The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology

List of Contributors
List of Entries
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Editors' Introduction
The Sage Dictionary of Criminology
Subject Index
Name Index
Subject Index

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology at City University and is one of the UK's foremost authorities in the study of policing. John Muncie is Professor of Criminology at the Open University. He has published extensively on youth culture, youth justice and criminological theory.

With the publication of the third edition of this work Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie have consolidated their position as criminology's lexicographers. This thoughtful compilation will allow students to enhance their appreciation of the discipline's boundaries while at the same time sharpening their critical faculties so that they can redraw them.

Ian O'DonnellProfessor of Criminology, University College Dublin



Criminology has its own, special language and it can be confusing even to experienced criminologists. This Third Edition of The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology is an indispensible tool for interpreting and navigating this ever-changing field, with packed and theoretically weighty entries written by the original researchers and theoreticians themselves. Essential for teaching, studying and doing this thing we call criminology.

Shadd MarunaProfessor of Justice Studies, Queen's University Belfast



The editors should be commended on assembling an impressive array of contributors to comprehensively cover the historical and contemporary development of criminology. Theory, methods, policy and specialized areas are cogently explicated by leading authorities in the field offering perspectives from mainstream to critical criminology and everything in between. A great addition to any social scientific library!

David C. BrothertonProfessor and Co-Chair, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York