Fundamentals of criminology : new dimensions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Frailing, Kelly (Author), Harper, Dee Wood (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of tables and figures
  • List of text boxes
  • Photo captions
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • How much crime is there and how do we study it?
  • Theories and correlates of crime
  • Why do they do it?: psychosocial and biosocial answers
  • Why do they do it? : social structural answers
  • Why do they do it? : social process answers
  • Why do they do it? : critical answers
  • Why do they do it? : a lifetime of answers
  • The pushes and pulls of crime
  • Where, when and to whom does crime happen?
  • Crime in context : choices and opportunities to offend
  • Crime in context : developing new criminologies
  • The victims of crime
  • Explanation of crime types
  • Violent crime
  • Property crime
  • White and other collar crime
  • Public order crime and criminalized lifestyles
  • Connecting criminology and criminal justice
  • What criminology means for criminal justice now and in the future
  • Appendix: details of the major theories of crime causation
  • About the authors
  • Index.