| Description |
430 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: {Toc} -- {RHA}Contents{/RHA} -- {TTL}Contents{/TTL} -- {FM}List of Tables and Figures00 -- Preface and Acknowledgments00{/FM} -- {CHAP}1What Is Criminology? The Study of Crime, Criminals, and Victims00{/CHAP} -- {A}What Is Criminology?, 00 -- Is Criminology Scientific?, 00 -- Disciplinary Diversity, 00 -- Criminological Theory, 00 -- Victimology, 00 -- Summary, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}2What is Crime? Defining and Measuring the Crime Problem00{/CHAP} -- {A}Legal Definition, 00 -- Consensus and Conflict Approaches, 00 -- Consensus, 00 -- Conflict, 00 -- Beyond Consensus and Conflict, 00 -- Haganís Pyramid of Crime, 00 -- From Haganís Pyramid to the Prism of Crime 00 -- Integrating the Dimensions, 00 -- Application of the Integrated Prism to the Crimes of School Violence, 00 -- The Scope of the Problem: The Paucity of the School Violence Concept?, 00 -- Toward an Expansive Integrated Concept of School Violence, 00 -- The Pyramidal Analysis of Dimensions of School Violence, 00 -- Causal Implications of the Prismatic Analysis of School Violence, 00 -- Policy Implications of the Prismatic Analysis of School Violence, 00 -- Other implications, 00 -- Crimes of the Powerless, 00 -- Crimes of the Powerful, 00 -- Government Measures of Crime, 00 -- Uniform Crime Reports, 00 -- Crime Rate and UCR Crime Trends, 00 -- Victimization Surveys: The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 00 -- What the UCR and NCVS Tell About Crime Trends, 00 -- Problems with the NCVS, 00 -- Independent Crime Measures, 00 -- Self-Report Studies, 00 -- Cohort Studies, 00 -- Qualitative Studies: Ethnography, Participant Observation, and Interviews, 00 -- Summary, 00 -- Notes, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}3Classical, Neoclassical, and Rational Choice Theories00{/CHAP} -- {A}The Preclassical Era, 00 -- The Classical Reaction, 00 -- Cesare Beccaria, 00 -- Jeremy Bentham, 00 -- Neoclassical Revisions, 00 -- Criminal Justice Implications: The Move to ìJusticeî Theory, 00 -- The Conservative Law-and-Order Turn, 00 -- Determinate Sentencing, 00 -- Three-Strikes Laws, 00 -- Incapacitation, 00 -- Deterrence and the Death Penalty, 00 -- Redefining Rational Choice: Situational Factors and Routine Activities Theory, 00 -- Conceptual and Empirical Limitations: What the Research Shows, 00 -- Evidence on the Rational Choice Decision-Making Process, 00 -- Evidence on Routine Activities and Crime, 00 -- Policy Applications of Rational Choice and Routine Activities Theories, 00 -- Policy and Crimes of the Powerful, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Classical, Rational Choice, and Routine Activities Theories, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}4ìBorn to Be Badî: Biological, Physiological, and Biosocial Theories of Crime00{/CHAP} -- {A}Biological and Positivistic Assumptions, 00 -- The Social Context of Criminal Anthropology, 00 -- The Born Criminal, 00 -- Early U.S. Family-Type and Body-Type Theories, 00 -- Contemporary Biological Perspectives, 00 -- Twin Studies and Adoption Studies, 00 -- Biosocial Criminology: A Developmental Explanation of Crime, 00 -- Chromosomes, Nervous System, Attention Deficit Disorder, Hormones and the Brain, 00 -- The Importance of Neurotransmitters in Relation to Depression and Aggression 00 -- Recent Directions in Biosocial Criminology, 00 -- Biosocial Theory and the Racism Controversy, 00 -- Future Directions in Biosocial Criminology,Conceptual and Empirical Limitations, Criminal Justice Policy Implications, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Biological Theory, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}5Criminal Minds: Psychiatric and Psychological Explanations for Crime00{/CHAP} -- {A}From Sick Minds to Abnormal Behavior, 00 -- Shared Psychological Assumptions, 00 -- The Psychoanalytic Approach, 00 -- Blaming the Mother: Attachment Theory, 00 -- Maladaptive Coping Strategies: Frustration-Aggression Theory, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Psychoanalytical Theory, 00 -- Trait-Based Personality Theories, 00 -- Evolutionary Psychology, 00 -- The Limitations and Policy Implications of Trait-Based and Evolutionary Psychology, 00 -- Behavioral, Situational, and Social Learning Theories, 00 -- Behavioral Learning Theory, 00 -- Social Learning and Modeling Theory, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Learning Theory, 00 -- Cognitive Theories, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Cognitive Theory, 00 -- Ecological Psychology, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Ecological Psychology, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Psychological Theories of Crime, 00 -- Notes, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}6Learning Criminal Behavior: Social Process Theories00{/CHAP} -- {A}Common Themes and Different Assumptions, 00 -- Sutherlandís Differential Association Theory, 00 -- Empirical Support and Limitations of Differential Association Theory, 00 -- Modifying Differential Association: Differential Reinforcement Theory and Differential Identification Theory, 00 -- Policy Implications of Differential Association and Social Learning Theory, 00 -- Neutralization Theory: Learning Rationalizations as Motives, 00 -- Drifting In and Out of Delinquency: Matza and Sykesís Neutralization Theory, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Neutralization Explanations, 00 -- Policy Implications of Nweutralization Theory, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Social Process Theories, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}7Failed Socialization: Control Theory, Social Bonds, and Labeling00{/CHAP} -- {A}Control Theory: Learning not to Commit Crime, 00 -- Broken Bond Theory, 00 -- Failure-to-Bond Theory, 00 -- Hirschiís Social Control Theory, 00 -- Gottfredson and Hirschiís Self-Control Theory, 00 -- Evaluation, Limitations and Policy Implications of Control Theory,Policy Implications, 00 -- Labeling Theory: A Special Case of Failed Socialization?, 00 -- Lemertís Primary and Secondary Deviance, 00 -- Beckerís Interactionist Theory: Social Reaction and Master Status, 00 -- Goffmanís Stigma and Total Institutions, 00 -- Braithwaiteís Reintegrative Shaming, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Labeling Theory, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Control Theory and Labeling Theory, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}8Crimes of Place: Social Ecology and Cultural Theories of Crime00{/CHAP} -- {A}Common Themes and Assumptions, 00 -- The Chicago School, 00 -- Social Disorganization, 00 -- Initial Empirical Support, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of the Chicago Schoolís Theory, 00 -- The New Social Ecology Theories, 00 -- Design Ecology, 00 -- Critical Ecology, 00 -- Integrated and Systemic Ecology, 00 -- Cultural Deviance Theories, 00 -- Sellinís Culture Conflict Theory, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Cultural Theory, 00 -- New Cultural Theory of Crime, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Social Ecology Theory and Culture Conflict Theory, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}9The Sick Society: Anomie, Strain, and Subcultural Theory00{/CHAP} -- {A}Assumptions of Strain Theory, 00 -- Founders of Strain Theory, 00 -- Durkheimís Original Concept of Anomie, 00 -- Mertonís Instrumental Anomie and Differential Opportunity Structures, 00 -- Cohen: Status Frustration and Delinquent Subcultures, 00 -- Cloward and Ohlin: Differential Opportunity Structures and Alienated Youths, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Classical Strain Theory, 00 -- Recent Revisions to Anomie/Strain Theory, 00 -- Agnewís General Strain Theory, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Revised Strain Theory, 00 -- Messner and Rosenfeldís Institutional Anomie Theory, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Implications of Institutional Strain Theory, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Anomie/Strain Theory, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}10Capitalism as a Criminogenic Society: Conflict, Marxist and Radical Theories of Crime00{/CHAP} -- {A}Shared Assumptions and Differences: Conflict, Marxist and Radical Theories, 00 -- The Roots of Conflict Criminology, 00 -- Weberís Class, Status, and Party, 00 -- Simmelís Functions of Group Conflict, 00 -- Dahrendorfís Dialectical Conflict Perspective, 00 -- Voldís Group Conflict Theory, 00 -- Contemporary Conflict Criminology, 00 -- Turk and the Criminalization of Resisting Subordinates, 00 -- Quinneyís Social Reality of Crime, 00 -- Anarchist Criminology as a version of Conflict Theory, Limitations and Policy Implications of Conflict Theory, 00 -- The Roots of Radical Theory: Marxís Analysis of Capitalist Society, 00 -- Bongerís Criminality and Economic Conditions, 00 -- Contemporary Radical Criminology, 00 -- Central Themes of Radical Criminology, 00 -- The Capitalist State and Crime Control: Instrumental Versus Structural Marxism, 00 -- The Limits and Policy Implications of Marxist Criminology and Radical Theory, 00 -- New Developments in Marxist Criminology, 00 -- Summary and Conclusion, 00 -- Summary Chart: Conflict Theory and Radical Theory, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}11Patriarchy, Gender and Crime: Feminist Criminological Theory00{/CHAP} -- {A}Basic Assumptions of Feminist Criminology, 00 -- Liberal Feminism, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Considerations, 00 -- Radical Feminism, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Considerations, 00 -- Marxist Feminism, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Considerations, 00 -- Socialist Feminism, 00 -- Limitations and Policy Considerations, 00 -- Gendered Theory, 00 -- Epistemological Issues and Postmodern Feminism, 00 -- Conclusion,00 -- Summary Chart: Feminism, 00{/A} -- {CHAP}12Criminologies for the Twenty-First Century |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1998 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 353-412) and index |
| Subject |
Criminology.
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| Author |
Henry, Stuart, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2003021961 |
| ISBN |
0813340896 alkaline paper |
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081334090X paperback alkaline paper |
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