Criminology
Subtitle: a sociological approach
By: Piers Beirne, James W. Messerschmidt
Contributors: Messerschmidt, James W.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780195394764
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The problem of crime; title: The measurement of crime; title: Comparative criminology; title: Inventing criminology : classicism, positivism, and beyond; title: Social structure, anomie, and crime; title: Delinquent subcultures, subcultures of delinquency, and the labeling perspective; title: Social learning theory and social control theory; title: The conflict tradition; title: Feminist and critical criminologies; title: Inequalities, crime and victimization; title: Property crime; title: Interpersonal violence; title: White-collar crime; title: Political crime.