Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction, Third Edition

• NCJ Number: 194203
• Author(s): Frank Schmalleger
• Date Published: 2002
• Length: 588 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice Hall Publishing
• Publication Format: Book (Hardbound)
• Publication Type: Instructional Material
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Student Study Guide and Instructor's Guide included

Annotation

This book provides an overview of the nature and diversity of crime.

Abstract

Chapter 1 defines crime and deviance, a criminal, what a criminologist does, social policy, and the social context of crime. Chapter 2 provides a history of crime statistics, the patterns of change, major crimes and offenses, and the social dimensions and costs of crime. Chapter 3 explores research methods and theory development of crime. These include the science of criminology, the role of research, methods of research, values and ethics, social policy, and writing the research report. Chapter 4 details classical and neoclassical thought. The major principles of the classical school, forerunners of classical thought, neoclassical theories, punishment, policy implications, and a critique of classical theories are provided. In Chapter 5, the biological roots of criminal behavior are explored, including major principles, human aggression, genetics, human nature, policy issues, and critiques of biological theories. Chapter 6 provides the psychological and psychiatric foundations of criminal behavior. These include the major principles of psychological theories, early psychological theories, criminal behavior as maladaptation, crime as adaptive behavior, the theories of modeling, behavior, attachment, and self-control, insanity and the law, forensic psychology, and criminal psychological profiling. Chapter 7 describes sociological theories and social structure. The major principles of sociological theories, social structure theories, types of social structure theories, policy implications, and critique of social structure theories are provided. Chapter 8 discusses social process and social development, including the social process perspective, types of social process approaches, policy implications, critiques, and concepts in social development theories. Chapter 9 presents law and social order perspectives. Chapter 10 describes crimes against persons. Chapter 11 describes crimes against property. Chapters 12, 13, and 14 present white collar and organized crime, drug abuse and crime, and technology and crime. Chapter 15 describes current crime control policies and philosophies. Chapter 16 assesses the crimes and policies of the future. Glossary, indexes