Fundamentals of criminology
Subtitle: new dimensions
By: Kelly Frailing, Dee Wood Harper
Contributors: Harper, Dee Wood
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611636895
Subjects: Criminology
Notes: Revised edition of the authors' Fundamentals of criminology, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the second edition; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of tables and figures; title: List of text boxes; title: Photo captions; title: Introduction; title: Introduction; title: How much crime is there and how do we study it?; title: Theories and correlates of crime; title: Why do they do it?: psychosocial and biosocial answers; title: Why do they do it? : social structural answers; title: Why do they do it? : social process answers; title: Why do they do it? : critical answers; title: Why do they do it? : a lifetime of answers; title: The pushes and pulls of crime; title: Where, when and to whom does crime happen?; title: Crime in context : choices and opportunities to offend; title: Crime in context : developing new criminologies; title: The victims of crime; title: Explanation of crime types; title: Violent crime; title: Property crime; title: White and other collar crime; title: Public order crime and criminalized lifestyles; title: Connecting criminology and criminal justice; title: What criminology means for criminal justice now and in the future; title: Appendix: details of the major theories of crime causation; title: About the authors; title: Index.