What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

• Realist Criminology
• Prisons
• Criminological Theory
• Prostitution
• Community Safety
• domestic violence
• cybercrime
• prostitution
• drugs
• gangs
• probation
• white-collar crime
• crime and society
• corporate crime
• Critical Realism
• Middle Range

• University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

  Roger Matthews

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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