Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.
Table of Contents
Differential association theory and female crime / Peggy C. Giordano and Sharon Mohler Rockwell -- Feminist theories of women's crime / Jody Miller -- Racial hoaxes / Katheryn K. Russell -- The war on crime as hegemonic strategy / Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson -- The systemic theory of neighborhood crime rates / Robert J. Bursik -- Strain theory and school crime / Robert Agnew -- The dramatization of evil : reacting to juvenile delinquency during the 1990s / Ruth Triplett.