Chapter 1 Useful websites

• The Blackwell online Encyclopaedia of Sociology, which can be accessed through university libraries
• The website for the British Society of Criminology and the American Society of Criminology
• The website for the British Journal of Criminology
• Search ‘crime and criminal justice journal’ for a list of useful journals in criminology
• The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
• A fine essay by Ken Plummer on the Chicago School
• See ASC Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice for American and other radical and critical criminology
• For routine activities and rational choice theory, any of the 'what works' websites are likely to be best:
  • Centre for Problem Oriented Policing
  • What Works Centre
  • Campbell Collaboration
• For feminism, see the Justice for Women website
• For up-to-date official crime statistics, see the Office for National Statistics
• For interactionism and ‘labelling’ theory, see Howard Becker's own webpages

* I am most grateful to Tim Newburn and Meredith Rossner for their help in compiling this list.