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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781234703321

Titolo

Crime and criminal behavior / / general editor, William J. Chambliss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2011

Los Angeles : , : Sage Reference, , 2011

ISBN

1-78034-127-X

1-4522-6644-1

1-4129-9411-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 323 pages)

Collana

Key issues in crime and punishment

Disciplina

364.0973

Soggetti

Crime

Criminal behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Age of Consent / Frances P. Bernat -- Antisocial Personality Disorders / Focquaert Farah & Adrian Raine -- Child Abuse / Wendelin M. Hume -- Civil Disobedience / Wm. C. Plouffe Jr. -- Corporate Crime / Robert F. Meier -- Date Rape / Erica L. Fields -- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide / J. C. Oleson -- Gambling / David G. Schwartz -- Guns / Matt R. Nobles -- Hate Crimes / Jennifer N. Grimes -- Intellectual Property Rights / Elizabeth E. Martinez -- Internet Crime / Billy Henson -- Prescription Drug Abuse / Melissa Tackett-Gibson -- Prostitution / Sharon S. Oselin -- Religious Convictions / Michael D. Royster & Kamesha S. Spates -- State Crime / Dawn L. Rothe -- Terrorism and Extremism / Stan C. Weber -- Undocumented Immigrants / Karen K. Clark -- Vagrancy and the Homeless / Stephen Pimpare -- War Crimes / Karen K. Clark.

Sommario/riassunto

'Crime and Criminal Behavior' delves into such hotly debated topics as age of consent, euthanasia and assisted suicide, guns, gambling, Internet pornography, religious convictions, terrorism and extremism.