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A unique text/reader that takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the study of criminology

This new edition of the authors′ popular text/reader provides instructors and students with the best of both worlds--authored text with carefully selected accompanying readings. Thoroughly updated throughout, this Second Edition provides an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality that incorporates the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and the neurosciences.

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Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Section 1 Introduction and Overview of Crime and Criminology
• Section 2 Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior
• Section 3 The Early Schools of Criminology and Modern Counterparts
• Section 4 Social Structural Theories
• Section 5 Social Process Theories
• Section 6 Critical Theories: Marxist, Conflict and Feminist
• Section 7 Psychosocial Theories: Individual Traits and Criminal Behavior
• Section 8 Biosocial Approaches
• Section 9 Developmental Theories: From Delinquency to Crime to Desistance
• Section 10 Violent Crimes
• Section 11 Multiple Murder and Terrorism
• Section 12 Property and Crime
• Section 13 Public Order Crime
• Section 14 White-Collar and Organized Crime
• Section 15 Victimology: Exploring the Experience of Victimization

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Anthony Walsh , is a professor of criminology at Boise State University. He received his PhD from Bowling Green State University at the ripe old age of 43. He has field experience in law enforcement and corrections and is the author of more than 150 journal articles and book chapters and 41 books, including Biology and Criminology; Feminist Criminology Through a Biosocial Lens; Law, Justice, and Society (with Hemmens); Correctional Assessment, Casework, and Counseling (with Stohr); The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction (with Bolen, Ashgate); Corrections: The Essentials (with Stohr); The Science Wars: The Politics of Gender and Race; Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions; Biosociology: Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide; Criminology: The Essentials (with Jorgensen); and Answering Atheists: How Science Points to God and the Benefits of Christianity . His interests include biosocial criminology, statistics, and criminal justice assessment and counseling.

Craig Hemmens is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. He holds a JD from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a PhD in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. Professor Hemmens has published 20 books and more than 200 articles, many dealing with legal issues in criminal justice. He currently serves as editor of the Criminal Law Bulletin and previously served as the editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education and as president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. His current research interests include criminal law and procedure.