Overview
Seeks to establish Family Criminology as a new sub-discipline of Criminology that aligns with other subject areas across the social sciences
Adopts an interdisciplinary approach that explores the complex ways in which families, crime and the criminal justice system interact throughout the life-course
Speaks to those interested in all aspects of crime and family life, including scholars and practitioners from Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Social Anthropology, Law, Human Rights and Criminology
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This full-colour textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life. In doing so, it proposes a brand new sub-discipline of Criminology that places the family at the heart of its analysis, offering a groundbreaking approach to the study of crime and deviance. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this introductory text explores topics from across the spectrum of criminological scholarship, including youth justice, prisons, organized crime, family violence and homicide, and victimology.
By drawing together these distinct topics and identifying and discussing their familial connections, this book argues for the importance of family life in the theory and practice of crime and justice. Key questions discussed throughout the text include: How does the criminal justice system engage with families across different contexts? In what ways do crime and criminal justice processes impact on family life? In what ways can families transform the criminal justice system for the betterment of all? This book challenges commonly-held and simplistic assumptions about what the family is in relation to crime and justice and, by doing so, engages in deeper debates about human rights, social justice and the role of the state in relation to families and crime. It includes pedagogic features including conceptual toolboxes, questions for reflection, textboxes, a glossary and interviews with practitioners.
Reviews
“Each chapter proceeds by way of elaboration of key concepts and definitions, followed by a rehearsal of the core theories and debates ... . the book knowledgeably covers a great deal of ground. The text itself is supplemented by a host of diagrams, figures and tables to illustrate key aspects of the discussion ... . The case studies are especially useful and could easily lend themselves to class exercises searching for other cases raising similar issues.” (Peter Squires, The British Journal of Criminology, January 7, 2023)
“This book treats the family and all the events and processes that affect them as warrantable objects of scholarly inquiry under one umbrella. Family Criminology synthesizes an array of disparate theoretical frameworks and data sources from a truly impressive number of interdisciplinary fields and integrates them into a cogent framework. This pioneering book continues the tradition of examining the family as a source of delinquency while teasing out the implications of crime and criminal justice institutions on the family members themselves. For researchers and students who are interested in all aspects of violence that affect the family, this book is a must-read and will surely be the definitive guide to be emulated by others in the field” (Phillip C. Shon, Ph.D., Professor, Ontario Tech University)
“Family Criminology: An Introduction challenges criminology to rethink the how family life is both thought of and researched within the discipline. Here Amanda Holt centres the family and family life, in all of its troubled and troublesome formations, in laying out an agenda for the discipline. This agenda recognises the family, in all its forms, as neither invisible nor marginal to people's lives but the lens through which to make sense of them. It is a provocative, engaging read, written in an accessible style from which any student of criminology will learn a great deal” (Prof. Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, Liverpool, conjoint Chair of Criminology, Monash)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Criminology
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Amanda Holt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71169-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71168-9Published: 18 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71169-6Published: 17 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 283
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Victimology, Prison and Punishment, Violence and Crime, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy