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Essential Criminology.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Credo Reference,
2015.
Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, [2015] |
| Edición: | 4th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Early US Family-Type and Body-Type TheoriesContemporary Biological Perspectives; Biosocial Criminology: A Developmental Explanation of Crime ; Conceptual and Empirical Limitations; Criminal Justice Policy Implications; Summary and Conclusion; Summary Chart: Biological Theory; Discussion Questions; 5. Criminal Minds: Psychiatrica and Psychological Explanations for Crime ; From Sick Minds to Abnormal Behavior; Shared Psychological Assumptions; The Psychoanalytic Approach; Trait-Based Personality Theories; Behavioural, Situational, and Social Learning and Modeling Theories ; Cognitive Theories.
- Ecological PsychologyEvolutionary Psychology; Summary and Conclusion; Summary Chart: Psychological Theories of Crime; Discussion Questions; 6. Learning Criminal Behavior: Social Process Theories ; Common Themes and Different Assumptions; Sutherland's Differential Association Theory; Cognitive Social Learning Theory; Neutralization Theory: Learning Rationalizations as Motives ; Summary and Conclusion; Summary Chart: Social Process Theories; Discussion Questions; 7. Failed Socialization: Control Theory, Social Bonds, and Labeling ; Control Theory: Learning Not to Commit Crime.
- Labeling Theory: A Special Case of Failed Socialization?Summary and Conclusion; Summary Chart: Control Theory and Labeling Theory; Discussion Questions; 8. Crimes of Place: Social Ecology and Cultural Theories of Crime ; The Historical Roots of Social Ecology Theory; Common Themes and Assumptions; The Chicago School; The New Social Ecology Theories; Cultural Theories of Crime and Deviance; Summary and Conclusion; Summary Chart: Social Ecology Theory and Culture Conflict Theory ; Discussion Questions; 9. The Sick Society: Anomie, Strain, and Subcultural Theory ; Common Themes and Assumptions.