Theories of Crime Courses

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1. Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime

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   By Shaun L. Gabbidon

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   Ideal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic groups. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more...

   Published February 18th 2010 by Routledge
2. Criminal Justice Theory

   Explaining the Nature and Behavior of Criminal Justice

   Edited by David Duffee, Edward R. Maguire

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   Criminal Justice Theory is the first comprehensive volume on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice. The authors argue that theory in criminal justice is currently underdeveloped and inconsistently applied, especially in comparison to the role of theory in the study of crime itself. In...

   Published February 28th 2007 by Routledge
3. Biosocial Criminology

   New Directions in Theory and Research

   Edited by Anthony Walsh, Kevin M Beaver

   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....

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4. When Crime Appears

   The Role of Emergence

   Edited by Jean McGloin, Christopher Sullivan, Leslie Kennedy

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   In recent years, the idea of emergence, which suggests that observed patterns in behavior and events are not fully reductive and stem from complex lower-level interactions, has begun to take hold in the social sciences. Criminologists have started to use this framework to improve our general...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
5. Criminal Justice Theory

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   By Roger Hopkins Burke

   Criminal Justice Theory examines the theoretical foundations of criminal justice in the modern era, whilst also considering legal philosophy and ethics, explaining criminal behaviour, and discussing policing, the court process, and penology in the context of contemporary socio-economic debates....

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge