Crime and Criminality: Causes and Consequences (Criminal Justice Press Project) - Softcover

Hunter, Ronald D.; Dantzker, Mark L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881798658 ISBN 13: 9781881798651

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 2005

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!

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1881798658
• ISBN 13: 9781881798651
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225