Physical Description:print x, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher:Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2003.
Content descriptions
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Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prelude. What is theory and what do criminologists do with it? -- Part I. Biological/physiological theories of crime -- Genes and crime: is criminality inherited? -- Genetic epidemiology of antisocial behavior / Ty A. Ridenour -- Crime and the brain -- The biology of violence / Debra Niehoff -- Part II. Psychological/psychiatric theories of crime -- Intelligence and crime -- Intelligence and delinquency: a revisionist review / Travis Hirschi, Michael J. Hindelang -- Crime and mental illness -- Mental illness and violent crime / John Monahan -- Substance abuse and crime -- Women, crack, and crime / James A. Inciardi, Dorothy Lockwood, Anne E. Pottieger -- Part III. Crime and social organization -- Crime and social disorganization -- A community structure and crime: testing social-disorganization theory / Robert J. Sampson, W. Byron Groves -- Routine activities theory -- Social change and crime rate trends: a routine activity approach / Lawrence E. Cohen, Marcus Felson -- Anomie and social strain theories -- Anomie, reference groups, and relative deprivation / Nikos Passas -- Crime and social processes -- Crime and social bonds -- A control theory of delinquency / Travis Hirschi -- Crime and self-control -- The nature of criminality: low self-control / Michael R. Gottfredson, Travis Hirschi -- Control balance theory -- Deviance in control balance theory / Charles R. Tittle -- Learning to be criminal -- Social learning theory / Ronald L. Akers -- Crime and stigma: labeling theory -- Outsiders / Howard S. Becker -- Part V. Crime and social inequalities -- Crime and power -- The Marxian critique of criminal justice / Jeffrey Reiman -- Deromanticizing crime: left realism -- The failure of criminology / Jock Young -- Peacemaking criminology -- The way of peace: on crime, suffering, and service / Richard Quinney -- Women's liberation and crime -- A power-control theory of gender and delinquency / John Hagan -- Accounting for intersecting inequalities: feminist criminology -- Feminism for the mainstream criminologist: an invitation / Jeanne Flavin.
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