The essential criminology reader

Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henry’s best-sellingEssential Criminologytextbook, this new reader is an up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses.The Essential Criminology Readercontains 30 original articles on current developments in criminological theory. Commissioned specifically forThe Reader, these short essays were written by leading scholars in the field. Each chapter complements one of 13 different theoretical perspectives covered in Lanier and Henry’sEssential Criminologytext and contains between two and three articles from leading theorists on each perspective. Each chapter ofThe Readerfeatures: a brief summary of the main ideas of the theory the ways the author’s theory has been misinterpreted/distorted criticisms by others of the theory and how the author has responded a summary of the balance of the empirical findings the latest developments in their theoretical position policy implications/practice of their theory