International Handbook of Criminology
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International Handbook of Criminology

  1. 726 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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International Handbook of Criminology

About this book

The second handbook in the Shoham trilogy, which includes the esteemed International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice and the upcoming International Handbook of Victimology, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of criminology theory. This text contains contributions from 25 of the top international scholars in the field across a wide range of disciplines. Topics include social deviance, research methods, biological and physiological explanations, personality types, and family socialization processes. The book also explores ecological and economic factors, differential association and situational crime prevention, cultural conflicts and immigration, as well as stigmas, group delinquency and juvenile delinquency.

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Yes, you can access International Handbook of Criminology by Shlomo Giora Shoham, Paul Knepper, Martin Kett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Criminal Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781420085518
eBook ISBN
9781420085525
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Criminal Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Editors
  6. Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. Section I: Theoretical and Historical Frameworks
  9. Chapter 1. Crime Science
  10. Chapter 2. Born for Evil?: Biological Theories of Crime in Historical Perspective
  11. Chapter 3. Life Course Criminology
  12. Chapter 4. Making Sense of Criminal Justice
  13. Section II: Methods of Inquiry
  14. Chapter 5. The Politics of Numbers: Crime Statistics as a Source of Knowledge and a Tool of Governance
  15. Chapter 6. The Subculture Concept: A Genealogy
  16. Chapter 7. Anthropologies of Domestic Violence: Studying Crime in Situ
  17. Chapter 8. Methodological Issues in the Comparison of Police-Recorded Crime Rates
  18. Section III: Crime and Criminality
  19. Chapter 9. Transnational Environmental Harm and Eco-Global Criminology
  20. Chapter 10. Perpetrators and Victims of Sex Crimes
  21. Chapter 11. Financial Crimes in Comparative Context
  22. Chapter 12. Studying Criminality and Criminal Offenders in the Early Twentieth- Century Philippines
  23. Section IV: Response to Crime
  24. Chapter 13. Affluence, Disadvantage, and Fear of Crime
  25. Chapter 14. Closed-Circuit Television: A Review of Its Development and Its Implications for Privacy
  26. Chapter 15. Crime and Social Policy
  27. Chapter 16. Truth, Reality, Justice, and the Crime Genre: Implications for Criminological Inquiry and Pedagogy
  28. Chapter 17. The Police Response to Crime
  29. Chapter 18. The European Experience of Crime Prevention
  30. Section V: Crime, Victims, and Social Divisions
  31. Chapter 19. Class, Inequality, and the Etiology of Crime
  32. Chapter 20. Youth Gangs in a Global Context
  33. Chapter 21. Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice Process: Normative Dilemmas and Practical Responses
  34. Chapter 22. Spatial Analysis of Street Crimes
  35. Chapter 23. Understanding Repeat Victimization: A Longitudinal Study
  36. Conclusion
  37. Index
  38. Back cover