The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance

The New Criminology is one of the seminal texts in Criminology. First published in 1973, it marked a watershed moment in the development of critical criminological theory and is as relevant today as it was forty years ago. It was one of the first texts to bridge the gap between criminological and sociological theory and demonstrated the weaknesses of classical and positivist criminology.

Reproduced unabridged, this fortieth anniversary edition includes a brand new introductory essay from Jock Young and is essential reading for all serious students engaged in criminological theory and is destined to inspire future generations.

Author: Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/20/2013
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780415855877

About the Author

Jock Young is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. His work has had a profound impact on criminology. Along with John Lea, Jock Young developed Left Realism Criminology and is now involved in a new theoretical development known as Cultural Criminology. He has published extensively across a wide range of areas including mass media, drugs, abortion, policing, criminal victimization, stop and search and ethnic minorities.He has just finished a trilogy on social exclusion: The Exclusive Society (Sage, 1999) The Vertigo of Late Modernity (Sage, 2007) and The Criminological Imagination (Polity Press, 2011).