Crime, Violence and Modernity

This is an outstanding book that reconnects and bridges the space between criminology and sociology. It not only develops a signal reconsideration of crime, violence and modernity, but also makes an intellectually scintillating contribution to understanding and appreciating the increasing relevance of sociological 'criminology' to wider social science globally. A brilliant book which deserves to be read and engaged with widely.

William Housley, Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

This is an outstanding book that reconnects and bridges the space between criminology and sociology. It not only develops a signal reconsideration of crime, violence and modernity, but also makes an intellectually scintillating contribution to understanding and appreciating the increasing relevance of sociological 'criminology' to wider social science globally. A brilliant book which deserves to be read and engaged with widely.

William Housley, Professor of Sociology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

"The significance of this book lies in its intellectually sophisticated and stimulating account of how 'sociological criminology' can flourish by reconstituting the classical-contemporary social scientific nexus to make sense of social (and criminal) complexities, with particular focus on crime and violence. There is no better guide on this intellectual journey than Hughes, who has produced an authoritative, readable and highly relevant work characterised by a detailed examination of the dynamics of theory, method and research within the production of knowledge on social bads."

Nicholas Lord, Professor of Criminology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester

This wish to move beyond a hermetically sealed criminology is at the heart of the book. Professor Hughes is on firm ground in challenging the view that criminology cannot flourish as a separate discipline unless it engages with this 'sociological turn', because all the evidence confirms that crime is generated as a consequence of persistent cross-generational inequalities.

Robert Mears, Professor of Sociology, Bath Spa University

Even over its core concepts, criminology today is riven with interdisciplinary and internecine disputes that obscure more than they reveal. Gordon Hughes's well-argued and equally well-demonstrated case for a sociological criminology that reconnects with its classical Eliasian and Weberian past provides a remarkably clear, timely and important path to enlightenment.

Dan Gilling, Reader in Criminology, University of Plymouth