Essential Criminology

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This bestselling crimninology text offers a concise introduction to the nature and extent of crime while surveying core perspectives on crime causation and their policy implications with a sociological context.

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Full title :Essential Criminology.

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Publication Date:2015.
Edition:4th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Credo Reference
Place of Publication:Boston, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Founders of Anomie and Strain Theory.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0813348854, 9780813348858, 9780813348865, 0813348862
oclc:ocn994598679
LC Classification:HV6025 .L25 2015
Dewey Decimal:364

Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. What Is Criminology? The Study of Crime, Criminals and Victims in a Global Context; Globalization; What Is Criminology?; What Is Victimology?; Criminology and Public Policy; Summary and Conclusion; Discussion Questions; 2. What Is Crime? Defining the Problem ; Legal Definition; Consensus and Confl ict Approaches; Hagan's Pyramid of Crime; Crime Prism; Application of the Prism to the Problem of School Violence; Crimes of the Powerless; Crimes of the Powerful; Summary and Conclusion; Discussion Questions.

3. Classical, Neoclassical, and Rational-Choice TheoriesThe Preclassical Era; The Classical Reaction; Neoclassical Revisions; Criminal Justice Implications: The Move to "Justice" Theory; Redefining Rational Choice: Situational Factors and Routine-Activities Theory ; Conceptual and Empirical LImitations: What the Research Shows ; Summary and Conclusion; Summary Chart: Classica, Rational-Choice, and Routine-Activities Theories ; Discussion Questions; 4. ""Born to Be Bad"" Biological, Physiological, and Biosocial Theories of Crime ; Biological and Positivistic Assumptions; The Born Criminal.

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