Criminology : explaining crime and its context
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Criminology : explaining crime and its context
LexisNexis/Anderson Pub., c2010
7th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the ability to clarify our thoughts, inform us of why we think about things the way we do, solve contradictions in our thinking we never knew existed, and even dissolve some dichotomies we thought were cast in stone. One of those dichotomies is free will vs. determinism. Criminology must reckon with both free will and agency, as posited by some theories, and determinism, as posited by others-including the ever more influential fields of genetics and biosocial criminology. Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions examines philosophical concepts such as these in the context of important criminological theories or issues that are foundational but not generally considered in the literature on this topic. The uniqueness of this treatment of criminological theory is that rather than reporting what this person or that has said about a particular theory, Walsh exposes the philosophical assumptions underlying the theory. Students and scholars learn to clarify their own biases and better analyze the implications of a broad range of theories of crime and justice.
Table of Contents
Part I: Foundations for Criminology 1. Crime and Criminology 2. The Relativity of Law and Crime 3. Production of Crime Statistics 4. Distribution of Crime Part II: Theories of Crime 5. Deterrence and Rational Choice Theories of Crime 6. Individual Theories of Crime: Biological and Psychological Perspectives 7. Social Structure Theories of Crime 8. Social Process Theories of Crime 9. Social Reaction Theories of Crime 10. Recent Developments in Criminological Theory Part III: Types of Crime 11. Violent Crime 12. Economic Crime 13. Crimes without Victims and Victims without Crimes
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