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Crime and Criminals Contemporary and Classic Readings in Criminology

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ISBN-10: 0195370902

ISBN-13: 9780195370904

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Frank R. Scarpitti, Amie L. Nielsen, J. Mitchell Miller

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A vibrant collection of readings designed to provide a comprehensive--and accessible--introduction to criminology, Crime and Criminals: Contemporary and Classic Readings, Second Edition, brings together selections from diverse and dynamic sources, including sociologists, criminologists, and scholars from other related disciplines. Featuring twenty-four new readings, this incisive text addresses the broad range of subjects typically covered in a criminology course, including society's attempts to control crime and criminal behavior. To help students understand the relevance and real-world applications of criminology, new coeditor J. Mitchell Miller has shaped this edition with new selections…    
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List price: $119.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 9.09" wide x 7.40" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Frank R. Scarpitti is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Amie L. Nielsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami. J. Mitchell Miller is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

J. Mitchell Miller (Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1996) is a Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he serves as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice.nbsp; He has also served two years (2000-2002) as a Visiting Professor at Moscow International University in Russia and as Director the Graduate Studies Program in Drugs and Addictions at the University of South Carolina (2002-2006).nbsp; He was Editor-in-Chief of the 3-volume Encyclopedia of Criminology (Taylor & Francis, 2005) and has authored or co-authorednbsp;five textbooks andnbsp;one monograph andnbsp;46 articles and book chapters.nbsp; He hasnbsp;alsonbsp;served as Editor ofnbsp;two journals ( Journal of…    

Preface
Contributors
Defining Criminology and Crime
Criminology as Social Science
Historical Explanations of Crime: From Demons to Politics
Characteristics of the Criminal Law
The State, the Law, and the Definition of Behavior as Criminal or Delinquent
Observing and Measuring the Nature and Extent of Crime
Are Uniform Crime Reports a Valid Indicator of the Index Crimes? An Affirmative Answer with Minor Qualifications
Reassessing the Reliability and Validity of Self-Report Delinquency Measures
Managing Rape: Exploratory Research on the Behavior of Rape Statistics
A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars
Covert Participant Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method
Correlates of Crime
Specifying the SES/Delinquency Relationship
Age and the Patterning of Crime
Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior
Intelligence and Criminal Behavior
Family Relationships, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality
On Immigration and Crime
Theories of Crime
Formal and Informal Sanctions: A Comparison of Deterrent Effects
The Criminal Man
Does the Body Tell? Biological Characteristics and Criminal Disposition
Personality and Crime: Are Some People Crime Prone?
A Sociological Theory of Criminal Behavior
A Social Learning Theory of Crime
Lower-Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Code of the Streets
Formal Characteristics of Delinquency Areas
Routine Activity Theory
A Control Theory of Delinquency
The Nature of Criminality: Low Self-Control
Foundation for a General Theory of Crime
Crime and the American Dream
Causes of Crime: A Radical View
Criminological Observations of Crime
Violent Crime in the United States
The Motivation to Commit Property Crimes
Organized Crime
Casinos and Banking: Organized Crime in the Bahamas
Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar Crime
Trouble in the Schoolyard: A Study of Risk Factors of Victimization
Researching Dealers and Smugglers