Crime and Criminality: Causes and Consequences - Softcover

Hunter, Ronald D.; Dantzker, Mark L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133248720 ISBN 13: 9780133248722

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For courses in Criminology, Theories of Crime Causation, and Criminal and Deviant Behavior.

This thorough primer fills the void between voluminous expensive texts and unsuitable paperback readers with a text that covers all significant issues and concepts relevant to students of sociology, criminology and criminal justice. The authors define, examine and explain crime and criminal behavior, and present various new theoretical perspectives on crime causation. The text provides students with an examination of society's response to crime, and presents several different justice perspectives.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Crime and Criminality creates a bridge between "theoretical" and "applied" in this brief, yet thorough, text. It goes "back to basics," eliminating excess rhetoric and concentrating on the core theories and issues.

Written by law enforcement experts Ron Hunter and M.L. Dantzker, this text is highly suitable for any college setting. Readers will appreciate the simplicity of the explanations coupled with the broad applications they entail. This is definitely a criminology text for the real world!

Synopsis:

In writing a text which they hope goes "back to the basics", Hunter and Dantzker have produced a text which is comprehensive in scope but may be too brief in some of its explanations for the student to grasp the complex principles fully. The text examines crime with particular attention to the many

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0133248720
• ISBN 13: 9780133248722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240