International Handbook of Criminology

by Shoham; Shlomo Giora

• ISBN13: 9781420085518
• ISBN10: 1420085514
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

The second handbook in the Shoham trilogy, which includes the esteemed International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justiceand the upcoming International Handbook of Victimology, this volume is a comprehensive treatment of criminology theory. This text contains contributions from 25 of the top international scholars in the field across a wide range of disciplines. Topics include social deviance, research methods, biological and physiological explanations, personality types, and family socialization processes. The book also explores ecological and economic factors, differential association and situational crime prevention, cultural conflicts and immigration, as well as stigmas, group delinquency and juvenile delinquency. Keeping pace with the changing theoretical framework of criminology in the past several years, the new theories Dr. Shoham presents in this handbook urge a re-evaluation of current practices in criminology.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Editors	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Theoretical and Historical Framework
Crime Science	p. 3
Born for Evil? Biological Theories of Crime in Historical Perspective	p. 23
Life Course Criminology	p. 51
Making Sense of Criminal Justice	p. 95
Methods of Inquiry
The Politics of Numbers: Crime Statistics as a Source of Knowledge and a Tool of Governance	p. 117
The Subculture Concept: A Genealogy	p. 153
Anthropologies of Domestic Violence: Studying Crime in Situ	p. 185
Methodological Issues in the Comparison of Police-Recorded Crime Rates	p. 211
Crime and Criminality
Transnational Environmental Harm and Eco-Global Criminology	p. 231
Perpetrators and Victims of Sex Crimes	p. 259
Financial Crimes in Comparative Context	p. 309
Studying Criminality and Criminal Offenders in the Early Twentieth-Century Philippines	p. 343
Response to Crime
Affluence, Disadvantage, and Fear of Crime	p. 377
Closed-Circuit Television: A Review of Its Developments and Its Implications for Privacy	p. 395
Crime and Social Policy	p. 425
Truth, Reality, Justice, and the Crime Genre: Implications for Criminological Inquiry and Pedagogy	p. 455
The Police Response to Crime	p. 483
The European Experience of Crime Prevention	p. 511
Crime, Victims, and Social Divisions
Class, Inequality, and the Etiology of Crime	p. 541
Youth Gangs in a Global Context	p. 567
Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice Process: Normative Dilemmas and Practical Responses	p. 599
Spatial Analysis of Street Crimes	p. 619
Understanding Repeat Victimization: A Longitudinal Study	p. 649
Conclusions	p. 681
Index	p. 687
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