Of crime & criminality:the use of theory in everyday life
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Pine Forge Press,
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Publisher Address: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. |
Publication Dates: | c2000. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xxxiii, 222 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: | 0761986383 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | D917 |
CLC: |
D917 D917.2 |
Call Number: | D917/O31 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |