Crime and the American Dream (A volume in the Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)

Steven F. Messner; Richard Rosenfeld

ISBN 10: 0534517668 / ISBN 13: 9780534517663

Published by Wadsworth Publishing, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crime and the American Dream (A volume in the Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534517668
• ISBN 13: 9780534517663
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Using the basic ideas, insights, and conceptual tools of sociology, Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld present a provocative introduction to alternative ways of thinking about crime. They provide both a comprehensive analysis of the Anomie tradition as well as other existing theories while offering a theoretical perspective to explain the exceptionally high levels of serious crime in the United States. They integrate empirical and quantitative data with ethnographic and qualitative data to provide a succinct discussion of crime and the American dream which should prove both accessible and interesting to students.

Review

"An excellent book . . . Both the substantive points, as well as examples, are presented with a minimum of jargon . . . it reads more like a novel than a text . . . Students have repeatedly told me that they enjoyed reading this book." "Widely used and makes a genuine contribution to both the classroom and scholarship."