This book answers the basic questions - what is crime? what is criminology?, before examining the ways in which crime has been studied, and looking at the main approaches and schools of thought within criminology and how these have been developed.

Clive Coleman is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Hull.

Clive Norris is Professor of Sociology, Head of Department, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at Sheffield University.

Introduction 1. Crime, the criminal and criminology 2. Offenders and non-offenders: spot the difference? 3. A broader vision of crime 4. Thinking seriously about serial killers 5. Policing and the police: key issues in criminal justice 6. CCTV and crime prevention: questions for criminology 7. Criminology: some concluding thoughts