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Explaining Crime

  • 4th Edition - March 11, 1998
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Paul Maxim, Paul Whitehead
  • Language: English

Explaining Crime, Fourth Edition, retains the exceptional organization and content of the original editions, with completely updated statistics and references. It is ideally suited… Read more

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Description

Explaining Crime, Fourth Edition, retains the exceptional organization and content of the original editions, with completely updated statistics and references. It is ideally suited for a one semester course that serves as an introduction to criminology by dealing with three issues: definition of crime, measurement of crime, and theories of crime. Throughout the text, the attitude is critical. Criticism rests on three standards: clarity of concepts, quality of evidence, and utility of theory for public policy.

Key features

Thoroughly revised version of a classic textbookIntroductory text dealing with definition, measurement, and explanations of crime

Readership

Criminology students

Table of contents

Part 1: What is Crime?; Crime and Other Wrongs; Definition of Crime; Study of Crime; Part 2: Measurement of Crime; Official Counting; Observations: Direct and Indirect; Surveys of Victims; Self-Reports; Part 3: Social Location of Serious Crime; Age, Sex, and Crime; Ethnic Differences in Rates of Crime; Urbanism and Wealth; Part 4: Explaining Crime; The Search for Cause: Explanations and Other Answers; Control: Socialization and Training; Rational Crime; Power and Conflict; Structures of Opportunity; Social Inequality and Crime; Subcultures and Crime; Definitions of Situations: Ideas of Association; Definitions of Situations: Social Reaction.

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 12, 1998
  • Language: English

About the author

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Paul Maxim

Affiliations and expertise
University of Western Ontario