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Informationen zum Autor Anthony Walsh , is a professor of criminology at Boise State University. He received his PhD from Bowling Green State University at the ripe old age of 43. He has field experience in law enforcement and corrections and is the author of more than 150 journal articles and book chapters and 41 books, including Biology and Criminology; Feminist Criminology Through a Biosocial Lens; Law, Justice, and Society (with Hemmens); Correctional Assessment, Casework, and Counseling (with Stohr); The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction (with Bolen, Ashgate); Corrections: The Essentials (with Stohr); The Science Wars: The Politics of Gender and Race; Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions; Biosociology: Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide; Criminology: The Essentials (with Jorgensen); and Answering Atheists: How Science Points to God and the Benefits of Christianity . His interests include biosocial criminology, statistics, and criminal justice assessment and counseling. Lee Ellis received his Ph.D. from Florida State University, Tallahassee, and is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Minot State University. Main courses taught by Dr. Ellis include social research methods, criminology, social stratification, anthropology, and sociobiology. Klappentext This unique text offers an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality by integrating the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, and biology. Offering a more complete look at the world of criminology than any other existing text, authors Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis first present criminological theory and concepts in their traditional form and then show how integrating theory and concepts from the more basic sciences can complement, expand, strengthen, and add coherence to them. Zusammenfassung Offers a perspective on crime and criminality by integrating the theories! concepts! and research from sociology! psychology! and biology. This title presents criminological theory and concepts in their traditional form and then show how integrating theory and concepts from the more basic sciences can complement! expand! and add coherence to them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Criminology, Crime, And Criminal Law What Is Criminology? What Is Crime? Crime as a Moving Target Crime as a Subcategory of Social Harms Beyond Social Construction: The Stationary Core Crimes Box 1.1 Mala in Se or Mala Prohibita? The Cannibal and His Willing Victim Victimful and Victimless Crimes The Felony-Misdemeanor Distinction Criminality The Legal Making of a Criminal An Excursion Through the U.S. Criminal Justice System The Role of Theory in Criminology The Classical School Chapter 2: Measuring Crime And Criminal Behavior Categorizing and Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior The Dark Figure of Crime Revisited Box 2.1 The Crime Problem or the Criminality Problem? The Financial Cost of Crime Interpreting Crime Trends Box 2.2 Is the United States Hard or Soft on Crime? Summary Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Words Chapter 3: The Early Schools Of Criminology And Modern Counterparts The Classical Scholars The Rise of Positivism Box 3.1 Lombrosoism Before and After Lombroso Neoclassicism: Rational Choice Theory Connecting Criminological Theory and Social Policy Summary Exercises and Discussion Questions Key Words Chapter 4: Social Structural Theories The Social Structural Tradition Sociological Positivism Box 4.1 People Versus Places: Do Neighborhoods...
