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Title:
Criminology : a sociological approach / Piers Beirne, James W. Messerschmidt.
Author:
Beirne, Piers.

Messerschmidt, James W.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Call Number:
HV6025 .B43 2011
Abstract:
"Ideal for undergraduate courses in criminology - especially those taught from a critical perspective - Criminology: A Sociological Approach, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive yet highly accessible introduction to the study of crime and criminological theory. Authors Piers Beirne and James W. Messerschmidt present the topic from a sociological standpoint, emphasizing the social construction of crime and showing how crime relates to gender, class, race, and age. Providing students with a strong theoretical foundation, the book also addresses historical, feminist, and comparative perspectives and highlights the major types of crime and victimization patterns." --Book Jacket.
Edition:
5th ed.
ISBN:
9780195394764
Physical Description:
xx, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents:
pt. I. Introduction to criminology -- 1. The problem of crime -- Images of crime -- Crime as a social problem -- Crime and the culture of fear -- Crime in the mass media -- Newsmaking criminology -- Crime, criminal law, and criminalization -- Crime as legal category -- Law and state -- Law and criminalization -- Crime as a sociological problem -- Violation of conduct norms -- Social harm and analogous social injury -- Violation of rights -- Crime, globalization, and global conduct norms -- 2. The measurement of crime -- Official crime data -- Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) -- National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) -- National Crime Victimization Surveys (NCVS) Federal data on white-collar crime, corporate crime, and internet crime -- Unofficial crime data -- Self-report data -- Life-course data -- Life-history data -- Criminal biographies -- Observation research and participant observation research -- Comparative and historical research -- 3. Comparative criminology -- Approaching comparative criminology -- Transnational crime -- Cultural relativism -- Case study of comparative sexual deviance -- Uniform cross-national crime statistics? -- Comparative crime and victimization data -- Cross-national crime data -- Cross-national victimization data --Cross-national generalizations regarding crime -- Countries with low crime rates -- Modernization and crime -- Globalization and crime -- American exceptionalism : crime and incarceration in comparative perspective.

pt. II. Criminological theory -- 4. Inventing criminology : classicism, positivism, and beyond -- The Enlightenment and classical criminology -- Beccaria : Of Crimes and Punishments (1764) -- Bentham : punishment and panopticon -- Toward the disciplinary society -- Emergence of positivist criminology -- Crisis of classicism : the dangerous classes -- Quetelet's social mechanics of crime -- Criminal anthropology : Lombroso's "born criminal" -- Lombroso's Criminal Man (1876) -- Goring's The English Convict (1913) -- Neoclassical criminology -- Penal dilemmas -- Neoclassical compromises -- Classicism and positivism today -- 5. Social structure, anomie, and crime -- Durkheim's sociology of law and crime -- Law and social solidarity -- The nature of crime -- Anomie, egoism, and crime -- The evolution of punishment -- Social structure, anomie, and deviance -- Merton's typology of modes of individual adaptation -- Revised strain theory -- Agnew's general strain theory -- Messner and Rosenfeld's institutional anomie theory -- 6. Delinquent subcultures, subcultures of delinquency, and the labeling perspective -- The Chicago School of Criminology : social disorganization and delinquency -- Shaw and McKay's Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (1942) -- Delinquent subcultures -- A.K. Cohen's Delinquent Boys (1955) -- Delinquency and lower-class culture -- Delinquency and opportunity -- Matza's delinquency and drift -- The positive delinquent -- Subculture of delinquency -- The labeling perspective -- Social meaning of deviance -- Societal reaction -- Primary and secondary deviance -- Deviance amplification -- Stigmatization -- 7. Social learning theory and social control theory -- Differential association -- Social learning theory -- Differential reinforcement -- Social control theory -- Self-control theory -- Gottfredson and Hirshi's theory of self-control -- Control balance theory -- 8. The conflict tradition -- Marxism, law, and crime -- State and law -- Criminalization as a violation of rights -- Crime and demoralization -- Conflict theory -- Crime and criminalization -- Criminal law and crime -- Integrated conflict theory -- Radical criminology -- Left realism -- 9. Feminist and critical criminologies -- Feminist criminologies -- Critical criminologies -- Constitutive criminology -- Cultural criminology -- Critical humanist criminologies -- Green criminology.

pt. III. Inequalities and crime -- 10. Inequalities, crime and victimization -- Class and crime -- Patterns of crime and victimization -- Class and varieties of crime -- Gender and crime -- Race and crime -- Age and crime -- 11. Property crime -- Robbery and burglary -- Varieties of larceny -- Shoplifting -- Motor vehicle theft -- Fraud -- Dealing and damage -- Fencing -- Arson -- 12. Interpersonal violence -- Murder, assault, hate crimes, and rape -- Interpersonal violence in the family -- Heterosexual wife rape and battering -- Gay and lesbian partner battering -- Child and elder abuse -- Animal abuse -- Interpersonal violence in the workplace -- Murder and assault -- Sexual harassment -- 13. White-collar crime -- Occupational crime -- Occupational theft -- Occupational fraud -- Corporate crime -- Corporate violence -- Corporate theft -- Transnational corporate crime -- Bribery -- Dumping -- Dangerous working conditions -- 14. Political crime -- Political crimes against the state -- Violent political crimes against the state -- Nonviolent political crimes against the state -- Domestic political crimes by the state -- State corruption -- State political repression -- State-corporate crime -- Transnational political crimes by the state -- State terrorism -- The state, terrorism, and globalization.
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