Explaining Crime
4th Edition
Published on 12. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-7506-9784-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Explaining Crime, Fourth Edition" retains the exceptional organization and content of the original editions, with completely updated statistics and references. It is ideally suited for a one semester course that serves as an introduction to criminology by dealing with three issues: definition of crime, measurement of crime, and theories of crime. Throughout the text, the attitude is critical. Criticism rests on three standards: clarity of concepts, quality of evidence, and utility of theory for public policy. It is thoroughly revised version of a classic textbook.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
725 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-9784-2 (9780750697842)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Gwynn Nettler
Explaining Crime
Book
01/1984
3rd Edition
McGraw Hill Higher Education
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Content
Part 1: What is Crime?; Crime and Other Wrongs; Definition of Crime; Study of Crime; Part 2: Measurement of Crime; Official Counting; Observations: Direct and Indirect; Surveys of Victims; Self-Reports; Part 3: Social Location of Serious Crime; Age, Sex, and Crime; Ethnic Differences in Rates of Crime; Urbanism and Wealth; Part 4: Explaining Crime; The Search for Cause: Explanations and Other Answers; Control: Socialization and Training; Rational Crime; Power and Conflict; Structures of Opportunity; Social Inequality and Crime; Subcultures and Crime; Definitions of Situations: Ideas of Association; Definitions of Situations: Social Reaction.