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What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?

Towards a 'Public Criminology'

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Editors:
  1. Roger Matthews

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

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  • Asks what can be done about key issues such as: imprisonment, drugs, gangs, cybercrime and prostitution

  • Offers an authoritative analysis of ‘realist’ criminology

  • Argues that cultural criminology has much to learn from an engagement with realism

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Towards a Public Criminology

    • Roger Matthews
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Violence Divide: Taking “Ordinary” Crime Seriously in a Volatile World

    • Elliott Currie
    Pages 9-30

  4. Domestic Violence: The Increasing Tensions Between Experience, Theory, Research, Policy and Practice

    • Nicole Westmarland, Liz Kelly
    Pages 31-55

  5. Critical Realism and Gang Violence

    • John Pitts
    Pages 57-88

  6. Middle-Range Radical Realism for Crime Prevention

    • Nick Tilley
    Pages 89-122

  7. Policing: Past, Present and Future

    • Ben Bowling, Shruti Iyer, Robert Reiner, James Sheptycki
    Pages 123-158

  8. Seven Ways to Make Prisons Work

    • Francis T. Cullen, Daniel P. Mears, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Angela J. Thielo
    Pages 159-196

  9. Five Steps Towards a More Effective Global Drug Policy

    • Caroline Chatwin
    Pages 197-221

  10. Taming Business? Understanding Effectiveness in the Control of Corporate and White-collar Crime

    • Fiona Haines
    Pages 223-250

  11. Cybercrime 4.0: Now What Is to Be Done?

    • Michael R. McGuire
    Pages 251-279

  12. Addressing Prostitution: The Nordic Model and Beyond

    • Helen Johnson, Roger Matthews
    Pages 281-308

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 309-324
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About this book

This book responds to the claim that criminology is becoming socially and politically irrelevant despite its exponential expansion as an academic sub-discipline. It does so by addressing the question 'what is to be done' in relation to a number of major issues associated with crime and punishment.


The original contributions to this volume are provided by leading international experts in a wide range of issues. They address imprisonment, drugs, gangs, cybercrime, prostitution, domestic violence, crime control, as well as white collar and corporate crime. Written in an accessible style, this collection aims to contribute to the development of a more public criminology and encourages students and researchers at all levels to engage in a form of criminology that is more socially relevant and more useful.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Roger Matthews

About the editor

Roger Matthews is Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK. His main areas of interest and research include imprisonment, sex trafficking and prostitution, social theory, crime prevention and community safety. He is author of Prostitution, Politics and Policy (2008), Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment (2009), Realist Criminology (2014) and is co-author of Exiting Prostitution: A Study in Female Desistance (2014). He is currently involved in an ESRC funded research project examining patterns of victimisation in the inner city.

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