Synopses & Reviews
Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henrys best-selling Essential Criminology textbook, this new reader is an up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses. The Essential Criminology Reader contains 30 original articles on current developments in criminological theory. Commissioned specifically for The Reader, these short essays were written by leading scholars in the field. Each chapter complements one of 13 different theoretical perspectives covered in Lanier and Henrys Essential Criminology text and contains between two and three articles from leading theorists on each perspective. Each chapter of The Reader features: a brief summary of the main ideas of the theory the ways the authors theory has been misinterpreted/distorted criticisms by others of the theory and how the author has responded a summary of the balance of the empirical findings the latest developments in their theoretical position policy implications/practice of their theory
Synopsis
An up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses.
About the Author
Mark M. Lanier is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. He holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree from Michigan State University with (1993). He taught at Eastern Michigan University from 1994-95. He has published numerous articles in a variety of disciplinary journals including public health, criminal justice, criminology, law and psychology. His funded research is on youth and HIV/AIDS and community policing. He was awarded Distinguished Researcher of the Year from the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida in 1997. He co-authored (with Stuart Henry) Essential Criminology (1998; 2004) and co-edited (with Stuart Henry) What is Crime? (2001). Stuart Henry is Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State University. Dr. Henry’s research focuses on issues of crime, deviance and social control. He has 21 books published, including Criminological Theory (with Werner Einstadter, 1995) and Constitutive Criminology (with Dragan Milovanovic, 1996). His most recent books include: What is Crime? (with Mark Lanier, 2001) and Essential Criminology 2nd edition (with Mark Lanier, 2004). He serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology and Critical Criminology. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Integrative Studies.