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McGraw-Hill Education
16 August 2024
Criminology provides a comprehensive, thorough, and global approach to the study of criminology. The authors address the vital and urgent problems of crime through a combination of comprehensible theory, the latest statistics, and contemporary examples.  There is expanded coverage in every chapter of the most critical issues facing the field today, and how advances in sister disciplines (including the neurosciences) inform ground-breaking research. Criminology’s popular “boxes” continue to be updated and enhanced, highlighting significant criminological issues that deserve special attention. The text addresses the wide-ranging criminal justice impacts of the killing of George Floyd, Jr., from crime causation theory to the differential treatment of people of color throughout the criminal process.
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Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   11th Revised edition
ISBN:   9781266861321
ISBN 10:   1266861327
Pages:   434
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
PART 1 UNDERSTANDING CRIMINOLOGY 1 The Changing Boundaries of Criminology 2 Defining Crimes and Measuring Criminal Behavior 3 Schools of Thought throughout History PART 2 EXPLANATIONS OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR 4 Biological and Psychological Perspectives 5 Strain and Cultural Deviance Theories 6 The Formation of Subcultures 7 Social Control Theory 8 Labeling, Conflict, and Radical Theories 9 Theories of Crime, Place, and Victimization PART 3 Types of Crimes 10 Violent Crimes 11 Crimes against Property 12 White-Collar and Corporate 13 Public Order Crimes 14 International and Comparative Criminology PART 4 A CRIMINOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 15 Processes and Decisions 16 Enforcing the Law: Practice and Research 17 The Nature and Functioning of Courts 18 A Research Focus on Corrections Glossary Credits Indexes

William Laufer is the Julian Aresty Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology. Dr. Laufer, graduate chair of the Department of Criminology at Penn, received his B.A. in social and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, his J.D. at Northeastern University School of Law, and his Ph.D. at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Dr. Laufer's research has appeared in law reviews and a wide range of criminal justice, legal, and psychology journals, including Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, American Journal of Criminal Law, Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Business Ethics Quarterly. His most recent book is Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability (University of Chicago Press). Dr. Laufer is coeditor of the Handbook of Psychology and Law; Personality, Moral Development and Criminal Behavior; and Crime, Values and Religion. He is series coeditor with Freda Adler of Advances in Criminological Theory. Dr. Gerhard O. W. Mueller was Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Between 1974 and 1982, he served as Chief of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch. As such, he was responsible for all of the United Nations programs dealing with problems of crime and justice worldwide. He was a faculty member of universities and colleges across the country and around the world.

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