Recommended Additional Reading
Tim Newburn, Key Readings in Criminology, Chapter Twenty and Chapter Twenty-One
Sarah Lamble, ‘Queer Necropolitics and the Expanding Carceral State: Interrogating Sexual Investments in Punishment’ (2013) 24:3 Law and Critique 229. (Optional)
Questions to think about:
– Violent Crime and Hate Crime
1. What has been the general trend in violent crime over the last 20 years?
2. What are the problems associated with defining ‘violent crime’?
3. Why are we so concerned with serial killers?
4. In what ways is gender relevant to a discussion about violent crime?
5. Looking back to the various theories of crime and criminal behaviour that we have looked at so far, how useful are they in understanding violent crime?
6. What is meant by the term ‘civilising process’ in relation to violent crime?
7. What exactly constitutes a ‘hate crime’?
8. Why is the existence of ‘hate crime’ legislation controversial?