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Varieties of Criminology Readings from a Dynamic Discipline
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Gregg Barak
Book Code: C4485
ISBN: 0-275-94485-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94485-8
320 pages, figures, maps
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/1993
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Whether criminologists position themselves in the "left" or "right" of the field, the reality common to their work involves a reconsideration of virtually all of our past theoretical journeys in criminology. This book captures the range of criminological thinking today, and provides a picture of a dynamic discipline in transition. Chapters consider contemporary theoretical development and discussion, focusing on street crime, youth and identity, and crime and social control in relation to questions of gender, class, race, learning, and culture. While there is disagreement among the authors about whether criminologists are developing "new" theory or circulating "old" theory, their contributions in this reader demonstrate the emerging plurality in criminological discourse, revealing continuities and discontinuities between "old" and "new."
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Criminological Theory in the "Postmodernist" Era by Gregg Barak
  • Mainstream Criminology
  • Biological and Neuropsychiatric Approaches to Criminal Behavior by C. Ray Jeffery
  • Crime and Psychology of Mind: A Neo-Cognitive View of Delinquency by Thomas Kelley
  • Human Ecology and Social Disorganization Revisit Little Rock by Jeffery T. Walker
  • Strain, Relative Deprivation, and Middle-Class Delinquency by Velmer S. Burton, Jr. and R. Gregory Dunaway
  • Social Control, Family Structure, and Delinquency by Joseph H. Rankin and L. Edward Wells
  • The Collective Reality of Crime: An Integrative Approach to the Causes and Consequences of the Criminal Event by Frank Schmalleger and Ted Alleman
  • A Neofunctionalist Model of Crime and Crime Control by Thomas O'Connor
  • Critical Criminology
  • Confronting the Agenda of Authority: Critical Criminology, Anarchism, and Urban Graffiti by Jeff Ferrell
  • Young People, Culture, and the Construction of Crime: Doing Wrong versus Doing Crime by Mike Presdee
  • Crime, Excitement, and Modernity by Pat O'Malley and Stephen Mugford
  • Gender and Justice: Feminist Contributions to Criminology by Susan Caulfield and Nancy Wonders
  • Law, Ideology, and Subjectivity: A Semiotic Perspective on Crime and Justice by Dragan Milovanovic
  • Crime, Criminology, and Human Rights: Toward an Understanding of State Criminality by Gregg Barak
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 93-14138
LCC Class: HV6025
Dewey Class: 364
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