The origins of criminology : a reader /
edited by Nicole Rafter.
- Abingdon : Routledge, 2009.
- xxvi, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"A GlassHouse book".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Criminology is a field of study which purports to bring scientific knowledge to the world of crime and criminals. The book brings together a collection of 19th-century texts from key originators of the practice of criminology - selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter.