Of Crime and Criminality The Use of Theory in Everyday Life [Paperback]

This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.Prelude - Sally S Simpson
Introductory Chapter - Don C Gibbons
Criminology, Criminologists, and Criminological Theory
PART ONE: ACCOUNTING FOR GENDER, RACE AND CLASS DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINALITY AND CRIME CONTROL
Differential Association Theory and Female Crime - Peggy C Giordana and Sharon Mohler Rockwell
Feminist Theories of Women's Crime - Jody Miller
Robbery as a Case Study
Racial Hoaxes - Katheryn K Russell
Applied Critical Race Theory
The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy - Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson
A Neo-Marxian Theory of New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy
PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY UPDATED
The Systematic Theory of Neighborhood Crime Rates - Robert J Bursik Jr
Strain Theory and School Crime - Robert Agnew
The Dramatization of Evil - Ruth Triplett
Reacting to Juvenile Delinquency During the 1990's
PART THREE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY - NEW IDEAS, APPLICATION, AND ISSUES
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