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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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Book/TextUse in library HV6025 .G46 1987Off-site

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Description
x, 532 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Criminology
  • Criminal behavior
  • Crime > United States
  • Criminal act
  • Criminal act > United States
  • Criminology
  • criminology
  • Criminal act
  • Crime
  • Criminal behavior
  • Kriminalsoziologie
  • Kriminologie
  • United States
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