International handbook of criminology

Exploring a phenomenon that penetrates cultures of all racial, ethnic, and social classes, this volume presents research on longstanding issues and offers perspectives into various problems and trends

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kett, Martin , 1967- (Author), Knepper, Paul (Author), Shoham, S. Giora , 1929- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press , c2010
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Crime science
  • 2. Born for evil? : biological theories of crime in historical perspective
  • 3. Life course criminology
  • 4. Making sense of criminal justice
  • 5. The politics of numbers : crime statistics as a source of knowledge and a tool of governance
  • 6. The subculture concept : a geneology
  • 7. Anthropologies of domestic violence : studying crime in situ
  • 8. Methodological issues in the comparison of police recorded-crime rates
  • 9. Transnational environmental harm and eco-global criminology
  • 10. Perpetrators and victims of sex crimes
  • 11. Financial crimes in comparative context
  • 12. Studying criminality and criminal offenders in the early twentieth-century Philippines
  • 13. Affluence, disadvantage, and fear of crime
  • 14. Closed-circuit television : a review of its development and its implications for privacy
  • 15. Crime and social policy
  • 16. Truth, reality, justice, and the crime genre : implications for criminological inquiry and pedagogy
  • 17. The police response to crime
  • 18. The European experience of crime prevention
  • 19. Class, inequality, and the etiology of crime
  • 20. Youth gangs in a global context
  • 21. Victim participation in the criminal justice process : normative dilemmas and practical responses
  • 22. Spatial analysis of street crimes
  • 23. Understanding of repeat victimization : a longitudinal study