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  title info:
    title: Introduction to criminology
    sub title: why do they do it?
  name:
    name part: Schram, Pamela J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Tibbetts, Stephen G.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Schwartz, Joseph
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    edition: Fourth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 530 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: "If you are considering a career in any aspect of criminal justice, and you want to know more about the motivations and socio-psychological makeup of serious offenders, then this book is for you! Introduction to Criminology: Why Do They Do It? applies the dominant theories in the existing criminological literature as to why people commit crimes. In addition, we examine many recent (as well as many hypothetical) examples of serious crimes, and we demonstrate applications of theory as to why the offenders did what they did. While other textbooks do a decent job in discussing the basic theories, as well as exploring the various types of crime, our book integrates various street crimes within each chapter and applies theories that are appropriate in explaining such criminal activity. This is extremely important because most instructors never get to the latter typology chapters in a given semester or term. So our approach is to incorporate them into the theoretical chapters in which they apply directly to the theories presented. Our specific examples and true stories, such as notable serial killings and other recent crimes, in each chapter, as well as our use of established theoretical models to explain the offenses, is another primary distinction of this book. Obviously, this book is meant to be central to an introductory course in criminology, but due to the emphasis on applied theoretical explanations, it is also appropriate for higher-level undergraduate and graduate courses in criminological theory or as a reference for anyone in the field of criminal justice. In it, we have integrated true crimes (and some hypothetical examples) both on a general level, such as in the Applying Crime to Theory sections, and more specifically-in the Why Do They Do It? sections, which often involve serial killings, mass murderers, or other notorious examples of offenders/offending. The subtitle of our book-Why Do They Do It?-relates to our theme. Our goal in writing this book was to a…
  note: Pamela J. Schram, California State University, San Bernardino, Joseph A. Schwartz, Florida State University, Stephen G. Tibbetts, Radford University.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-517) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Criminologie
  subject:
    topic: criminology
  classification: HV6025 .S38 2025
  classification: 364
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Introduction to criminology
    name:
      name part: Schram, Pamela J.
    origin info:
      publisher: Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, [2025]
      edition: Fourth edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2023044956
  identifier: 9781071859001
  identifier: 1071859005
  identifier: 9781071859025
  identifier: 2023044955
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231011
    record change date: 20250127175329.5
    record identifier: in00005614590
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng