The fifth edition of Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction offers students a clear, contemporary, and comprehensive introduction to criminology that encourages critical thinking about the causes of crime and crime prevention strategies. The text's hallmark thematic approach of social problems versus social responsibility (is crime a matter of individual responsibility or a symptom of a dysfunctional society?) prompts students to think critically about the causes of crime and helps them see the link between crime theories and crime policies.
Author(s): Frank Schmalleger
Edition: 8th
Publisher: Pearson
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: PDF (Conv With Calibre)
Pages: XIX, 508
Tags: Criminology, Crime Causation, Foundations Of Criminal Behavior, Social Conflict, Social Structure
Part One The Crime Picture
Chapter 1 | What Is Criminology? 1
Chapter 2 | Where Do Theories Come From? 27
Part two Crime Causation
Chapter 3 | Classical and Neoclassical Thought 53
Chapter 4 | Early Biological Perspectives on Criminal Behavior 81
Chapter 5 | Biosocial and other Contemporary Perspectives 99
Chapter 6 | Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior 127
Part three Crime Causation Revisited
Chapter 7 | Social Structure Theories 157
Chapter 8 | Theories of Social Process and Social Development 183
Chapter 9 | Social Conflict Theories 219
Part Four Crime in the Modern World
Chapter 10 | Criminal victimization 245
Chapter 11 | Crimes against Persons 273
Chapter 12 | Crimes against Property 311
Chapter 13 | White-Collar and organized Crime 335
Chapter 14 | Drug and Sex Crimes 363
Chapter 15 | Technology and Crime 387
Chapter 16 | Globalization and Terrorism 409
Epilogue Future Directions
