Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book presents a summary of the key ideas that seek to explain criminal behavior and the measures that have been developed to prevent crime in the UK. A broad overview of the UK's criminal justice system is provided in order to explain the operations of the key criminal justice agencies and the processes that are involved in bringing offenders to justice. Readers are encouraged to develop the basic knowledge they have obtained in these areas by tackling a number of questions and making use of additional reading of key texts suggested in the book. Attention is devoted to key sources from which information regarding crime and the criminal justice system can be explained. Readers are also introduced to the wide variety of methods that can be used to carry out criminological research. The book is interactive, containing a number of 'taking it further' exercises that are designed to encourage readers to extend their knowledge derived from the book into more complex areas using additiona