 2. Measuring crime and criminality 3. Criminology and criminologists up to World War Two Part II: World War Two to the Mid-1960s 4. The discipline of criminology and its context 5. Social disorganisation and anomie 6. Strain, subcultures and delinquency 7. Criminological theory in Britain Part III: The Mid-1960s to the Early 1970s 8. The discipline of criminology and its context 9. New deviancy theory: the interactionist approach to deviance Part IV: The 1970s 10. The discipline of criminology and its context 11. Post-new deviancy and the new criminology Part V: The 1980s to the Mid-1990s 12. The discipline of criminology and its context 13. Criminological theory Part VI: The Mid-1990s into the New Millennium 14. The discipline of criminology and its context 15. Theoretical perspectives: recent developments

This text explores the history and growth of criminology as an academic discipline and presents a detailed discussion of the major criminological theories that have developed as a result