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Criminology Theory Reader

NCJ Number
176037
Editor(s)
S Henry, W Einstadter
Date Published
1998
Length
636 pages
Annotation
This anthology presents theoretical essays on crime causation published in the American Society of Criminology's journal "Criminology."
Abstract
The book includes representative articles from classical and rational choice, biological and psychological, ecology, strain, subcultural, social learning and differential association, neutralization and social control, labeling and social constructionist, and Marxist and critical theoretical perspectives as well as feminist theory, postmodernist, constitutive and integrated approaches. The 29 essays examine, among other topics: (1) inventing criminology; (2) understanding crime displacement; (3) causes of white-collar crime; criminal anthropology in the United States; (4) biological perspectives in criminology; (5) the personality-crime relationship; (6) routine activities and crime prevention in the developing metropolis; (7) computer crime laws; (8) state-organized crime; (9) corporations, organized crime and hazardous waste disposal; (10) difference in female offending; (11) homicidal behavior among women; (12) the new penology; and (13) extending evolutionary ecological theory. Tables, figures, references, index

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