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• Feature Boxes Preface Author Biography
• 1 The Study of Crime
• The Nature of Crime and Delinquency
• The Characteristics of Crime Juvenile Delinquency
• Social Origins of the Criminal Law Historical Perspectives
• Theoretical Perspectives Strategies of Criminological
• Research Comparative and Historical Research Biographies Patterns of Crime
• The Cohort Study Surveys Other Strategies of Criminological Research Summary Important Terms
• Review Questions For Further Study
• 2 Measuring Crime
• The Emergence of Modern Criminology Classical Criminology
• Cartography Positivism Official Crime Statistics History of Crime Statistics in the United States FBI
• Crime Statistics Crime Rates Gathering Crime Statistics
• Using FBI Data for Criminological Research Measuring
• Criminal Victimization History of Victimization Surveys Comparing NCVS and FBI Data
• The Dark Figure Methodological Problems with Victimization Surveys
• Measuring Crime by Self-Reports History of Self-Report Studies
• The Dark Figure Methodological Problems with Self-Report Studies
• Summary Important Terms Review Questions For Further Study
• 3 Crime and Its Costs Conventional Crimes Crimes of Violence Property Crimes
• White-Collar Crime Is White-Collar Crime Different?
• The Costs of White-Collar Crime Organized Crime
• The Costs of Organized Crime Victimless Crimes
• Drug Use Gambling Prostitution Summary Important
• Terms Review Questions For Further Study
• 4 Dimensions of Crime Cross-National Variations in Crime
• Rates Regional Variations in Crime Rates within the United States
• Variations in Crime Rates by Community Crime
• within Metropolitan Areas Migration and Crime Temporal Variations in Crime Rates Seasonal Variations in Crime Rates
• Annual Trends in Crime Rates Variations in Crime Rates by Sex Sex and Juvenile
• Delinquency Sex and Crime Sex and Victimization Variations in Crime Rates by Age
• Age-Specific Arrest Rates Age Distribution and Crime Rates
• Age and Victimization Variations in Crime Rates by Race Race
• Arrest Statistics, and Self-Report Studies Race, Crime, and Background
• Variables Race and Victimization Variations in Crime Rates by Social
• Class Social Class and Adult Crime Social Class and Juvenile Delinquency
• Methodological Problems Social Class and Victimization Summary
• Important Terms Review Questions For Further Study
• 5 Biological and Psychological Explanations of Crime Biological
• Explanations of Crime History of the Biological
• Perspective on Crime Modern Biological
• Research on Crime Biology and Modern Criminology
• Psychological Explanations of Crime Intelligence and Crime Personality
• Characteristics Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders
• Psychology and Variations in Crime Rates Psychology and the Criminal
• Law Summary Important Terms Review Questions For Further Study
• 6 Social, Cultural, and

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John E. Conklin, professor of sociology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, was born in Oswego, New York, in 1943 and raised in Syracuse, New York. After earning a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1965, he completed his doctorate at Harvard University in 1969 and did research at Harvard Law School's Center for Criminal Justice for one year before taking a position at Tufts, where he now offers courses in criminology, crime and the media, sociology of law, and sociology of sexual behavior.

Professor Conklin's first book, Robbery and the Criminal Justice System (1972), was based on data he gathered in Boston. He also wrote The Impact of Crime (1975), a study of community reactions to crime, and "Illegal but Not Criminal": Business Crime in America (1977). The first of nine editions of Criminology appeared in 1981. Art Crime --a study of theft, forgery, and fraud in the art world--was published in 1994. His New Perspectives in Criminology (Allyn & Bacon, 1996) is an edited collection of papers published by leading criminologists during the 1990s. In 2003, Allyn & Bacon published Professor Conklin's Why Crimes Rates Fell , an examination of the reasons that crime declined so dramatically in the 1990s.