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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 Foundations for Criminology
- Chapter 1 Crime and Criminology
- Learning Objectives
- Criminology as Science
- Ideology and Criminology
- Media and Criminology
- The “Crime” in Criminology
- Paradigms in Criminology
- Criminology and Public Policy
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 2 The Relativity of Law and Crime
- Learning Objectives
- The Concept of Law
- Conflict or Consensus?
- The Relativity of Crime
- Highlight 2.1 Relativity of Law Across Space: Islamic Versus Western Conceptions of Law
- Highlight 2.2 Right to Life and Right to Die: A Case in Relativity of Law
- Highlight 2.3 Myths, Moral Panic, and Marijuana
- Highlight 2.4 Tobacco Company Strategies for Hooking Kids
- Highlight 2.5 State v. Dominy: Spousal Rape Contingent on Dog
- The Criminal Justice System
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Cases
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Crime Statistics and Distribution of Crime
- Learning Objectives
- History of Official Crime Statistics
- Highlight 3.1 Officer-Involved Shootings
- Highlight 3.2 International Crime Data
- Highlight 3.3 UCR Guidelines for the Recording of Robbery
- Highlight 3.4 Stop Snitching: Why Don’t Kids Report Crimes to the Police?
- A New Look to the UCR: National Incident-Based Reporting System
- Alternative Measures of Crime
- The National Youth Survey
- Highlight 3.5 Self-Reported Delinquency and Drug-Use Items as Employed in the National Youth Survey
- The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
- Highlight 3.6 Future Directions of the NCVS
- Highlight 3.7 The International Crime Victimization Survey
- Comparison of UCR, SRD, and NCVS Data Sources
- Distribution of Crime
- Distribution of Crime by Gender
- Distribution of Crime by Age
- Highlight 3.8 Mass Incarceration
- Distribution of Crime by Race
- Distribution of Crime by Social Class
- Victims of Crime
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Part 2 Theories of Crime
- Chapter 4 Deterrence and Rational Choice Theories of Crime
- Learning Objectives
- Preclassical Views of Crime
- The Classical School of Criminology
- Cesare Beccaria—Father of Classical Criminology
- Jeremy Bentham—Utilitarianism and Classical Thought
- Impact of Classicism
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Penology
- Policing
- Contemporary Deterrence and Rational Choice Theory
- Conceptualizing Deterrence
- General and Specific Deterrence
- Deterrence and Individual Traits
- Deterrence and Hot Spots
- Deterrence Across Deviance Categories
- A Rational Choice Perspective
- Routine Activities: Victims and Offenders
- How Rational Is Choice?
- Highlight 4.1 Rational Crimes or Stupid Crimes?
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Cases
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 5 Positivism and BioPsychoSocial Criminology
- Learning Objectives
- The History of Biological Positivism
- Highlight 5.1 Nude Posture Studies of Students Create Stir
- Criminal Heredity: The Bad Seed Theory
- Highlight 5.2 Bad Seed or Bad Science: Reflecting on the Jukes Family as Victims of Ideological Bias
- Highlight 5.3 North Carolina Victims of Forced Sterilization Project Seek Compensation
- Highlight 5.4 CRISPR and Genetic Editing
- Highlight 5.5 Aaron Hernandez, Brain Damage, and Violence
- Biology, Mental Disorders, and Crime
- Highlight 5.6 The Debate Over Policy Implications of Biosocial Criminological Research
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Case
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 6 Social Structure Theories of Crime
- Learning Objectives
- Strain Theories
- Highlight 6.1 Gangs and Social Structure in International Perspective
- Recent Developments in Strain Theory
- Highlight 6.2 Institutional Anomie Theory and the Current Crime Decline
- Policy Implications of Strain Theories
- Social Ecology
- Highlight 6.3 Social Disorganization Theory and Immigration: Some Unexpected Findings
- Highlight 6.4 The Future of Social Disorganization Theory
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 7 Social Process Theories of Crime
- Learning Objectives
- Learning Criminal Behavior
- Highlight 7.1 Principles of Differential Association
- Highlight 7.2 Mass Media and Violence
- Highlight 7.3 Can Subcultures be “Kynd?”
- Culture Conflict and Crime
- Social Control and Crime
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 8 Social Reaction Theories of Crime
- Learning Objectives
- Labeling Theory
- Highlight 8.1 Is a Loser’s Label Worth Killing Over?
- Overview of Labeling Perspective
- Research on Labeling Theory
- Highlight 8.2 Is a “Sex Offender” Label Worth Dying For?
- Highlight 8.3 Labeling Theory—Recent Research Findings
- Policy Relevance of Labeling Theory
- Highlight 8.4 The Effects of Arrest on Subsequent Behavior: A Cross-National Comparison
- Roots of Critical Criminology
- Highlight 8.5 An Example of the Creation of a Social Problem
- Research on Conflict Theory
- Policy Relevance of Conflict Theory
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Case
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 9 New Directions: Integration and a Life-Course Perspective
- Learning Objectives
- Integrated Theoretical Models
- Highlight 9.1 Sample Questions for a Survey to Test an Integrated Model
- The Criminal Career Debate
- Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
- Highlight 9.2 New Directions for Criminology
- Highlight 9.3 Prestigious Stockholm Prize Awarded to John Laub and Robert Sampson
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Part 3 Types of Crime
- Chapter 10 Violence
- Learning Objectives
- Highlight 10.1 Violence and the National Football League
- Homicide
- Patterns in Criminal Homicide
- Subculture of Violence: Jerry
- Serial Killings and Mass Murders
- Highlight 10.2 Colombian Serial Killer Murders 140 People
- Highlight 10.3 Another Update on Mass Shootings
- Highlight 10.4 Are Rape Allegations Ever Falsified?
- Highlight 10.5 Rape and Blue Jeans
- Highlight 10.6 A Case of Rape in China
- Highlight 10.7 Bill Cosby and Rape Allegations
- Explaining Rape
- Family Violence
- Highlight 10.8 Corporal Punishment as Child Abuse
- Violence Against the Elderly
- Corporate, Government, and Professional Violence
- Highlight 10.9 Money Laundering
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 11 Economic Crime
- Learning Objectives
- Acquisitiveness and Theft
- Highlight 11.1 Tombaroli
- Highlight 11.2 Cash and Crime
- Highlight 11.3 The Lego Thief
- Highlight 11.4 Street Swindling by Fast Talkers
- Highlight 11.5 Researching White-Collar Crime
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 12 Crimes Without Victims and Victims Without Crimes
- Learning Objectives
- Crimes Without Victims
- Pros and Cons of Victimless Crimes
- Highlight 12.1 Japan—Assisted Suicide Without Consent
- Prostitution—Sex Work
- Highlight 12.2 Germany—Prostitution Reform
- Highlight 12.3 The Netherlands—A Different Approach to Prostitution
- Drug Offenses
- Highlight 12.4 The Netherlands—A Free Drug Market
- Victims Without Crimes
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Cases
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Chapter 13 Youth Violence
- Learning Objectives
- Data Issues
- Youth Violence Trends
- Prevalence of Youth Violence
- School Violence
- Highlight 13.1 Defining Bullying and Its Consequences
- Highlight 13.2 Evaluation of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program
- Youth Gangs
- Summary
- Key Terms and Concepts
- Key Criminologists
- Discussion Questions
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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