Building Modern Criminology Forays and Skirmishes

Informationen zum Autor David F. Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at New York University! USA Zusammenfassung The papers gathered here are selected from four decades of research papers by David Greenberg. These seminal efforts have helped to build a logically coherent, empirically grounded criminology that understands the criminal law, patterns of crime and social responses to it in their historically-specific, social contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Causes of Crime: Delinquency and the age structure of society; The gendering of crime in Marxist theory; Time series analysis of crime rates; Long-term trends in crimes of violence; Modeling criminal careers. Part II The Effects of the Criminal Justice System: The effect of arrests on crime: a multivariate panel analysis; The incapacitative effect of imprisonment: some estimates. Part III Understanding the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice System: The dialectics of crime control (with Drew Humphries); The dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes; The prison as a lawless agency (with Fay Stender); Punishment! division of labor! and social solidarity; State prison populations and their growth! 1971-1991 (with Valerie West); Siting the death penalty internationally (with Valerie West); List of publications; Name Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David A. Greenberg, Mr. David F. Greenberg, David F. Greenberg
• Editore: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.09.2010
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, crimin
• EAN: 9780754628743
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2874-3
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Serie: Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology; Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology
• Categorie: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Crime and criminology; Crime & criminology