Criminological perspectives

This reading details ethnicities, racism, crime and criminal justice. There are many useful statistics for essays on this topic from the Crime survey of England and Wales and more. There are official statistics from victim descriptions of offenders, homicide and weapon data, domestic violence, homicide and more. There is also notes on policing and minority communities including the Stephen Lawrence Project. It finishes off with notes on the criminal justice process.

This document contains many notes I've made on some of the important base theories for criminology. This includes Durkheim and his functionalist perspective of crime, Marxist and conflict theories, the Chicago school as well as the zonal theory.

The document provided is a key reading required in this course.

One of the core modules on this course is Criminological Perspectives. The documents provided are notes for key readings.