This volume can be used 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;
- as a broad source of reading for exam revision;
- in addition it provides students with access to a broad range of materials with which to follow up their reading of their main textbook;
- it includes readings that include more recent summaries of particularly important criminological issues, as well as excerpts from criminological classics;
- it also introduces students not only to criminological argument and debate, but also encourages them to read primary as well as secondary or summary sources.