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1 online resource (x, 258 pages). |
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text file |
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Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections
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Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book combines three key issues in the field of criminology: criminological theory, penology and crime prevention. Thus, the book addresses three fundamental criminological aspects, namely: explaining the causes of criminal/deviant behaviour, explaining the process of dealing with deviants/criminals, and articulating ways for preventing criminal activities. This is an essential book for researchers and students undertaking undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in criminology and criminal justice. The book is also essential for security and correctional practitioners such as police officers, correction officers, probation officers and private security players, as well as criminal crime control policy makers. As a lecturer in the field of criminology for some time, I discovered the challenges that most students face in comprehending various divergent aspects of criminological theory, as well as other issues in the areas of penology and crime prevention. However, this essential book logically presents the criminological theories, penology and crime prevention aspects in simple language, and anyone who reads it will find it easy to grasp all the various aspects it covers. To assist with comprehension, summaries of main issues and discussion questions are placed at the end of each chapter. The book is comprised of eight chapters. Chapter one, the introductory chapter, explains key concepts such as criminology, crime, deviance, criminal justice and crime statistics. The chapter also gives a brief history of criminology and outlines the role of the criminologist, among other issues. Chapter two to chapter six cover criminological theories in classes as follows: chapter two covers the classical and neoclassical school of criminology; chapter three covers the positivist school of criminology; chapter four covers socio-structural theories; chapter five covers social process theories; and chapter six covers critical theories. Chapter seven covers white-collar criminology and, given that most of the pioneer criminologists mainly focused on street crime, the chapter looks at white-collar crime, which is even more harmful. Chapter eight focuses on penology, which is the study of punishment and the treatment of offenders. It covers areas such as theories of punishment, forms of punishment, the death penalty, restorative justice and recidivism. Lastly, chapter nine focuses on crime control and prevention. The chapter starts by looking at two models of the criminal justice process, the crime control model and the due process model. The bulk of the chapter then looks at crime prevention, which entails any action designed to reduce the actual level of crime and/or the perceived fear of crime. Among others, the chapter looks at crime prevention through environmental design, situational crime prevention, crime prevention through social development, as well as various policing strategies for crime prevention"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Overview of Concepts and Issues in Criminology -- What Is Criminology? -- Criminology and Criminal Justice -- History of Criminology -- What Is Crime? -- Deviance -- Delinquency -- How Criminologists View Crime -- Consensus View of Crime -- Conflict View of Crime -- Interactionist View of Crime -- The Role of the Criminologist -- Theory Construction -- Criminal Statistics -- The Sociology of Law -- Crime Prevention -- Penology -- Victimology -- What Is a Theory? -- Features of a Good Theory -- Ideology in Criminological Theory |
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Crime Statistics -- The Usefulness of Crime Statistics -- Official Crime Statistics -- Reasons Why Criminal Statistics May Be Distorted -- Unofficial Methods of Counting Crime -- Self-Report Surveys -- Victimization Surveys -- Organisations and Institutions Outside the Criminal Justice System -- Summary -- Chapter 2 -- The Classical and Neoclassical Schools of Criminology -- Introduction -- Classical School of Criminology -- Cesare Beccaria (1738 -1794) -- Beccaria on Deterrence -- Beccaria on Death Penalty -- Jeremy Bentham (1748- 1832) -- Criticism of the Classical School |
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Neoclassical School of Criminology -- Rational Choice Theory (Gary Becker, 1968 -- Cornish and Clarke, 1986) -- Deterrence Theory -- Routine Activities Theory (Lawrence Cohen & Marcus Felson, 1979) -- Summary -- Chapter 3 -- The Positivist School of Criminology -- Introduction -- Biological Positivism -- Johann Kasper Laveter (1741-1801) -- Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and Johann Spurzhein (1776-1832) -- Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) -- Criticism of Lombroso's Theory -- Other Pro-Lombroso Criminologists -- Enrico Ferri (1856-1929) -- Raffaele Garofalo (1852-1934) -- Psychological Positivism |
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Intelligence and Crime -- Psycho Analytic Theory (Sigmund Freud 1856-1939) -- Personality Theory -- Depression and Delinquency -- Hormones and Criminal Behaviour -- Hypoglycaemia and Criminal Behaviour -- Summary -- Chapter 4 -- Early Sociological Positivists and Socio-Structural Theories -- Introduction -- Early Sociological Positivists -- Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) -- Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) -- Social Structural Theories -- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): The Anomie Theory -- Robert Merton: Anomie/Strain Theory -- Robert Agnew: General Strain Theory |
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Social Disorganization Theory (Chicago School of Criminology) -- Deviant Subculture Theories -- Albert K. Cohen -- Walter B. Miller -- Summary -- Chapter 5 -- Social Process Theories -- Introduction -- Social Learning Theories -- Differential Association Theory -- Differential Reinforcement Theories (Robert L. Burgess -- Ronald L. Akers) -- Social Control Theories -- Matza's Drift Theory -- Social Control/Bond Theories (Travis Hirschi) -- Attachment -- Commitment -- Involvement -- Belief -- Gottfredson and Hirschi's Low Self-Control Theory -- Labelling Theory -- Summary -- Chapter 6 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criminology.
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Criminology. |
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Corrections.
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Corrections. |
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Crime prevention.
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Crime prevention. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mugari, Ishmael. An introduction to criminological theory, penology and crime prevention. Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, 2021 9781536191011 (DLC) 2020056055 |
| ISBN |
153619106X (electronic book) |
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9781536191066 (electronic book) |
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9781536191011 (hardcover) |
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1536191019 (hardcover) |
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