The future of criminology
By: edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780199917938; 9780199917952
Subjects: Crime prevention; Criminology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: looking back and forward / David P. Farrington; title: A future of criminology and a criminologist for the ages / Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh; title: Some future trajectories for life course criminology / D. Wayne Osgood; title: Does the study of the age-crime curve have a future? / Rolf Loeber; title: Developmental origins of aggression : from social learning to epigenetics / Richard E. Tremblay; title: Biology of crime : past, present, and future perspectives / Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy; title: Self-control, then and now / Terrie E. Moffitt; title: Criminological theory : past achievements and future challenges / Terence P. Thornberry; title: Individuals' situational criminal actions : current knowledge and tomorrow's prospects / Per-Olof H. Wikström; title: Lack of empathy and offending : implications for tomorrow's research and practice / Darrick Jolliffe and Joseph Murray; title: Person-in-context : insights and issues in research on neighborhoods and crime / Gregory M. Zimmerman and Steven F. Messner; title: Risk and protective factors in the assessment of school bullies and victims / Maria M. Ttofi and Peter K. Smith; title: Adult onset offending : perspectives for future research / Georgia Zara; title: The next generation of longitudinal studies / Magda Stouthamer-Loeber; title: Research on criminal careers : Part 1: contributions, opportunities, and needs / Alfred Blumstein; title: Research on criminal careers : Part 2: looking back to predict ahead / Alex R. Piquero; title: The harvesting of administrative records : new problems, great potential / Howard N. Snyder; title: Twenty-five years of developmental criminology : what we know, what we need to know / Marc Le Blanc; title: Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge on desistance from crime / Lila Kazemian; title: Does psychopathology appear fully only in adulthood? / Raymond R. Corrado; title: Preventing delinquency by putting families first / Brandon C. Welsh; title: The future of preventive public health : implications of brain violence research / Frederick P. Rivara; title: "Own the place, own the crime-prevention : how evidence about place-based crime shifts the burden of prevention / John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette; title: Community approaches to preventing crime and violence : the challenge of building prevention capacity / Ross Homel and Tara Renae McGee; title: Taking effective crime prevention to scale : from school-based programs to community-wide prevention systems / J. David Hawkins ... [et al.]; title: The human experiment in treatment : a means to the end of offender recidivism / Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong; title: Towards a third phase of "what works" in offender rehabilitation / Friedrich Lösel; title: Raising the bar : transforming knowledge to practice for children in conflict with the law / Leena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl; title: Intervening with violence : priorities for reform from a public health perspective / Jonathan P. Shepherd; title: How to reduce the global homicide rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060 / Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette; title: The problem with macro-criminology / James Q. Wilson; title: Staking out the next generation of studies of the criminology of place : collecting prospective longitudinal data at crime hot spots / David Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Justin Ready; title: The futures of experimental criminology / Lawrence W. Sherman; title: Stopping crime requires successful implementation of what works / Irvin Waller; title: The future of sentencing and its control / Michael Tonry.