The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. She has attracted research fellowships from Trinity Hall, Leverhulme and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology at Queen's University Belfast and President of the American Society of Criminology. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and Cambridge University.Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology in the Law School at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. A past President of the European Society of Criminology, Lesley was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List 2018 for services to Criminology, and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021.

The Handbook has long been essential for me, both as a student and a teacher. The new edition is every bit as significant as its predecessors - the updates that have been made are exciting and ensure that it retains its relevance.

• 0: Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna, and Lesley McAra: Introduction: Renewing our vision Part I: Conceptions of Crime and Criminology 1: Paul Rock: Sociological theories of crime 2: Nicola Lacey and Lucia Zedner: Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives 3: Manuel Eisner: Towards a global comparative criminology 4: Susan McVie and Ben Matthews: The changing role of data in crime, criminal justice and criminology 5: Darrick Jolliffe and Katherine M. Auty: Developmental and life-course criminology: an overview 6: Beth Weaver, Hannah Graham, and Shadd Maruna: Turning over a new leaf: desistance research for a new generation 7: Alistair Fraser and Dick Hobbs: Urban criminal collaborations 8: Toby Seddon and Alex Stevens: Drug use, drug problems, and drug control: a political economy perspective 9: Ailbhe O Loughlin and Jill Peay: Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime 10: Mike Hough and Julian V. Roberts: Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice 11: Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin: Crime news, trial by media, and scandal hunting Part II: Critical Contemporary Issues 12: Andy Aydin-Aitchison, Mirza Buljubasic, and Barbora Holá: Criminology and atrocity crimes 13: Paolo Campana: Contagion and connections: applying network thinking to violence and organised crime 14: Neil Chakraborti and Amy Clarke: Demystifying hate crime in an age of crises 15: Coretta Phillips, Ben Bowling, and Alpa Parmar: Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice 16: Adrian Grounds, Maria Ttofi, and Lidia Puigvert: Where is 'victimology' in an era of #MeToo? 17: Michele Burman and Loraine Gelsthorpe: Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice 18: David Gadd: Domestic violence 19: Jo Phoenix: Prostitution and sex work 20: Belinda Winder and Nick Blagden: Understanding and rehabilitating men with sexual convictions: theory, intervention, and compassion 21: Ben Collier and Alice Hutchings: Cybercrime: a social ecology 22: Michael Levi and Nicholas Lord: White-collar and corporate crime   23: Victoria Canning, Paddy Hillyard, and Steve Tombs: Social harm and zemiology  24: Avi Brisman and Nigel South: Green criminology  25: Keith Hayward and Oliver Smith: Crime and consumer culture Part III: Security, Policing, and Prevention: Visions of Justice 26: Ian Loader, Richard Sparks, Ben Bradford, Ryan Casey, Evi Girling, and Gosia Polanska: Security and everyday life in uncertain times 27: Adam Crawford, Susan Donkin, and Christine A. Weirich: Crime prevention as urban security 28: Ben Bradford and Pete Fussey: Security and smart cities 29: Trevor Jones, Tim Newburn, and Robert Reiner: Policing and the police 30: Martin Innes and Michael Levi: Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology 31: Nicky Padfield and Cyrus Tata: Understanding penal decision-making: courts, sentencing and parole 32: Lesley McAra: Youth justice in an age of uncertainty: principles, performance, and prospects 33: Meredith Rossner: Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream 34: Kieran McEvoy, Ron Dudai, and Cheryl Lawther: Punishment, victimhood, and social control: towards a criminology of transitional justice Part IV: Punishment and the Penal State 35: David Garland: The punishment-welfare relationship: history, sociology, and politics 36: Katja Franko: Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society 37: Mary Bosworth: Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power 38: Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling: Reconfiguring and reimagining penal power 39: Gwen Robinson and Fergus McNeill: Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation 40: Yvonne Jewkes: Why prison architecture and design matter to our understanding of the limits of punishment and rehabilitation 41: Joe Sim: 'Hounding power into a corner': prison abolitionism in England and Wales 42: Rod Earle, Danica Darley, Bill Davies, David Honeywell, and Ed Schreeche-Powell: Convict criminology without guarantees: proposing hard labour for an unfinished criminology 43: Alison Liebling, Fergus McNeill, and Bethany E. Schmidt: Criminological engagements