Shereen Hassan
Publisher
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The text gives due attention to the historical "canon" of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the...