By Janet P. Stamatel (auth.), Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte, Gina Penly Hall (eds.)
This guide offers a accomplished remedy of the sphere of criminology on the flip of the twenty first century. it's designed to check the real fresh advancements within the sociology of crime and deviance, including:
- History of the self-discipline: with an emphasis at the seventeenth, 18th, and nineteenth century, this part illustrates how old theories within the self-discipline impact modern day learn and practice.
- Methodological matters in Crime study: together with state-of-the-art ideas, written via those that at the moment use them. This part covers qualitative and quantitative, longitudinal and cross-sectional equipment. It additionally beneficial properties mapping, trajectories, HLM, latent development types, NIBRS.
- Explanations of Crime: together with biological/genetic, mental, social constitution, and social technique causes.
- Theory-Based perform: with a spotlight on prevention and cessation of crime, quite early-childhood improvement, situational prevention, and disistence techniques.
- Special issues: this part comprises chapters on crime-related concerns akin to gangs, weapons, peer strain, drug use, baby abuse/domestic violence, university crime, and hate crime, and criminal-justice comparable concerns together with capital punishment, restorative justice, group policing, and race and gender in felony processing.
With its interdisciplinary assurance of either old learn and state-of-the-art approach and thought, this quantity might be crucial for someone doing study in Criminology, felony Justice, or Sociology.
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