NCJ Number
176841
Date Published
1998
Length
367 pages
Annotation
This is an introductory criminology textbook.
Abstract
The book is divided into 12 sections: (1) What Is Criminology? The Study of Crime, Criminals, and Victims; (2) Defining Crime; (3) Measuring Crime: How Criminologists Obtain Data on the Extent of Crime; (4) Classical, Neoclassical, and Rational Choice Theories; (5) 'Born to Be Bad': Biological, Physiological, and Biosocial Theories of Crime; (6) Criminal Minds: Psychiatric and Psychological Explanations for Crime; (7) Learning Criminal Behavior: Social Process Theories; (8) Failed Socialization: Control Theory, Social Bonds, and Labeling; (9) Crimes of Place: Social Ecology and Cultural Theories of Crime; (10) The Sick Society: Anomie, Strain, and Subcultural Theory; (11) Capitalism as a Criminogenic Society: Conflict and Radical Theories of Crime; and (12) Critical Criminologies for the Twenty-First Century. Each section includes Summary and Conclusions and a Summary Chart. Tables, figures, notes, references, index