Criminological Theories
Subtitle: Traditional and Non-Traditional Voices and Themes
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: August 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780803958500
Subjects: Crime & criminology; True Crime / Espionage; History; Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; General; Social Science / Criminology; Feminist criminology
First sentence: This book was envisioned while I was teaching criminological theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Description: "Moyer takes a multidimensional approach to the subject by including "new" theorists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Pauline Tarnowsky, Frank Tannenbaum, Ruth Shonle Cavan, and Sally Simpson, often allowing the theorists' original source material to speak for them. Chapters are devoted to recently developed perspectives, particularly from women and people of color, which provide readers with a broader understanding of crime and criminal behavior.".

"Criminological Theories is organized in a chronological order, beginning with the 18th-century classical school - focusing on Beccaria and Bentham - and ending with the late 20th-century peacemaking perspective. In each chapter Moyer analyzes the assumptions the theorists have made about people and society and includes discussions of the cultural and historical settings in which the theories were developed, along with biographies of specific theorists and their lifetime contributions."--BOOK JACKET.