Essential criminology

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Designed as an alternative to overly comprehensive, lengthy, and expensive introductory texts, Essential Criminology is, as its title implies, a concise overview of the field. The book guides students through the various definitions of crime and the different ways crime is measured.

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Full title :Essential criminology / Mark M. Lanier, Stuart Henry, Desiré J.M. Anastasia.

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Publication Date:2015
Edition:Fourth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Westview Press
Place of Publication:Boulder, Colorado
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

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Description:1 online resource (18 entries) : : 10 images

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781785391552, 1785391550, 9780813348865, 0813348862
oclc:on1003919784
LC Classification:HV6025
Dewey Decimal:364

List of tables and figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 What is criminology? The study of crime, criminals, and victims in a global context -- 2 What Is crime? Defining the problem -- 3 Classical, neoclassical, and rational-choice theories -- 4 "Born to Be Bad" biological, physiological, and biosocial theories of crime -- 5 Criminal minds: psychiatric and psychological explanations for crime -- 6 Learning criminal behavior: social process theories -- 7 Failed socialization: control theory, social bonds, and labeling -- 8 Crimes of place: social ecology and cultural theories of crime -- 9 The sick society: anomie, strain, and subcultural theory -- 10 Capitalism as a criminogenic society: conflict and radical theories of crime -- 11 Patriarchy, gender and crime: feminist criminological theory -- 12 New directions in critical criminological theory -- 13 conclusion: toward a unified criminology.