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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459897503321

Titolo

International handbook of criminology / / edited by Shlomo Giora Shoham, Paul Knepper, Martin Kett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-429-25000-2

1-282-50397-9

9786612503979

1-4200-8552-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (728 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShohamS. Giora <1929->

KnepperPaul

KettMartin

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Criminology

Criminal justice, Administration of

Crime prevention

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crime science / Ken Pease -- Born for evil? : biological theories of crime in historical perspective / Neil Davie -- Life course criminology / Arjan Blokland and Paul Nieuwbeerta -- Making sense of criminal justice / David Nelsen -- The politics of numbers : crime statistics as a source of knowledge and a tool of governance / Heidi Mork Lomell -- The subculture concept : a geneology / Albert Bell -- Anthropologies of domestic violence : studying crime in situ / Madelaine Adelman -- Methodological issues in the comparison of police recorded-crime rates / Marcelo Aebi -- Transnational environmental harm and eco-global criminology / Rob White -- Perpetrators and victims of sex crimes / Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs -- Financial crimes in comparative context / Michael Levi -- Studying criminality and criminal offenders in the early twentieth-century Philippines / Filomin Gutierrez -- Affluence, disadvantage, and fear of crime / Murray Lee -- Closed-circuit television : a review of its development and its implications for privacy



/ Clive Norris -- Crime and social policy / Chris Grover -- Truth, reality, justice, and the crime genre : implications for criminological inquiry and pedagogy / Gray Cavender and Nancy Jurik -- The police response to crime / Megan O'Neill -- The European experience of crime prevention / Rosella Selmini -- Class, inequality, and the etiology of crime / Jukka Savolainen -- Youth gangs in a global context / Juanjo Medina Ariza -- Victim participation in the criminal justice process : normative dilemmas and practical responses / Edna Erez and Julian V. Roberts -- Spatial analysis of street crimes / Circe M.G. Monteiro -- Understanding of repeat victimization : a longitudinal study / Anthony E. Bottoms and Andrew Costello.