Towards a Realist Criminology: Review of Roger Matthews (Editor) What Is to Done about Crime and Punishment? Towards a “Public Criminology”. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
This
review of the 11 chapters in this overview of a “realistic” approach to
criminology, recommends this book as a text for use in graduate courses in
criminology, public policy and the sociology of deviance. We focus in particular
on chapters which advocate legal reforms on behalf of women forced to work in
prostitution, and which elaborate the approach of Critical Realism as a model
of social research for the emancipation of oppressed minorities.
Cite this paper
Bagley, C. (2018). Towards a Realist Criminology: Review of Roger Matthews (Editor) What Is to Done about Crime and Punishment? Towards a “Public Criminology”. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Open Access Library Journal, 5, e4376. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1104376.
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