The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. She has attracted research fellowships from Trinity Hall, Leverhulme and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology at Queen's University Belfast and President of the American Society of Criminology. He has previously taught at the University of Manchester and Cambridge University. Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology in the Law School at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. A past President of the European Society of Criminology, Lesley was awarded a CBE in the New Year's Honours List 2018 for services to Criminology, and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021.

0: Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna, and Lesley McAra: Introduction: Renewing our vision
Part I: Conceptions of Crime and Criminology
1: Paul Rock: Sociological theories of crime
2: Nicola Lacey and Lucia Zedner: Criminalization: historical, legal and criminological perspectives
3: Manuel Eisner: Towards a global comparative criminology
4: Susan McVie and Ben Matthews: The changing role of data in crime, criminal justice and criminology
5: Darrick Jolliffe and Katherine M. Auty: Developmental and life-course criminology: an overview
6: Beth Weaver, Hannah Graham, and Shadd Maruna: Turning over a new leaf: desistance research for a new generation
7: Alistair Fraser and Dick Hobbs: Urban criminal collaborations
8: Toby Seddon and Alex Stevens: Drug use, drug problems, and drug control: a political economy perspective
9: Ailbhe O Loughlin and Jill Peay: Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
10: Mike Hough and Julian V. Roberts: Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
11: Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin: Crime news, trial by media, and scandal hunting
Part II: Critical Contemporary Issues
12: Andy Aydin-Aitchison, Mirza Buljubasic, and Barbora Holá: Criminology and atrocity crimes
13: Paolo Campana: Contagion and connections: applying network thinking to violence and organised crime
14: Neil Chakraborti and Amy Clarke: Demystifying hate crime in an age of crises
15: Coretta Phillips, Ben Bowling, and Alpa Parmar: Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
16: Adrian Grounds, Maria Ttofi, and Lidia Puigvert: Where is 'victimology' in an era of #MeToo?
17: Michele Burman and Loraine Gelsthorpe: Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
18: David Gadd: Domestic violence
19: Jo Phoenix: Prostitution and sex work
20: Belinda Winder and Nick Blagden: Understanding and rehabilitating men with sexual convictions: theory, intervention, and compassion
21: Ben Collier and Alice Hutchings: Cybercrime: a social ecology
22: Michael Levi and Nicholas Lord: White-collar and corporate crime  
23: Victoria Canning, Paddy Hillyard, and Steve Tombs: Social harm and zemiology 
24: Avi Brisman and Nigel South: Green criminology 
25: Keith Hayward and Oliver Smith: Crime and consumer culture
Part III: Security, Policing, and Prevention: Visions of Justice
26: Ian Loader, Richard Sparks, Ben Bradford, Ryan Casey, Evi Girling, and Gosia Polanska: Security and everyday life in uncertain times
27: Adam Crawford, Susan Donkin, and Christine A. Weirich: Crime prevention as urban security
28: Ben Bradford and Pete Fussey: Security and smart cities
29: Trevor Jones, Tim Newburn, and Robert Reiner: Policing and the police
30: Martin Innes and Michael Levi: Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
31: Nicky Padfield and Cyrus Tata: Understanding penal decision-making: courts, sentencing and parole
32: Lesley McAra: Youth justice in an age of uncertainty: principles, performance, and prospects
33: Meredith Rossner: Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
34: Kieran McEvoy, Ron Dudai, and Cheryl Lawther: Punishment, victimhood, and social control: towards a criminology of transitional justice
Part IV: Punishment and the Penal State
35: David Garland: The punishment-welfare relationship: history, sociology, and politics
36: Katja Franko: Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
37: Mary Bosworth: Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
38: Ben Crewe and Alison Liebling: Reconfiguring and reimagining penal power
39: Gwen Robinson and Fergus McNeill: Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
40: Yvonne Jewkes: Why prison architecture and design matter to our understanding of the limits of punishment and rehabilitation
41: Joe Sim: 'Hounding power into a corner': prison abolitionism in England and Wales
42: Rod Earle, Danica Darley, Bill Davies, David Honeywell, and Ed Schreeche-Powell: Convict criminology without guarantees: proposing hard labour for an unfinished criminology
43: Alison Liebling, Fergus McNeill, and Bethany E. Schmidt: Criminological engagements