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Criminology, Sixth Edition: Explaining Crime and Its Context
Explaining Crime and Its Context, Seventh Edition, provides an introduction to crime and its underlying theories. It also seeks to present evidence and stimulate critical thought on a range of criminological perspectives.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the foundations for the study of criminology, exploring crime, its context, and its causes. It highlights three important the relativity of crime, the prevalence of the scientific method in the field of criminology, and the influence of ideology on explanations of crime and on crime policy. Part II deals with criminological theory, covering deterrence and rational choice theories, biogenic and psychogenic theories, social structure theories, social process theories, social reaction theories, and developments in criminological theory. Part III explains the different forms of criminal activity, focusing on three types of violent, economic, and victimless. Violent and economic crimes include “street crimes,? such as robbery, burglary, and rape, and widespread and harmful “white collar? crime. Offenses that can be classified as “victimless? are those where the parties engage in the criminal behavior voluntarily, such as prostitution and drug use.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the foundations for the study of criminology, exploring crime, its context, and its causes. It highlights three important the relativity of crime, the prevalence of the scientific method in the field of criminology, and the influence of ideology on explanations of crime and on crime policy. Part II deals with criminological theory, covering deterrence and rational choice theories, biogenic and psychogenic theories, social structure theories, social process theories, social reaction theories, and developments in criminological theory. Part III explains the different forms of criminal activity, focusing on three types of violent, economic, and victimless. Violent and economic crimes include “street crimes,? such as robbery, burglary, and rape, and widespread and harmful “white collar? crime. Offenses that can be classified as “victimless? are those where the parties engage in the criminal behavior voluntarily, such as prostitution and drug use.
670 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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May 19, 2013
This is a great textbook because it offers traditional and contemporary viewpoints of criminology. It examines subjects like law and crime demographics, statistics and crime distribution. Theories of crime such as classical, neoclassical, biogenic and physchogenic. The psychological perspectives are also examined and contrasted with current views and case scenarios. It is well explained and touches specific subjects such as juvenile delinquency while presenting the pros and cons of past and current legislation. It also reaches into social structure, social process and crime types ranging from violent, economic and digital. Perhaps one of the best characteristics of the textbook is that it opens the viewpoint and allows the reader to personalize the content by auto analyzing one's own perspective in contrast to a general population.
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