Current controversies in criminology /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2003. |
| Description: | vi, 346 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5883021 |
Table of Contents:
- I. What Causes Crime?
- Introduction to Part I
- The Subculture of Violence
- Crime and Social Inequality
- Crime and Routine Activities
- Deviant Places
- Criminal Homicide as a Situated Transaction
- Crime and Low Self-Control
- Study Questions to Part I
- II. Controversial Crimes
- Introduction to Part II
- The Overreach of the Criminal Law
- Hate Crimes
- Child Abuse
- School Shootings
- Date Rape
- Computer Crime
- Corporate Crime
- State-Organized Crime
- Study Questions to Part II
- III. Controversial Crime Fighting Methods
- Introduction to Part III
- Racial Profiling
- Militarizing American Police
- Zero Tolerance Policing
- The Punitive Trend of American Drug Policy
- Sex Offender Notification and Community Justice
- Three Strikes Laws
- DNA Testing
- Gun Control
- Abolish the Juvenile Court
- The Death Penalty
- Study Questions to Part III