Addicted to Incarceration + Introduction to Criminology

by Pratt, Travis C.; Walsh, Anthony; Hemmens, Craig

• ISBN13: 9781412981217
• ISBN10: 1412981212
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-13
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

With this discounted bundle, your students save more than $20! Walsh/ Hemmens: Introduction to Criminology: A Text/ Reader Combining the didactic approach of a textbook with well-edited critical research articles, Introduction to Criminology provides the best of both worlds, offering a unique new spin on the core textbook format. Organized like a more traditional introductory criminology text, this Text/Reader is divided into 14 sections that contain all the usual topics taught in an introduction to criminology course. After a comprehensive overview, each section has an introductory "mini-chapter" that provides engaging coverage of key concepts, developments, controversial issues, and research in the field. These authored introductions are followed by carefully selected and edited original research articles. The readings were written by criminology experts and often have a policy orientation that will help address student interest in the 'œso what?' application of theory. Pratt: Addicted to Incarceration In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis Pratt uses an evidence-based approach to explore the consequences of what he terms America's 'œaddiction to incarceration,' highlighting the scope of the problem, the nature of the political discussions surrounding criminal justice policy in general and corrections policy in particular, and the social cost of incarceration.