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Across America, crime is a consistent public concern. Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy, Second Edition provides comprehensive coverage of the leading criminological theories using sociology, psychology, biology, and ecology to explain how and why crime occurs. The text combines classical criminology with timely topics including substance abuse, gang violence, Internet crimes, and terrorism. Using a social sciences approach, the authors discuss how criminology influences public policy throughout the text.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Crime and Criminology
Chapter 2 The Incidence of Crime
Chapter 3 Neoclassical Criminology
Chapter 4 Biology and Crime
Chapter 5 Psychology and Crime
Chapter 6 Social Structure and Crime
Chapter 7 Social Process and Crime
Chapter 8 Social Conflict and Crime
Chapter 9 Crime and Criminal Careers
Chapter 10 Crimes of Violence
Chapter 11 Emerging Forms of Violence
Chapter 12 Property Crimes
Chapter 13 Public Order Crimes
Chapter 14 Drugs and Crime
Chapter 15 Crimes of the Powerful: Organized and White-Collar Crime
Chapter 16 The Future of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Copyright: 2007
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