Crime in Canadian Context

by William O'Grady

Crime in Canadian Context is an introductory level textbook that will provide students with a concise, yet thorough review of criminology in Canada today. The book focuses on key issues and questions recent to the discipline, while remaining sensitive to classical material that was so central
in shaping the early days of criminology.

Genres: Textbooks

231 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2007

Reviews

[The Wrath of Eleny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it for a class. Very informative and full of examples that were helpful to understanding the material. Only draw back is that there's literally almost no illustrations, and if there were they were black and white only, which could be overwhelming.

[Syd Larche · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this cover to cover from my criminology class and never dreaded it (uncommon for required course readings). Thorough explanations and applications to crime in Canada.

[Tom Oman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written and researched, this book moves along in a coherent enough manner to stay interesting. O'Grady uses examples and statistics that will keep the reader engaged. However, I realized the relative banality of this field of study while I read it. If it was not as well organized and brief as it was, I may not have finished. Overall, not a bad book if this kind of thing interests you.

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a book that I used for my criminology class, it was quite entertaining to read. Unlike most books about theories, which tend to be dry & boring, I found that this book was different & I actually enjoyed reading it!

[zita · Rating 4 out of 5]

had to do reading logs for this course at uni with these chapters and was genuinely so surprised by how interesting all of this was! i actually loved reading it ( less summarising it but… ) yeah highly recommend for non fiction!