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Textbook on criminology (electronic book) / Katherine S. Williams

By: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Edition: 7th edDescription: 1 online resource (xv, 660 pages.)ISBN:
  • 9780191666230
Other title:
  • Criminology
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.942/WIL
Online resources:
Contents:
What is criminology theory? -- Definitions, terminology and the criminal process -- Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime -- The extent of crime : a comparison of official and unofficial calculations -- Victims, survivors and victimology -- Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminality -- Influences of biochemical factors and of the central autonomic nervous systems on criminality -- Psychological theories of criminality -- Mental disorder (psychopathology) and criminality -- Intelligence and learning -- The sociology of criminality -- Anomie, strain and the juvenile subculture -- Control theories -- Labelling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology -- Critical criminology : conflict, radical and cultural criminologies -- Criminology and realism -- Positivist explanations of female criminality -- Feminist theories -- Terrorism and State violence -- Governance, risk and globalisation theories.

What is criminology theory? -- Definitions, terminology and the criminal process -- Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime -- The extent of crime : a comparison of official and unofficial calculations -- Victims, survivors and victimology -- Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminality -- Influences of biochemical factors and of the central autonomic nervous systems on criminality -- Psychological theories of criminality -- Mental disorder (psychopathology) and criminality -- Intelligence and learning -- The sociology of criminality -- Anomie, strain and the juvenile subculture -- Control theories -- Labelling, phenomenology and ethnomethodology -- Critical criminology : conflict, radical and cultural criminologies -- Criminology and realism -- Positivist explanations of female criminality -- Feminist theories -- Terrorism and State violence -- Governance, risk and globalisation theories.