Although, like most textbooks, we investigate these central tenets, the scope of
our textbook encompasses a wider conceptualisation of criminology than conventional
mainstream books. A vast majority of textbooks (and scholarship) in criminology
are solely focused on visible street crimes, for example. Our critical and
victimological perspectives allow for a more far-reaching exploration and examination
of explanations of a more expanded notion of harm and crime and approaches
to their control. All of this is situated within a framework of power. Here, too,
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