Essential Criminology

Auteur

Stuart Henry, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice at San Diego State University where he was Director of the School of Public Affairs (2006-2017). He is the author/coauthor of 37 books and 125 articles in academic journals and book chapters. His published co-authored works include: Social Deviance (2019), Responding to School Violence (2014), Criminological Theory (2006), and Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism (1996).

Desiré J. M. Anastasia, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at Metropolitan State University of Denver and Instructor of Criminal Justice at San Diego State University. She is the co-author of four books and three articles in academic books and book chapters. Employed as a teaching scholar, she has instructed over 240 sections of courses in Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice.

Texte du rabat

This significantly expanded edition of Essential Criminology covers the broadest range of criminological theories - the essential criminological theories - from longstanding ones such as classical theory and strain theory to recently introduced ones such as ultra-realism and green cultural criminology.

Contenu

1. What is Crime? Dening the Problem

2. What is Criminology? The Study of Crime, Criminals, and Victims

3. Crime and Criminology in a Global Context?

4. Measuring Crime: How Criminologists Obtain Data on the Extent of Crime and Victimization

5. Crime as Free Will Myth or Reality? Classical, and Neoclassical Theories

6. Crime as Opportunity: Situational Rational-Choice, and Routine Activities Theories

7. Born to Be Bad: Biological, Physiological, and Biosocial Theories of Crime

8. Criminal Minds: Psychoanalytical, Personality Traits and Learning Theories of Crime

9. Learning Criminal Behavior: Socio-Psychological Theories

10. Everybody Does it: Neutralization and Moral Disengagement Theory

11. Poor Parenting: Social Control, Social Bonding, and Self-Control Theories

12. Crime Over Time: Developmental and Life-Course Theories

13. Reaction to Social Control Labeling and Social Constructionist Theories

14. Crimes of Place: Social Ecology and Social Disorganization Theories

15. The Sick Society: Anomie and Strain Theories

16. Cultures of Crime: Subcultural Theories and Cultural Criminology

17. Capitalism as a Criminogenic Society: Conict and Radical Theories of Crime

18. Critical Criminology: Power and Difference in Postmodern Society

19. Patriarchy, Gender and Crime: Feminist Criminological Theory

20. Grounding Critical Criminology: Critical Realist and Critical Green Criminology

21 Toward a Unified Criminology: Integrated Theories