Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory

It is immediately easy to see how the print version of this work has filled two volumes and it is not just because of the theoretical complexity of the subject matter. The Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory is written in a rich, scholarly style; the kind that is deliberately dense so as to make the reader slow down and consider each point, but with a slightly more conversational tone than might be expected of a similarly muscular academic tome from Britain. It is a style that makes this American authored and centred text accessible and absorbing for the layperson, student and...