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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Criminology, Crime, And Criminal Law | |
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| What Is Criminology? | |
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| What Is Crime? | |
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| Crime as a Moving Target | |
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| Crime as a Subcategory of Social Harms | |
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| Beyond Social Construction: The Stationary Core Crimes | |
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| Mala in Se or Mala Prohibita? The Cannibal and His Willing Victim | |
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| Victimful and Victimless Crimes | |
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| The Felony-Misdemeanor Distinction | |
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| Criminality | |
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| The Legal Making of a Criminal | |
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| An Excursion Through the U.S. Criminal Justice System | |
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| The Role of Theory in Criminology | |
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| The Classical School | |
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| Measuring Crime And Criminal Behavior | |
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| Categorizing and Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior | |
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| The Dark Figure of Crime Revisited | |
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| The Crime Problem or the Criminality Problem? | |
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| The Financial Cost of Crime | |
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| Interpreting Crime Trends | |
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| Is the United States Hard or Soft on Crime? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| The Early Schools Of Criminology And Modern Counterparts | |
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| The Classical Scholars | |
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| The Rise of Positivism | |
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| Lombrosoism Before and After Lombroso | |
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| Neoclassicism: Rational Choice Theory | |
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| Connecting Criminological Theory and Social Policy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Social Structural Theories | |
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| The Social Structural Tradition | |
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| Sociological Positivism | |
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| People Versus Places: Do Neighborhoods Matter? | |
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| Subcultural Theories | |
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| Does Poverty Cause Crime, or Does Crime Cause Poverty? | |
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| Youth Gangs | |
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| Evaluation of Social Structural Theories | |
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| Policy and Prevention: Implications of Social Structural Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Social Process Theories | |
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| The Social Process Tradition | |
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| Social Control Theories | |
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| Self-Esteem and Crime | |
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| Evaluation of Social Process Theories | |
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| Policy and Prevention: Implications of Social Process Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Critical Theories: Marxist, Conflict, And Feminist | |
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| The Conflict Perspective of Society | |
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| Conflict Theory: Max Weber, Power and Conflict | |
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| The Supreme Court and Class Conflict | |
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| Feminist Criminology | |
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| Evaluation of Critical Theories | |
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| Policy and Prevention: Implications of Critical Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Psychosocial Theories: Individual Traits And Criminal Behavior | |
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| Modern Psychology and Intelligence | |
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| The Impact of High and Low IQ on Life Outcomes | |
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| The Role of Temperament | |
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| Modern Psychosocial Theories | |
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| The Antisocial Personalities | |
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| Evaluation of the Psychosocial Perspective | |
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| Policy and Prevention: Implications of Psychosocial Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Biosocial Approaches | |
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| Behavior Genetics | |
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| Gene-Environment Interaction: MAO, Abuse/Neglect, and Crime | |
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| Evolutionary Psychology | |
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| The Neurohormonal Sciences | |
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| Evaluation of the Biosocial Perspective | |
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| Policy and Prevention: Implications of Biosocial Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Developmental Theories: From Delinquency To Crime To Desistance | |
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| Juvenile Delinquency | |
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| What Role Do Genes Play in Juvenile Delinquency? | |
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| Major Developmental Theories | |
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| Evaluation of Development Theories | |
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| Summary of Key Points, Strengths, and Differences of Developmental Theories | |
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| Policy and Prevention: Implications of Development Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Altered Minds And Crime: Alcohol, Drugs, And Mental Illness | |
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| The Scope of the Alcohol/Crime Problem | |
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| Illegal Drugs and Crime | |
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| Treatment Modalities for Substance Abuse in the Criminal Justice System | |
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| Portrait of a Schizophrenic | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Crimes of Violence | |
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| Murder | |
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| Rape and Rapists | |
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| Characteristics of Rapists | |
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| Robbery and Robbers | |
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| Aggravated Assault | |
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| Explaining Violence Sociologically: The Subculture of Violence Thesis | |
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| Evolutionary Considerations:What Is Violence For? | |
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| Evolutionary Considerations of Inequality and Violence | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Serial, Mass, and Spree Murder | |
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| What Is Multiple Murder? | |
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| Recent Long-Term Serial Killers: The Green River and BTK Cases | |
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| Theories About the Causes of Serial Killing | |
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| Law Enforcement's Response to Serial Killing | |
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| The First Serial Killer Profile: Jack the Ripper | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Terrorism and Terrorists | |
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| Terrorism Defined | |
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| Why Terrorism? | |
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| Is There a Difference Between Terrorists and Freedom Fighters? | |
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| The Extent of Terrorism | |
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| Terrorism and Common Crime | |
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| Some Important Terrorist Groups | |
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| The Irish Republican Army: A Decommissioned Group? | |
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| Terrorism in the United States | |
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| Theories About the Causes of Terrorism | |
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| Is There a Terrorist Personality? | |
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| Becoming a Terrorist | |
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| Law Enforcement Response and Government Policy | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Property And Public Order Crimes | |
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| Larceny-Theft | |
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| Burglary | |
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| Motor Vehicle Theft | |
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| Carjacking: MV Theft With an Attitude | |
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| Arson | |
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| Crimes of Guile and Deceit | |
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| Cybercrime: Oh What a Tangled World Wide Web We Weave | |
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| Phishing: "If It's Too Good to Be True . . ." | |
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| Public-Order Offenses | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| White-Collar And Organized Crime | |
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| The Concept of White-Collar Crime | |
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| Corporate Crime | |
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| Crimes of America's Rich and Famous in History | |
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| Organized Crime | |
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| The Mafia: The Sicilian Origins and History | |
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| Theories About the Causes of Organized Crime | |
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| Law Enforcement's Response to Organized Crime | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Victimology: Exploring The Experience Of Victimization | |
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| The Emergence of Victimology | |
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| Who Gets Victimized? | |
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| Victimization in the Workplace and School | |
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| Child Molestation:Who Gets Victimized? | |
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| Victimization Theories | |
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| The Consequences of Victimization | |
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| A Case of Cybervictimization and Its Consequences | |
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| Victimization and the Criminal Justice System | |
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| Victims' Opinions of the Importance of Victims' Rights | |
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| Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs (VORPS) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exercises and Discussion Questions | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| About the Authors | |