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Author Briggs, Steven

Title Criminology for dummies / by Steven Briggs with Joan Friedman
Published Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : illustrations
Series For dummies
--For dummies.
Contents Defining and measuring crime -- Identifying types of crime -- Figuring out who commits crimes and why -- Fighting crime -- Prosecuting and punishing crime -- Ten jobs to consider in criminal justice -- Ten notorious, unsolved crimes
Summary "Learn to: understand the sociological, environmental, and psychological causes of criminal behavior ; appreciate the techniques law enforcement officers use to investigate crimes ; consider the methods that have been developed to solve and punish crime ; measure crime and identify the important points of criminal theory"--Cover
Notes Includes index
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Subject Criminology.
Criminology
criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Criminology
Form Electronic book
Author Friedman, Joan
LC no. 2009933756
ISBN 9780470588994
0470588993
0470396962
9780470396964
9781282291584
1282291580