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245 10 a| Criminology :b| the essentials /c| Anthony Walsh.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Machine generated contents note: What Is Criminology? -- What Is Crime? -- Crime as a Moving Target -- Crime as a Subcategory of Social Harms -- Beyond Social Construction: The Stationary Core Crimes -- Criminality -- The Legal Making of a Criminal -- What Constitutes a Crime? -- An Excursion Through the American Criminal justice System -- A Short History of Criminology -- The Role of Theory in Criminology -- What Is Theory? -- How to Think About Theories -- Ideology in Criminological Theory -- Connecting Criminological Theory and Social Policy -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Web sites -- Chapter Terms -- Categorizing and Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior -- The Uniform Crime Reports: Counting Crime Officially -- Cleared Offenses -- Crime Trends -- Problems With the UCR -- NIBRS: The "New and Improved" UCR -- Crime Victimization Survey Data and Their Problems -- Areas of Agreement Between the UCR and NCVS -- Self-Report Crime Surveys and Their Problems -- White-Collar Crime: The FBI's Financial Crimes Report -- The Dark Figure of Crime -- What Can We Conclude About the Three Main Measures of Crime in America? -- The FBI's Ten Most Wanted -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Web sites -- Chapter Terms -- Pre-Classical Notions of Crime and Criminals -- The Classical School -- Jeremy Bentham and Human Nature -- The Rise of Positivism -- Cartographic Criminology -- Biological Positivism: Cesare Lombroso and the Born Criminal -- Raffaele Garofalo: Natural Crime and Offender Peculiarities -- Enrico Ferri and Social Defense -- Neoclassicism: The Return of Choice and Deterrence -- Rational Choice Theory -- Evaluation of Neoclassical Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Classical and Neoclassical Theories -- What About Deterrence: Is the United States Hard or Soft on Crime? -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Social Structural Tradition -- The Chicago School of Ecology/Social Disorganization -- Evaluation of Social Ecology/Social Disorganization Theory -- The Anomie/Strain Tradition -- Robert Merton's Extension of Anomie Theory -- Institutional Anomie Theory -- Robert Agnew's General Strain Theory -- Subcultural Theories -- Walter Miller's Theory of Focal Concerns -- Evaluation of the Anomie/Strain and Subcultural Tradition -- Gangs Today -- Why Do Young People Join Gangs? -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Social Structural Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Social Process Tradition -- Differential Association Theory -- Evaluation of Differential Association Theory -- Ronald Akers' Social Learning Theory -- Evaluation of Social Learning Theory -- Social Control Theory -- Travis Hirschi's Social Bond Theory -- Gottfredson and Hirschi's Low Self-Control Theory -- Integrating Social Control and Self-Control Theories -- Evaluation of Social Control and Self-Control Theories -- Labeling Theory: The Irony of Social Reaction -- Sykes and Matza's Neutralization Theory -- Evaluation of Labeling and Neutralization Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Social Process Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Conflict Perspective of Society -- Karl Marx and Revolution -- Willem Bonger: The First Marxist Criminologist -- Modern Marxist Criminology -- Conflict Theory: Max Weber, Power and Conflict -- Peacemaking Criminology -- Evaluation of Critical Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Critical Theories -- Feminist Criminology -- The Concepts and Concerns of Feminist Criminology -- Women's Liberation and Crime -- Power-Control Theory -- Structured Action Theory: "Doing Gender" -- Other Explanations -- Anne Campbell's Staying Alive Hypothesis -- Evaluation of Feminist Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Feminist Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The "Two Great Pillars of Psychology" -- The IQ-Crime Connection -- Temperament and Personality -- Personality Traits Associated With Criminal Behavior -- Conscience and Arousal -- Cognitive Arousal -- Glen Walters' Lifestyle Theory -- The Antisocial Personalities -- Evaluation of the Psychosocial Perspective -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Psychosocial Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Biosocial Approach -- Behavior Genetics -- Gene-Environment Interaction and Correlation -- Behavior Genetics and Criminal Behavior -- Molecular Genetics -- Evolutionary Psychology -- The Evolution of Criminal Traits -- The Neurosciences -- Softwiring the Brain by Experience -- Reward Dominance and Prefrontal Dysfunction Theories -- Some Other Biosocial Risk Factors -- Evaluation of the Biosocial Perspective -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Biosocial Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Developmental Perspective -- Risk and Protective Factors for Serious Delinquency -- Patterns of Serious Delinquency -- Major Developmental Theories -- Robert Agnew's General or "Super Traits" Theory -- David Farrington's Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory -- Terrie Moffitt's Dual Pathway Developmental Theory -- Sampson and Laub's Age-Graded Developmental Theory -- Evaluation of Developmental Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Developmental Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- Violence in History -- Murder -- Legal Categories of Murder -- Mass and Spree Murder -- Serial Murder -- Forcible Rape -- Robbery -- Aggravated Assault -- Theories of Violence -- Violence and Inequality -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- What Is Terrorism? -- Is There a Difference Between Terrorists and Freedom Fighters? -- The Extent of Terrorism -- Terrorism and Common Crime -- Al-Qaeda -- Hizballah -- Domestic Terrorism -- Other Domestic Groups -- Is There a Terrorist Personality? -- Theories of Terrorism -- Suicide Bombers -- Law Enforcement Response and Government Policy -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- What Is a Property Offense? -- Larceny-Theft -- Burglary -- Burglars and Their Motives -- Choosing Burglary Targets -- Disposing of the Loot -- Motor Vehicle Theft -- Arson -- Crimes of Guile and Deceit: Embezzlement, Fraud, and Forgery/Counterfeiting -- Cybercrime: Oh What a Tangled World Wide Web We Weave -- Identity Theft -- Denial of Service Attack: Virtual Kidnapping and Extortion -- Who Are the Hackers? -- Software Piracy -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- What Are Public Order Crimes? -- Alcohol and Crime -- The Effects of Alcohol and Context on Behavior -- Drunk Driving -- Alcoholism: Type I and Type II -- Illegal Drugs and Crime -- The Extent of the Illicit Drug Problem -- Drug Addiction -- Drug Classification -- The Drugs-Violence Link -- What Causes Drug Abuse? 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-- The Consequences of Victimization -- Victimization and the Criminal Justice System -- Crime Victims' Bill of Rights -- Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms.;

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Criminology : the essentials / Anthony Walsh.

Author/creator	Walsh, Anthony, 1941-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, ©2012.
Description	xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects	Criminology. Criminal behavior.

Contents	Machine generated contents note: What Is Criminology? -- What Is Crime? -- Crime as a Moving Target -- Crime as a Subcategory of Social Harms -- Beyond Social Construction: The Stationary Core Crimes -- Criminality -- The Legal Making of a Criminal -- What Constitutes a Crime? -- An Excursion Through the American Criminal justice System -- A Short History of Criminology -- The Role of Theory in Criminology -- What Is Theory? -- How to Think About Theories -- Ideology in Criminological Theory -- Connecting Criminological Theory and Social Policy -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Web sites -- Chapter Terms -- Categorizing and Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior -- The Uniform Crime Reports: Counting Crime Officially -- Cleared Offenses -- Crime Trends -- Problems With the UCR -- NIBRS: The "New and Improved" UCR -- Crime Victimization Survey Data and Their Problems -- Areas of Agreement Between the UCR and NCVS -- Self-Report Crime Surveys and Their Problems -- White-Collar Crime: The FBI's Financial Crimes Report -- The Dark Figure of Crime -- What Can We Conclude About the Three Main Measures of Crime in America? -- The FBI's Ten Most Wanted -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Web sites -- Chapter Terms -- Pre-Classical Notions of Crime and Criminals -- The Classical School -- Jeremy Bentham and Human Nature -- The Rise of Positivism -- Cartographic Criminology -- Biological Positivism: Cesare Lombroso and the Born Criminal -- Raffaele Garofalo: Natural Crime and Offender Peculiarities -- Enrico Ferri and Social Defense -- Neoclassicism: The Return of Choice and Deterrence -- Rational Choice Theory -- Evaluation of Neoclassical Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Classical and Neoclassical Theories -- What About Deterrence: Is the United States Hard or Soft on Crime? -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Social Structural Tradition -- The Chicago School of Ecology/Social Disorganization -- Evaluation of Social Ecology/Social Disorganization Theory -- The Anomie/Strain Tradition -- Robert Merton's Extension of Anomie Theory -- Institutional Anomie Theory -- Robert Agnew's General Strain Theory -- Subcultural Theories -- Walter Miller's Theory of Focal Concerns -- Evaluation of the Anomie/Strain and Subcultural Tradition -- Gangs Today -- Why Do Young People Join Gangs? -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Social Structural Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Social Process Tradition -- Differential Association Theory -- Evaluation of Differential Association Theory -- Ronald Akers' Social Learning Theory -- Evaluation of Social Learning Theory -- Social Control Theory -- Travis Hirschi's Social Bond Theory -- Gottfredson and Hirschi's Low Self-Control Theory -- Integrating Social Control and Self-Control Theories -- Evaluation of Social Control and Self-Control Theories -- Labeling Theory: The Irony of Social Reaction -- Sykes and Matza's Neutralization Theory -- Evaluation of Labeling and Neutralization Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Social Process Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Conflict Perspective of Society -- Karl Marx and Revolution -- Willem Bonger: The First Marxist Criminologist -- Modern Marxist Criminology -- Conflict Theory: Max Weber, Power and Conflict -- Peacemaking Criminology -- Evaluation of Critical Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Critical Theories -- Feminist Criminology -- The Concepts and Concerns of Feminist Criminology -- Women's Liberation and Crime -- Power-Control Theory -- Structured Action Theory: "Doing Gender" -- Other Explanations -- Anne Campbell's Staying Alive Hypothesis -- Evaluation of Feminist Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Feminist Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The "Two Great Pillars of Psychology" -- The IQ-Crime Connection -- Temperament and Personality -- Personality Traits Associated With Criminal Behavior -- Conscience and Arousal -- Cognitive Arousal -- Glen Walters' Lifestyle Theory -- The Antisocial Personalities -- Evaluation of the Psychosocial Perspective -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Psychosocial Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Biosocial Approach -- Behavior Genetics -- Gene-Environment Interaction and Correlation -- Behavior Genetics and Criminal Behavior -- Molecular Genetics -- Evolutionary Psychology -- The Evolution of Criminal Traits -- The Neurosciences -- Softwiring the Brain by Experience -- Reward Dominance and Prefrontal Dysfunction Theories -- Some Other Biosocial Risk Factors -- Evaluation of the Biosocial Perspective -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Biosocial Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Developmental Perspective -- Risk and Protective Factors for Serious Delinquency -- Patterns of Serious Delinquency -- Major Developmental Theories -- Robert Agnew's General or "Super Traits" Theory -- David Farrington's Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory -- Terrie Moffitt's Dual Pathway Developmental Theory -- Sampson and Laub's Age-Graded Developmental Theory -- Evaluation of Developmental Theories -- Policy and Prevention: Implications of Developmental Theories -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- Violence in History -- Murder -- Legal Categories of Murder -- Mass and Spree Murder -- Serial Murder -- Forcible Rape -- Robbery -- Aggravated Assault -- Theories of Violence -- Violence and Inequality -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- What Is Terrorism? -- Is There a Difference Between Terrorists and Freedom Fighters? -- The Extent of Terrorism -- Terrorism and Common Crime -- Al-Qaeda -- Hizballah -- Domestic Terrorism -- Other Domestic Groups -- Is There a Terrorist Personality? -- Theories of Terrorism -- Suicide Bombers -- Law Enforcement Response and Government Policy -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- What Is a Property Offense? -- Larceny-Theft -- Burglary -- Burglars and Their Motives -- Choosing Burglary Targets -- Disposing of the Loot -- Motor Vehicle Theft -- Arson -- Crimes of Guile and Deceit: Embezzlement, Fraud, and Forgery/Counterfeiting -- Cybercrime: Oh What a Tangled World Wide Web We Weave -- Identity Theft -- Denial of Service Attack: Virtual Kidnapping and Extortion -- Who Are the Hackers? -- Software Piracy -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- What Are Public Order Crimes? -- Alcohol and Crime -- The Effects of Alcohol and Context on Behavior -- Drunk Driving -- Alcoholism: Type I and Type II -- Illegal Drugs and Crime -- The Extent of the Illicit Drug Problem -- Drug Addiction -- Drug Classification -- The Drugs-Violence Link -- What Causes Drug Abuse? -- Does Drug Abuse Cause Crime? -- Prostitution and Commercialized Vice -- Becoming a Prostitute -- Should Prostitution Be Legalized/Decriminalized? -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Concept of White-Collar Crime -- Occupational Crime -- Causes of Occupational White-Collar Crime: Are They Different? -- Corporate Crime -- Theories About the Causes of Corporate Crime -- Law Enforcement Response to Corporate Crime -- Organized Crime -- What Is Organized Crime? -- The Origins of Organized Crime in the United States -- Other Organized Crime Groups -- Theories of Organized Crime -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms -- The Emergence of Victimology -- Who Gets Victimized? -- Victimization in the Workplace and School -- Child Molestation: Who Gets Victimized? -- Domestic Violence Victimization -- Victimization Theories -- Victim Precipitation Theory -- Routine Activities/Lifestyle Theory -- Is Victimology "Blaming the Victim"? -- The Consequences of Victimization -- Victimization and the Criminal Justice System -- Crime Victims' Bill of Rights -- Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs -- Summary -- Discussion Questions -- Useful Websites -- Chapter Terms.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2011028305
ISBN	9781412999434 (pbk.)
ISBN	141299943X (pbk.)

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