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Social Class and Crime
A Biosocial Approach
Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a...
Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
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Biology and Criminology
The Biosocial Synthesis
Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of...
Published June 4th 2009 by Routledge
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Biosocial Criminology
New Directions in Theory and Research
Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem....
Published September 30th 2008 by Routledge
