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

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Simpson Sally S.; Agnew Robert, 1953-
Published: Pine Forge Press,
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.