Building Complex Temporal Explanations of Crime: History, Institutions and Agency

by Stephen Farrall

This book seeks to bring understanding of both complexity and temporality into criminology. It outlines why these are important in criminological models of causation and explanation and explores them by drawing on theories and approaches in political science, comparative history, social theory and systems analyses. It discusses what is meant by complexity and introduces historical institutionalism (which is rarely used in criminology) to criminological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030748294
• ISBN13: 9783030748296
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"