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Society, crime, and criminal behavior

Title: Society, crime, and criminal behavior / Don C. Gibbons.
Author: Gibbons, Don C.
Publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1987.

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Description

x, 532 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Crime in modern society -- The origins of criminology -- Contemporary criminology -- Crime and the criminal law -- Extent and distribution of crime -- Social structure and criminality: mainstream perspectives -- Social structure and criminality: new directions -- Explaining criminal behavior: biogenic and psychogenic approaches -- Explaining criminal behavior: sociogenic approaches -- Patterns of crime and criminal behavior -- Causal analysis -- Garden-variety predatory crime -- Homicides, assaults, and sex crimes -- Organization and occupational crime -- Organized crime -- Mundane crime -- Women, crime, and the criminal-justice system -- Political crime -- Becoming a "criminal": the police -- Becoming a "criminal": from arrest to trial -- Punishment and treatment of convicted offenders -- Correctional social organization -- Crime, criminology, and criminologists.

ISBN

0138201366
9780138201364

LCCN

86012204

OCLC

ocm13582406
13582406
SCSB-1170086

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library