期刊名称：International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
印刷版ISSN：2202-7998
电子版ISSN：2202-8005
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：124-126
DOI：10.5204/ijcjsd.v5i2.324
语种：English
出版社：Queensland Uuniversity of Technology
摘要：This addition to the Sage: Key Concepts series will be invaluable to anyone with a serious interest in academic criminology, whether student, teacher, researcher or practitioner. Somewhere between textbook and encyclopaedia, Key Concepts in Crime and Society will be particularly useful as both an introduction to and a refresher for a range of topics central to the criminological endeavour. Essentially a primer, but one that goes into more depth than, say, the Sage Dictionary of Criminology (McLaughlin and Muncie 2012) and that engages more critically with its subject matter than the average introductory textbook, the primary audience is likely to be undergraduate students: I will definitely be recommending it to my own. It is certainly a great teaching tool, especially useful for those who find themselves teaching outside their preferred specialist areas or covering those topics they haven’t really looked at since their own student days, or that weren’t even part of the canon back then. But it will also be useful for researchers and practitioners, again as an introduction to new areas of interest or to refresh and update knowledge of older, part-forgotten ones. For reasons outlined below, it is not a substitute for a more traditional textbook, nor for a comprehensive dictionary or encyclopaedia, but is definitely complementary to both.
