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
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press ,
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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