Crime : Readings
Language: English
Published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2000
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- Title
- Crime : Readings
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0761986790
- ISBN 13
- 9780761986799
- Edition
- 2nd.
- Item weight
- 2.504 pounds
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- N/A
"The second edition of this anthology includes the latest theoretical and empirical works, and maintains the excellent balance between theory and research found in the first edition. The selections are carefully edited and very appropriate for undergraduate students. The new data analysis exercises provide a simple introduction to SPSS, and further reinforce the connection between theory and research: a major strength of this book. This collection continues to provide a strong foundation for students in criminology courses."
--Barbara Costello, University of Rhode Island
Designed for undergraduate criminology courses, this book actively involves students in the literature of the discipline, presents the field in a format that is accessible, understandable, and enjoyable, and is edited by well-known scholars who are experienced researchers and teachers. The readings in this anthology have been very carefully edited and pruned by the Editors so that undergraduate students can easily read them without getting bogged down or confused and lost in the technical, methodological details. As an added bonus, and without adding additional cost to the book, we have included 5 substantial data analysis exercises spread throughout the book. These exercises not only teach students the basics of SPSS, the "standard" data analysis software in social science, but also show them how they can test the crime theories and propositions covered in the reader, using current crime data packaged with the book. This absolutely unique feature is structured into fill-in-the-blank exercise sets that are easy to grade for large numbers of students by a single instructor. Over 150 very good questions have been put together for the readings so that instructors can easily test, even in large courses, whether or not their students are keeping up with the reading.
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About the Author
George S. Bridges is the President of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has served as a staff member of the policy office of the Attorney General of the United States as well as deputy editor of Criminology. He has been a member of the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. He has published many papers on racial biases in American law and is co-editor, with Martha Myers, of Crime, Inequality, and Social Control.
Joseph G. Weis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He served for a number of years as the Director of the National Center for the Assessment of Delinquent Behavior and Its Prevention, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as a member of the Washington State Governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. He is a past editor of the journal Criminology and a co-author, with Michael J. Hindelang and Travis Hirschi, of Measuring Delinquency.
Charis E. Kubrin is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and Research Affiliate at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy. She is also a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research. Her research focuses on neighborhood correlates of crime, with an emphasis on race and violent crime. A new line of research examines the intersection of music, culture, and social identity, particularly as it applies to hip hop and minority youth in disadvantaged communities. Charis is co-editor of Crime and Society: Crime, 3rd Edition (Sage Publications 2007) and co-author of Researching Theories of Crime and Deviance (Oxford University Press 2008) and Privileged Places: Race, Residence, and the Structure of Opportunity (Lynne Rienner 2006). Her work has been published in various academic journals including American Journal of Sociology, City and Community, Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, Homicide Studies, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Social Forces, Social Problems, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Quarterly, and Urban Studies. In 2005, Charis received the American Society of Criminology’s Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award and the Morris Rosenberg Award for Recent Achievement from the District of Columbia Sociological Society.
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