This collection provides a comprehensive single-volume collection of readings in criminology. It provides students with convenient access to a broad range of excerpts (over 150 readings) from original criminological texts and key articles, and it is designed to be used either as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with author Tim Newburn's textbook, Criminology. This volume is beneficial in a number of ways in support of the study of criminology: as a source of both 'key' and supplementary reading for lectures, as the basis for organized reading in advance of seminars and tutorials, as the basis for classroom discussion and analysis, and as a broad source of reading for exam revision. Key Readings in Criminology provides students with access to a broad range of materials. It contains readings that include both more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues as well as excerpts from criminological classics. Key Readings in Criminology also encourages students to r