Gregg Barak

Varieties of Criminology

Readings from a Dynamic Discipline

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Produktbeschreibung

Whether criminologists position themselves in the left or right of the field, the reality common to their work involves a reconsideration of virtually all of our past theoretical journeys in criminology. This book captures the range of criminological thinking today, and provides a picture of a dynamic discipline in transition. Chapters consider contemporary theoretical development and discussion, focusing on street crime, youth and identity, and crime and social control in relation to questions of gender, class, race, learning, and culture. While there is disagreement among the authors about whether criminologists are developing new theory or circulating old theory, their contributions in this reader demonstrate the emerging plurality in criminological discourse, revealing continuities and discontinuities between old and new.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780275947743
• ISBN-10: 0275947742
• Artikelnr.: 22445761

Autorenporträt

Gregg Barak

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Criminological Theory in the
"Postmodernist" Era by Gregg Barak Mainstream Criminology Biological and
Neuropsychiatric Approaches to Criminal Behavior by C. Ray Jeffery Crime
and Psychology of Mind: A Neo-Cognitive View of Delinquency by Thomas
Kelley Human Ecology and Social Disorganization Revisit Little Rock by
Jeffery T. Walker Strain, Relative Deprivation, and Middle-Class
Delinquency by Velmer S. Burton, Jr. and R. Gregory Dunaway Social Control,
Family Structure, and Delinquency by Joseph H. Rankin and L. Edward Wells
The Collective Reality of Crime: An Integrative Approach to the Causes and
Consequences of the Criminal Event by Frank Schmalleger and Ted Alleman A
Neofunctionalist Model of Crime and Crime Control by Thomas O'Connor
Critical Criminology Confronting the Agenda of Authority: Critical
Criminology, Anarchism, and Urban Graffiti by Jeff Ferrell Young People,
Culture, and the Construction of Crime: Doing Wrong versus Doing Crime by
Mike Presdee Crime, Excitement, and Modernity by Pat O'Malley and Stephen
Mugford Gender and Justice: Feminist Contributions to Criminology by Susan
Caulfield and Nancy Wonders Law, Ideology, and Subjectivity: A Semiotic
Perspective on Crime and Justice by Dragan Milovanovic Crime, Criminology,
and Human Rights: Toward an Understanding of State Criminality by Gregg
Barak References Index