Beyond Empiricism - Institutions and Intentions in the Study of Crime

Informationen zum Autor Joan McCord Beyond Empiricism expands the discourse on theories of criminal behavior. It considers institutional, social, and individual issues related to criminal behavior, while individually each raises questions about the adequacy of current theoretical claims. The topics have significant implications both for policy and research in criminology. Zusammenfassung Beyond Empiricism expands the discourse on theories of criminal behavior Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Joan McCord 1. Crime as Alternative: Towards a Cross-Level Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation Per-Olof H. Wikstro;m 2. Punishing Serious Juvenile Offenders: Crime, Racial Disparity, and the Incarceration of Adolescents in Adult Prison in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Pennsylvania David Wolcott and Steven Schlossman 3. Toward a Theory of Public/Private Interaction in Policing Peter Grabosky 4. "Institutionalizing" Criminological Theory Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld 5. The Functional Neuroanatomy and Psycho- pharmacology of Predatory and Defensive Aggression Jordan B. Peterson and Matthew S. Shane 6. Toward a Theory of Criminal Responsibility Joan McCord About the Authors Index

Product details

• Authors: Joan McCord, Joan (EDT) McCord
• Assisted by: Joan McCord (Editor), McCord Joan (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2004
• EAN: 9780765802514
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0251-4
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Advances in Criminological Theory; Advances in Criminological Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology