Contents:
List of tables and figures
Preface and acknowledgments
1 What is criminology? The study of crime, criminals, and victims in a global context
2 What Is crime? Defining the problem
3 Classical, neoclassical, and rational-choice theories
4 "Born to Be Bad" biological, physiological, and biosocial theories of crime
5 Criminal minds: psychiatric and psychological explanations for crime
6 Learning criminal behavior: social process theories
7 Failed socialization: control theory, social bonds, and labeling
8 Crimes of place: social ecology and cultural theories of crime
9 The sick society: anomie, strain, and subcultural theory
10 Capitalism as a criminogenic society: conflict and radical theories of crime
11 Patriarchy, gender and crime: feminist criminological theory
12 New directions in critical criminological theory
13 conclusion: toward a unified criminology