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Author Williams, Katherine S.

Title Textbook on criminology / Katherine S. Williams
Edition Third edition
Published London : Blackstone, 1997

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 W'PONDS  364.942 Wil/Toc 1997  AVAILABLE
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.
Criminology -- Wales.
LC no. 00001358
ISBN 1854316923 (paperback)