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Of Crime and Criminality: The Use of Theory in Everyday Life

Editat de Sally Simpson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2000
This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761986386
ISBN-10: 0761986383
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 165 x 235 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Cuprins

Prelude - Sally S Simpson
Introductory Chapter - Don C Gibbons
Criminology, Criminologists, and Criminological Theory
PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR GENDER, RACE AND CLASS DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINALITY AND CRIME CONTROL
Differential Association Theory and Female Crime - Peggy C Giordana and Sharon Mohler Rockwell
Feminist Theories of Women's Crime - Jody Miller
Robbery as a Case Study
Racial Hoaxes - Katheryn K Russell
Applied Critical Race Theory
The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy - Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson
A Neo-Marxian Theory of New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy
PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY UPDATED
The Systematic Theory of Neighborhood Crime Rates - Robert J Bursik Jr
Strain Theory and School Crime - Robert Agnew
The Dramatization of Evil - Ruth Triplett
Reacting to Juvenile Delinquency During the 1990's
PART THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY - NEW IDEAS, APPLICATION, AND ISSUES
The Social Control of Corporate Criminals - Sally S Simpson, M Lyn Exum, and N Craig Smith
Shame and Informal Sanction Threats
Whither the Beast? - Jeffrey Bouffard, M Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster
The Role of Emotions as a Rational Choice Theory of Crime
Understanding Illicit Drug Use - Paul Maxerolle
Lessons from Developmental Theory
The Routine Activity Approach as a General Crime Theory - Marcus Felson

Descriere

This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.