Criminal man
by Gibson, Mary, Lombroso, Cesare, Rafter, Nicole Hahn, Duke University Press
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Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language reade…
Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language reade…
Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language reade…
Advances in criminological theory
by Adler, Freda, Laufer, William S.
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Titles: v.3 Facts, frameworks, and forecasts ; v.4 New directions in criminological theory.
The papers in this volume examine the underlying social causes of criminal behaviour. The authors are concerned with both social-structural (e.g., age, sex, race, and family composition) and ecological (e.g., crowding, etc.) characteristics as important units of analysis of neig…
Over recent decades criminological research has changed from a gender-blind discipline which equated crime with men and thus ignored questions about gender, to an approach that studied gender by showing statistical differences between men and women, and then finally to a more in…