Crime And Criminal Behavior

Author : William J. Chambliss
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452266442

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Crime and Criminal Behavior by William J. Chambliss Pdf

Crime and Criminal Behavior delves into such hotly debated topics as age of consent, euthanasia and assisted suicide, gambling, guns, internet pornography, marijuana and other drug laws, religious convictions, and terrorism and extremism. From using a faking I.D. to assaulting one′s domestic partner to driving drunk, a vast array of behaviors fit into the definition of criminal. The authors of these 20 chapters examine the historical contexts of each topic and offer arguments both for and against the ways in which legislators and courts have defined and responded to criminal behaviors, addressing the sometimes complex policy considerations involved. Sensitive subjects such as hate crimes are addressed, as are crimes carried out by large groups or states, including war crime and corporate crime. This volume also considers crimes that are difficult to prosecute, such as Internet crime and intellectual property crime, and crimes about which there is disagreement as to whether the behavior harms society or the individual involved (gun control and euthanasia, for example). The Series The five brief, issues-based books in SAGE Reference′s Key Issues in Crime & Punishment Series offer examinations of controversial programs, practices, problems or issues from varied perspectives. Volumes correspond to the five central subfields in the Criminal Justice curriculum: Crime & Criminal Behavior, Policing, The Courts, Corrections, and Juvenile Justice. Each volume consists of approximately 20 chapters offering succinct pro/con examinations, and Recommended Readings conclude each chapter, highlighting different approaches to or perspectives on the issue at hand. As a set, these volumes provide perfect reference support for students writing position papers in undergraduate courses spanning the Criminal Justice curriculum. Each title is approximately 350 pages in length.

Author : Analise Klein
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1634855809

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Crime and Criminal Behavior by Analise Klein Pdf

In this book, Chapter One begins with a discussion on the use of dogs in the courtroom. Chapter Two explores the research on the criminal narratives of general offending populations, and introduces new insight into Mentally Disordered Offenders (MDOs), and the impact various mental disorders may have on the structure of criminal narratives. Chapter Three critically examines the link between personality disorders and violent offending, and raises several issues that have obscured its nature. Chapter Four reviews the status of Life Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior, as well as its importance for providing future directions for the study of crime and criminal behavior in the next half century. Chapter Five reviews the nature and causes of quality-of-life crime, the indicators for measuring or benchmarking the extent of quality-of-life crime, the development of the Quality-of-Life Crime Index (QLCI), and the practical, policy and research implications of this index. Chapter Six analyses taxi driver's everyday security practices in their networks and nodes, calling attention to their conception of space and their risk management techniques.

Author : Doris Layton MacKenzie,Lauren O'Neill,Wendy Povitsky,Summer Acevedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317522812

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Different Crimes, Different Criminals by Doris Layton MacKenzie,Lauren O'Neill,Wendy Povitsky,Summer Acevedo Pdf

This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.

Author : Adrian Raine
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : 0125761554

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The Psychopathology of Crime by Adrian Raine Pdf

This lauded bestseller, now available in paperback, takes an uncompromising look at how we define psychopathology and makes the argument that criminal behavior can and perhaps should be considered a disorder. Presenting sociological, genetic, neurochemical, brain-imaging, and psychophysiological evidence, it discusses the basis for criminal behavior and suggests, contrary to popular belief, that such behavior may be more biologically determined than previously thought. Presents a new conceptual approach to understanding crime as a disorder Provides the most extensive review of biological predispositions to criminal behavior to date Presents the practical implications of viewing crime as a psychopathology in the contexts of free will, punishment, treatment, and future biosocial research Includes numerous tables and figures throughout Contains an extensive reference list Analyzes the familial and extra-familial causes of crime Reviews the predispositions to crime including evolution and genetics, and the neuropsychological, psychophysiological, brain-imaging, neurochemical, and cognitive factors

Author : Ehor Boyanowsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9781487523893

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Crime and Criminality by Ehor Boyanowsky Pdf

Unprecedented in the way it draws on many different theories to explain crime and violent phenomena, this highly readable book is sure to fascinate readers.

Author : Doris Layton MacKenzie,Lauren O'Neill,Wendy Povitsky,Summer Acevedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317522829

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Different Crimes, Different Criminals by Doris Layton MacKenzie,Lauren O'Neill,Wendy Povitsky,Summer Acevedo Pdf

This book focuses on the importance of incorporating both sociological and psychological viewpoints in the understanding of criminal behavior. It identifies and explains emerging criminal offenders within the criminal justice system, examining the individual differences that make different types of offenders unique.

Author : Sandie Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317497561

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Crime and Criminality by Sandie Taylor Pdf

The question of ‘why’ and ‘how’ certain individuals are drawn towards behaving in a way that contravenes the ‘Law of the Land’ is not an easy one to address. Researchers from various different fields have nevertheless attempted to develop theoretical explanations for the existence of different types of crime and why some individuals commit such acts. Crime and Criminality draws on criminology, sociology, psychology and neuroscience to offer a balanced perspective of crime, the criminal and criminality. Coverage includes: a comprehensive discussion of theoretical approaches to criminal behaviour, including biological, social and ‘rational choice’ approaches; an analysis of legal and social definitions of crime and how these definitions influence the way specific behaviours are labelled as criminal; an examination of different types of crime and criminals, from delinquents to ‘psychopaths’ and sex offenders; an exploration of different ways in which crime is predicted, including risk assessment and offender profiling and an overview of investigative techniques. Addressing a broad range of topics and offering a synthesis of competing theoretical explanations of criminality, this book is essential reading for students taking courses in criminology, criminal psychology, criminal behaviour, forensic psychology and psychological criminology.

Author : Elaine Cassel,Douglas A. Bernstein
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135614768

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Criminal Behavior by Elaine Cassel,Douglas A. Bernstein Pdf

Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior.

Author : Don C. Gibbons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044528813

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Society, Crime, and Criminal Behavior by Don C. Gibbons Pdf

Author : Marshall Clinard,Richard Quinney,John Wildeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317523338

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Criminal Behavior Systems by Marshall Clinard,Richard Quinney,John Wildeman Pdf

An important classic, especially useful for courses in criminal behavior and personality, this text begins with a discussion of the construction of types of crime and then formulates and utilizes a typology of criminal behavior systems.

Author : Gail S. Anderson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420043327

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Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior by Gail S. Anderson Pdf

In reviewing introductory texts available to criminologists, one is left with the impression that biological factors are irrelevant to the formulation of criminal behavior. Where biology is mentioned at all, it receives infinitesimal coverage. This dearth of attention could at one time be blamed on shoddy research and the legitimate fear that evide

Author : Matthew B. Robinson,Kevin M. Beaver
Publisher : Carolina Academic Press LLC
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Antisocial personality disorders
ISBN : 1531016405

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Why Crime? by Matthew B. Robinson,Kevin M. Beaver Pdf

"This book reviews the very latest empirical evidence with regard to the risk factors that produce antisocial and criminal behavior. The authors meaningfully integrate risk factors identified by more than a dozen academic disciplines that increase the odds of antisocial behavior and criminality. The result is a new interdisciplinary theory that helps break down traditional barriers and overcomes the "disciplinary myopia" that plagues criminological theory. Unlike the typical criminological theory text, this book actually advances the state of criminological theory as well as the field of criminology"--

Author : Sheilagh Hodgins
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0803950233

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Mental Disorder and Crime by Sheilagh Hodgins Pdf

Contributors to this volume present and discuss new data which suggest that major mental disorder substantially increases the risk of violent crime. These findings come at a crucial time, since those who suffer from mental disorders are increasingly living in the community, rather than in institutions. The book describes the magnitude and complexity of the problem and offers hope that humane, effective intervention can prevent violent crime being committed by the seriously mentally disordered.

Author : Stuart Henry
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1621315398

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Crime and Behavior by Stuart Henry Pdf

"Crime and Behavior" combines theories of crime causation with their implications for key policy questions relevant to today's world. The anthology integrates theory and contemporary issues, and provides encyclopedic readings by leading theorists of crime. The introductory chapter provides an overview of theories that link criminal acts and crime events to individual, social, cultural and structural causes. Each section of "Crime and Behavior" includes an introduction to the ideas that are presented in the readings that follow. The first section of the text examines micro-level theories of crime and behavior, specifically individual and social process theories including classical and rational choice theory, and social learning. In the second part of the text, students consider macro-level theories such as social ecology, anomie and strain, and a variety of critical criminological theory from Marxist to anarchist and from feminist to postmodernist explanations. The interesting, student-friendly articles lay the foundation for a systematic and more profound understanding of the roots of crime in the 21st century. "Crime and Behavior" can be used in courses on criminology, sociology of crime and deviance, public affairs, and criminal justice. Sylvia Valenzuela holds a Ph.D. in criminology, law and society from the University of California, Irvine, and is a lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice at San Diego State University. Paul Kaplan has a Ph.D. in criminology, law and society from the University of California, Irvine, and is an associate professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. Stuart Henry earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. Dr. Henry is a professor of criminal justice and Director of the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the author or editor of 28 books, and over 100 professional journal articles on topics ranging from criminological theory and deviant behavior, to law and society, and occupational crime. His books include "The Hidden Economy," "Criminological Theory," "Constitutive Criminology," "What is Crime?," " Essential Criminology," "The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies," and "Social Deviance." Dr. Henry is the current co-editor of "Western Criminology Review."

Author : Alexander G. Schauss
Publisher : Life Sciences Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Allergy
ISBN : 0939764008

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Diet, Crime and Delinquency by Alexander G. Schauss Pdf