The use of knowledge
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The use of knowledge
（Foundations of criminal science / Glenn D. Walters, v. 2）
Praeger, 1992
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Description
Criminal science can best be conceptualized as the holistic and interdisciplinary study of crime and criminals. All major features of criminal development are taken into account, and all sources of data (including medical, legal, sociological, ecological, and psychological) are considered. Criminal scientists center their investigative energies on the individual offender, cognizant that this individual is part of a wider system of interacting physical, social, and psychological influences.
Presented in two volumes, this tome explores the complex interplay of variables that give rise to criminal outcomes. Building on knowledge reviewed in the first volume, Volume 2 addresses the issue of knowledge utilization. Assessment, prediction, classification, intervention, prevention, and several other categories of application science are featured. Walters addresses ways in which society can inspire pro-social behavior and criminal offenders can find noncriminal solutions to their problems--something that is in the best interests of both groups. This book will be of great value to criminologists and students of criminology/criminal justice, as well as behavioral scientists and law enforcement officials.
Table of Contents
- Questions about crime
- context
- a brief history of crime in America
- cross-national comparisons of crime
- research
- research methodology
- correlates of crime - person variables
- correlates of crime - situation variables
- correlates of crime - the person-situation interaction
- correlates of crime - the choice process
- theory
- models and theories of criminal behaviour
- patterns of criminal involvement
- epilogue
- bibliography
- author index
- subject index.
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