Expands psychological and some biological theories of the origins of crime, its varieties, and to effects of social and legal responses to it. Based primarily o
The title that the authors have chosen for this book, The Causes and Cures of Criminality, suggests that it may be just another book specu lating on the sociolo
In this century, social factors have dominated theories of antisocial behaviour to the near-exclusion of other explanatory variables in the study of criminology
Intended to bridge the gap between theory and the real world of crime and criminal justice, discussing what crime is, why criminologists think people commit cri
From Simon & Schuster, Crime & Human Nature is the definitive study of the causes of crime. Assembling the latest evidence from the fields of sociology, crimino