Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to 40th anniversary edition -- The New Criminology : where we came from, where we are going -- Situating The New Criminology -- The Millsian vision -- The golden age of American sociology of deviance -- The New Criminology and the NDC -- The New Criminology: the explanatory agenda -- The immediate years: Policing the Crisis and The New Criminology -- Realist and cultural criminology: the subsequent years -- Is cultural criminology necessarily idiographic? -- The tendencies of social institutions and situations -- History and change -- Progress in scope and in theory -- The pieces of the puzzle come together -- Bibliography -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Classical criminology and the positivist revolution -- The classical school of criminology -- Neo-classical revisionism -- The positivist revolution -- The quantification of behaviour -- Scientific neutrality -- The determinism of behaviour -- 2. The appeal of positivism -- The consensus world view -- The determinism of behaviour -- The science of society -- The meshing of interests -- Lombroso -- Body types in biological positivism -- The XYY chromosome theory -- Eysenck -- Trasler -- Conclusion -- 3. Durkheim and the break with 'analytical individualism' -- Durkheim's break with positivism -- Durkheim's view of human nature -- Durkheim on anomie and the division of labour -- Durkheim on 'the Normal and the Pathological' -- Durkheim as a biological meritocrat -- Durkheim and a social theory of deviance -- 4. The early sociologies of crime -- Merton and the American Dream -- The typology of adaptations -- Merton-the cautious rebel -- A pluralistic society -- Mertonian anomie theory and a social theory of deviance -- The Chicago school and the legacy of positivism.

The city, social problems and capitalist society -- The struggle for space and a sociology of the city -- The struggle for space and the phenomenology of the ecological structure -- Society as an organism -- Criticisms of differential associations theory -- Behaviourist revisions to Sutherland's theory -- The theory of subcultures and beyond -- 5. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career -- What is the social reaction or labellingapproach to deviance? -- Deviance, behaviour and action -- Primary and secondary deviance and the notion of sequence or career -- Social reaction: theory or perspective? -- Power and politics -- Conclusions -- 6. American naturalism and phenomenology -- The work of David Matza -- Subterranean values, neutralization and drift -- Pluralism -- The late Matza: becoming deviant? -- American phenomenology and the study of deviance: ethnomethodology -- Ethnomethodology and the phenomenological project -- The ethnomethodological critique -- 7. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime and social control -- Willem Bonger and formal Marxism -- Conclusion -- 8. The new conflict theorists -- Austin Turk and Ralf Dahrendorf -- Authority, stratification and criminalization -- Richard Quinney and the social reality of crime -- 9. Conclusion -- 1. The wider origins of the deviant act -- 2. Immediate origins of the deviant act -- 3. The actual act -- 4. Immediate origins of social reaction -- 5. Wider origins of deviant reaction -- 6. The outcome of the social reaction on deviant's further action -- 7. The nature of the deviant process as a whole -- The new criminology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Licensed e-book