Description |
vii, 563 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions, terminology and the criminal process -- 3. Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime -- 4. The extent of crime : a comparison of official and unoffical calculations -- 5. Victims, victimisation and victimology -- 6. Influences of physical and genetics on criminality -- 7. Influences of biochemical factors and of the central and autonomic nervous systems on criminality -- 8. Psychological theories of criminality -- 9. Mental disorder and criminality -- 10. Intelligence and learning -- 11. The sociology of criminality -- 12. Anomie, strain and juvenile subculture -- 13. Control theories -- 14. Labeling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology -- 15. Conflict theories and radical criminologies -- 16. Criminology and realism -- 17. Postivist explanations of female criminality -- 18. Women's liberation and feminist theories -- 19. Envoi |
Notes |
Previous ed.: 1994 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Subject |
Criminology -- England.
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Criminology -- Wales.
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LC no. |
00001358 |
ISBN |
1854316923 (paperback) |
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