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Criminology

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Publication details: London Butterworths 1998Description: 476p vISBN:
  • 9780406998002
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.000000 JON-2
Contents:
Table of contents Part I: Crime and crime control; Alternative discourses: Development of crime and crime control as social phenomena; the role of the police. Conflicting images of crime. The statistics on crime and their meaning. The media and 'law and order'. Part II: Sociological explanations of crime: The classical and positivist traditions. The Chicago School and environmental criminology. Poverty, functionalism and strain. Subcultural theories, interactionism and phenomenology. Theories of control. Realist criminology, gender and crime; Part III: Biological and psychological aspects of crime: Biological factors and crime. Intelligence, mental disorder and crime. Personality theories. Violent, aggressive and sexual offences; Conclusion.
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Table of contents
Part I: Crime and crime control;
Alternative discourses: Development of crime and crime control as social phenomena;
the role of the police. Conflicting images of crime. The statistics on crime and their meaning. The media and 'law and order'.
Part II: Sociological explanations of crime: The classical and positivist traditions. The Chicago School and environmental criminology. Poverty, functionalism and strain. Subcultural theories, interactionism and phenomenology. Theories of control. Realist criminology, gender and crime;
Part III: Biological and psychological aspects of crime: Biological factors and crime. Intelligence, mental disorder and crime. Personality theories. Violent, aggressive and sexual offences;
Conclusion.