Of crime & criminality : the use of theory in everyday life

Of crime & criminality : the use of theory in everyday life / Sally Simpson, editor.

This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains th...

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Other Authors: Simpson, Sally
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2000.
Subjects:
Criminology.
Crime.
Criminal behavior.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
criminology.
crimes (events)
crime (social issue)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Crime
Criminal behavior
Criminology
Criminologie.
Criminaliteit.
Overheidsbeleid.
Criminologia (teoria)
Crime (aspectos sociais)
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Table of Contents:
  • Differential association theory and female crime / Peggy C. Giordano and Sharon Mohler Rockwell
  • Feminist theories of women's crime / Jody Miller
  • Racial hoaxes / Katheryn K. Russell
  • The war on crime as hegemonic strategy / Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson
  • The systemic theory of neighborhood crime rates / Robert J. Bursik
  • Strain theory and school crime / Robert Agnew
  • The dramatization of evil : reacting to juvenile delinquency during the 1990s / Ruth Triplett.
  • The social control of corporate criminals / Sally S. Simpson, M. Lyn Exum and N. Craig Smith
  • Whithter the beast? : the role of emotions in a rational choice theory of crime / Jeffrey Bouffard, M. Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster
  • Understanding illicit drug use / Paul Mazerolle
  • The routine activity approach as a general crime theory / Marcus Felson.

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