NCJ Number
101131
Date Published
1986
Length
531 pages
Annotation
This 13-chapter criminology textbook examines criminal behavior, research methodology, and criminological theory.
Abstract
The text explores major criminological research methods, critically analyzing the relative accuracy and reliability of various data-gathering techniques. It provides an overview of general crime characteristics and criminals; examines in detail types of criminal offenses, including corporate crime, violent crime, property crime, public order crime, political crime, and processional crime; and critically analyzes classical, biological, psychological and sociological crime cause theories. It concludes with a look at the future of crime and related social policy. Chapters contain summaries and lists of key concepts. The appendix presents an overview of the criminal justice system. Approximately 1,040 references and name and subject indexes.