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For sophomore/junior level courses in Introduction to Criminology or Criminology courses in Sociology, Criminal Justice and Political Science departments. The American crime picture has changed, and Criminology Today 3e UPDATE has changed with it, including the most up to date coverage available of terrorism, white-collar crime and other issues of major concern to criminologists at the start of the 21st century. Interesting, timely, and relevant, Criminology Today 3e UPDATE helps students draw their own conclusions about the American crime problem, prepare for the future, and learn to make informed decisions about public policy in the crime-control area.

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• I The Crime Picture
• 1 What Is Criminology? What Is Crime? Crime and Deviance
• What Should Be Criminal? What Do Criminologists Do? What Is Criminology? Criminology and Social Policy
• The Theme of This Book
• The Social Context of Crime
• The Primacy of Sociology?
• 2 Patterns of Crime
• A History of Crime Statistics
• Crime Statistics Today
• Patterns of Change
• The Crime Problem
• Major Crimes
• Part II Offenses
• Other Sources of Data
• Unreported Crime
• The Social Dimensions of Crime
• The Costs of Crime
• 3 Research Methods and Theory Development
• The Science of Criminology
• Theory Building
• The Role of Research
• Quantitative Versus Qualitative Methods
• Values and Ethics in the Conduct of Research
• Social Policy and Criminology Research
• Writing the Research Report
• II Crime Causation
• 4 Classical and Neo-Classical Thought
• Major Principles of the Classical School
• Forerunners of Classical Thought
• The Classical School
• Neoclassical Criminology
• Punishment and Neoclassical Thought
• Policy Implementations of the Classical School
• A Critique of Classical Theories
• 5 Biological Roots of Criminal Behavior
• Major Principles of Biological Theories
• Biological Roots of Human Aggression
• Genetics and Crime
• Crime and Human Nature: A Contemporary Synthesis
• Policy Issues
• Critiques of Biological Theories
• 6 Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior
• Major Principles of Psychological Theories
• Early Psychological Theories
• Criminal Behaviors as Maladaptation
• Crime as Adaptive Behavior
• Modeling Theory
• Behavior Theory
• Attachment Theory
• Self-Control Theory
• Insanity and the Law
• Social Policy and Forensic Psychology
• Criminal Psychological Profiling
• 7 Sociological Theories I: Social Structure
• Major Principles of Sociological Theories
• Social Structure Theories Defined
• Types of Social Structure Theories
• Policy Implications of Social Structure Theories
• Critique of Social Structure Theories
• 8 Sociological Theories II: Social Process and Social Development
• The Social Process Perspective
• Types of Social Process Approaches
• Policy Implications of Social Process Theories
• Critique of Social Process Theories
• The Social Development Perspective
• Concepts in Social Development Theories
• Policy Implications of Social Development Theories
• Critique of Social Development Theories
• 9 Sociological Theories III: Social Conflict
• Law and Social Order Perspectives
• Radical-Critical Criminology
• Emerging Conflict Theories
• Policy Implications
• III Crime in the Modern World
• 10 Crimes Against Persons
• Violent Crime Typologies
• Homicide
• Rape
• Robbery
• Assault
• Stalking
• Terrorism
• 11 Crimes Against Property
• Persistent and Professional Thieves
• Larceny Theft
• Burglary
• Stolen Property
• Arson
• 12 White-Collar and Organized Crime
• White-Collar Crime
• Organized Crime
• Policy Issues: The Control of Organized Crime
• 13 Drug Abuse and Crime
• History of Drug Abuse in the United States
• Types of Illegal Drugs
• Drug Trafficking
• Drugs and Crime
• Social Policy and Drug Abuse
• 14 Technology and Crime
• The Advance of Technology
• High Technology and Criminal Opportunity
• A Profile of Computer Criminals
• The Information Superhighway and Data Security
• Technology in the Fight against Crime
• Combating Computer Crime
• Policy Issues: Personal Freedoms in the Information Age
• What the Future Holds
• IV Responding to Criminal Behavior
• 15 Criminology and Social Policy
• Federal Anticrime Initiatives
• Crime Control Philosophies Today
• Criminology and Social Policy
• The Victim''s Movement
• Can We Solve the Problem of Crime?
• 16 Future Directions
• Future Crimes
• The New Criminologies
• Policies of the Future
• Glossary
• Subject Index
• Name Index

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Frank Schmalleger, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is also director of the justice Research Association (JRA), a private consulting firm and think tank focusing on issues of crime and justice. The Justice Research Association, which is based in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, serves the needs of the nation's civil and criminal justice planners and administrators through workshops, conferences, and grant-writing and program-evaluation support. JRA also supports the Criminal Justice Distance Learning Consortium (CJDLC), which can be found on the Web at http://cjdlc.org, Talk Justice (http://talkjustice.com), and the Cybrary also known as "the world's criminal justice directory" (http://cybrary.info).

Dr. Schmalleger holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University, having earned both a master's (1970) and a doctorate in sociology (1974) from Ohio State University with a special emphasis in criminology. From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For the last 16 of those years he chaired the university's Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Schmalleger helped develop the university's graduate program in security administration and loss prevention. He taught courses in that curriculum for more than a decade. Schmalleger has also taught in the New School for Social Research's online graduate program, helping build the world's first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications. An avid Web surfer and site builder, Schmalleger is also the creator of award-winning World Wide Web sites, including one which supports this textbook (http://www.crimtoday.com).

Frank Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and many books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century (Prentice Hall, 2003), now in its seventh edition; Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, fifth edition (Prentice Hall, 2004); Criminal Law Today (Prentice Hall, 2002); with John Smykla, Corrections in the 21st Century (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001); Crime and the Justice System in America: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997); Trial of the Century: People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson (Prentice Ha11,1996); Career Paths: A Guide to Jobs in Federal Law Enforcement (Regents/Prentice Hall, 1994); Computers in Criminal Justice (Wyndham Hall Press, 1991); Criminal Justice Ethics (Greenwood Press, 1991); Finding Criminal Justice in the Library (Wyndham Hall Press, 1991); (Wyndham Hall Press, 1990); A History of Corrections (Foundations Press of Notre Dame, 1983); and The Social Basis of Criminal Justice (University Press of America, 1981). Schmalleger is also founding editor of the journal The Justice Professional.

Schmalleger's philosophy of both teaching and writing can be summed up in these words: "In order to communicate knowledge we must first catch, then hold, a person's interest be it student, colleague, or policymaker. Our writing, our speaking, and our teaching must be relevant to the problems facing people today, and they must in some way help solve those problems."