Fundamentals of criminology : new dimensions /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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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.