This uniquely comprehensive book provides instructors and students the best of both worlds - a text with carefully selected accompanying readings. Each Section has a 15 page introduction (a "mini-chapter) that contains vignettes, photos, tables and graphs, end of chapter questions and Web-exercises and is followed by 3-4 supporting readings. The ...
This unique text offers an interdisciplinary perspective on crime and criminality by integrating the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, and biology. Offering a more complete look at the world of criminology than any other existing text, authors Anthony Walsh and Lee Ellis first present criminological theory and ...
Law, Justice, and Society is a text designed for use in courses such as Law and Social Justice, Introduction to Law, and Sociology of Law. Criminal justice is one of the fastest growing majors among students across the country, and more departments are offering a course on law. This textbook also has a market in political science and sociology ...
This edition covers practical interviewing and counseling skills, including how to adapt counseling theories to community or institutional corrections, and how to supervise the alcoholic, drug addict, sex offender, schizophrenic, and mentally immature client. Sample case materials, such as presentence reports, sentencing guidelines, classification ...
Criminology: A Global Perspective is an excellent teaching tool, explicitly written to provide the broadest coverage of any criminology text available, including research examples from around the world. The discussions acquaint students with numerous "correlates of crime" including: demographics, ecology, macroeconomics, family, institutions, ...
This is a core text/reader for undergraduate and graduate corrections courses. It can serve either as a supplement to a core textbook or as a stand-alone course text. Each chapter begins with 15 pages of text that includes photos, figures and tables and is followed by carefully selected articles authored by leading scholars in the field.
For undergraduate-level courses in Introductory Statistics in any social/behavioral science program. Designed specifically to teach statistics to social and behavioral science majors, this text features a conceptual, intuitive approach that clearly shows the continuity and interrelatedness of the techniques discussed. It helps students become ...
The topic of 'love' has been addressed in books that range from collections of syrupy aphorisms to 'how-to' books on relationships. But love is far too broad and interesting a topic to be limited in this way. Although this book includes three chapters on romantic love, it broadens the scope to include the role of love in the developmental process ...
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What is the first question our parents asked about us after we were born? Probably, 'Is it a boy or a girl?' No single fact about us is more significant than our sex. In any human culture, it determines how others react to us and how they treat us. "Viva Le Difference", a light-hearted exploration of sex differences, shows how this view violates ...
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.
The Summa Theologiae ranks among the greatest documents of the Christian Church, and is a landmark of medieval western thought. It provides the framework for Catholic studies in systematic theology and for a classical Christian philosophy, and is regularly consulted by scholars of all faiths and none, across a range of academic disciplines. This ...
An ideal introductory law textbook, From Law to Order is the collaborative effort of two authors with extensive backgrounds in teaching and field practice. It examines the many facets of our legal system including: What is Law?; Making Law; Federal and State Courts; Criminal Law; Civil Law and Juvenile Justice; The Law and Social Change; ...
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.
This book examines the incendiary issue of racial variation in crime rates in the United States and in many other countries using a variety of data sources. It examines the latest genetic data asserting the reality of the concept of race, and various lines of evidence from population genetics, evolutionary biology, and anthropology pertinent to ...
Since the mid-1980s, information technology (IT) has been recognized as one of the crucial areas affecting the accounting profession. IT is changing the way companies do business: as corporations spend more on IT, accountants must manage new organizational principles brought on by new technologies and must learn to use IT systems specifically ...
This text provides an introduction to biophysical systems that are relevant to the understanding of human behaviour. These systems are explored in the contexts of sociological importance, such as socialisation, learning, gender roles and differences, sexuality, the family, deviance and criminality.
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 criminology in general has a propensity to see it as racist, ...
In criminology, environmentalism is the assumption that variations in criminal behaviour result only from variations in environmental factors, especially social environmental factors. The biosocial perspective is quite different. It assumes that biological and environmental factors interact to affect criminal behaviour. Social environmental ...
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