Building Modern Criminology: Forays and Skirmishes (Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology) - Hardcover

Greenberg, David F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754628744 ISBN 13: 9780754628743

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Building Modern Criminology collects four decades of theoretical essays and research papers by David Greenberg, a sociologist pulled away by his political experiences during the Vietnam War from a career in theoretical high energy physics into criminology. The papers take up critical questions in the study of crime, including the explanation of group differences, the nature of criminal careers, and historical trends in violence. Other papers address the historical development of criminal prohibitions, modes of punishment, and the effectiveness of sanctions in preventing crime. These seminal efforts have helped to build a logically coherent, empirically grounded criminology that understands the criminal law, patterns of crime and social responses to it in their historically-specific, social contexts. This volume is indispensable for students, teachers and working criminological researchers engaging with cutting-edge issues in contemporary criminology.

About this title

About the Author:

David F. Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at New York University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0754628744
• ISBN 13: 9780754628743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524