Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences - Brossura

James Lilly; Francis Cullen; Richard Ball

Brossura

ISBN 10: 141298145X ISBN 13: 9781412981453

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 2010

Riassunto

Offering a rich introduction to how scholars analyze crime, this Fifth Edition of the authors’ clear, accessible text moves readers beyond often-mistaken common sense knowledge of crime to a deeper understanding of the importance of theory in shaping crime control policies. This thoroughly revised edition covers traditional and contemporary theory within a larger sociological and historical context and now includes new sources that assess the empirical status of the major theories, as well as updated coverage of crime control policies and their connection to criminological theory.

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L'autore:

J. Robert Lilly is Regents Professor of Sociology/Criminology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Northern Kentucky University. His research interests include the pattern of capital crimes committed by U.S. soldiers during World War II, the commercial-corrections complex, juvenile delinquency, house arrest and electronic monitoring, criminal justice in the Peoples Republic of China, the sociology of law, and criminological theory. He has published in Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Social Problems, Legal Studies Forum, Northern Kentucky Law Review, Journal of Drug Issues, The New Scholar, Adolescence, Qualitative Sociology, Federal Probation, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Justice Quarterly, and The Howard Journal. He has coauthored several articles and book chapters with Richard A. Ball, and he is coauthor of House Arrest and Correctional Policy: Doing Time at Home (1988). In 2003 he published La Face Cachee Des GIs: Les Viols commis par des soldats amercains en France, en Angleterre et en Allemange pendat la Second Guerre mondial. It was translated into Italian and published (2004) as Stupppi Di Guerra: Le Violenze Commesse Dai Soldati Americani in Gran Bretagna, Francia e Germania 19421945. It was be published in English in 2007. The latter work is part of his extensive research on patterns of crimes and punishments experienced by U.S. soldiers in WWII in the European Theater of War. The Hidden Face of the Liberators, a made-for-TV documentary by Program 33 (Paris), was broadcast in Switzerland and France in March 2006 and was a finalist at the International Television Festival of Monte Carlo in 2007. He is the past treasurer of the American Society of Criminology. In 1988, he was a visiting professor in the School of Law at Leicester Polytechnic and was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford, England. In 1992, he became a visiting professor at the University of Durham in England. He is currently coeditor of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.

Contenuti:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Context and Consequences of Theory
2. The Search for the "Criminal Man"
3. Rejecting Individualism: The Chicago School
4. Crime in American Society: Anomie and Strain Theories
5. Society as Insulation: The Origins of Control Theory
6. The Complexity of Control: Hirschi's Two Theories and Beyond
7. The Irony of State Intervention: Labeling Theory
8. Social Power and the Construction of Crime: Conflict Theory
9. New Directions in Critical Theory
10. The Gendering of Criminology: Feminist Theory
11. Crimes of the Powerful: Theories of White-Collar Crime
12. Bringing Punishment Back In: Conservative Criminology
13. Choosing Crime in Everyday Life: Routine Activity
14. The Search for the "Criminal Man" Revisited: Biosocial Theories
15. The Development of Criminals: Life-Course Theories
References
Photo Credits
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Authors

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 141298145X
• ISBN 13: 9781412981453
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 489