%0 Journal Article
%T 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
%A Christopher Bagley
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 5
%N 2
%P 1-7
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2018
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1104376
%X <div style="text-align:justify;">
	<span style="line-height:1.5;">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 par</span><span style="line-height:1.5;">ticular
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.</span>
</div>
%K Criminology
%K Critical Realism
%K Sex Work
%K Cybercrime
%K White Collar Crime
%K Prison Reform
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5293118