Author(s)

Christopher Bagley

Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

This review of the 11 chapters in this overview of a “realistic” approach to criminology, recommends this book as a text for use in graduate courses in criminology, public policy and the sociology of deviance. We focus in particular on chapters which advocate legal reforms on behalf of women forced to work in prostitution, and which elaborate the approach of Critical Realism as a model of social research for the emancipation of oppressed minorities.

Criminology, Critical Realism, Sex Work, Cybercrime, White Collar Crime, Prison Reform

Bagley, C. (2018) Towards a Realist Criminology: Review of Roger Matthews (Editor) What Is to Done about Crime and Punishment? Towards a “Public Criminology”. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-7. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104376.