Criminology 6th Edition Piers Beirne

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199334641
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199334643

Perfect for undergraduate programs in criminology–especially these taught from a vital perspective–Criminology: A Sociological Strategy, Sixth Version, is a complete but extremely accessible introduction to the research of crime and criminological idea. Authors Piers Beirne and James W. Messerschmidt current the subject from a sociological standpoint, emphasizing the social development of crime and displaying how crime pertains to gender, class, race, and age. Offering college students with a powerful theoretical basis, the guide additionally addresses historic, feminist, and comparative views and highlights the main forms of crime and victimization patterns.

THE TEXT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS:
* Half I focuses on 4 questions: “What’s crime?” “How are perceptions of it influenced by the mass media and by worry of
crime?” “How can we measure how a lot crime there may be in the US?” and at last, “How usually does crime happen and with what levels of seriousness?”
* Half II is a scientific information to trendy criminological idea and its historic improvement
* Half III examines particular forms of crime, together with property crime, interpersonal violence, white-collar crime, and political
crime, and it concludes with a chapter on comparative criminology and globalization

The sixth version options new and up-to-date empirical knowledge and likewise covers areas not included in lots of criminology texts, like cultural criminology, inexperienced criminology, whiteness and crime, the rape-war connection, Ponzi schemes, home right-wing terrorism, and state-sanctioned torture.