Varieties of Criminology
Subtitle: Readings from a Dynamic Discipline (Praeger Series in Criminology and Crime Control Policy)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780275944858
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Criminology (General); Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Criminology; Criminology
First sentence: In the 1990s, the discipline of criminology, defined here as the study of "crime" and social control, is characterized by some criminologists as "very viable" and by others as "very liable."