Social class and crime : a biosocial approach / / by Anthony Walsh
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| Autore: |
Walsh Anthony <1941-, >
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| Titolo: |
Social class and crime : a biosocial approach / / by Anthony Walsh
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.2/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Criminology |
| Criminal behavior - Social aspects | |
| Criminal behavior - Genetic aspects | |
| Sociobiology | |
| Social classes | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [p. 143] - 162) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Biosocial Approach; 2 Genes, Environments and Behavior; 3 Evolutionary Psychology, Crime and Status; 4 The Neurosciences, Conscience and the Soft-Wired Brain; 5 Social Class and Criminal Behavior: Myth or Reality?; 6 The Class-Crime Relationship in Criminological Theories; 7 Social Class and Socialization; 8 Poverty, Crime and Developmental Neurobiology; 9 Social Stratification, the Genome, and Social Structure; 10 The Nature and Nurture of Intelligence; 11 Class Mobility: Ascription or Achievement?; Epilogue |
| ReferencesIndex | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Social class has been at the forefront of sociological theories of crime from their inception. It is explicitly central to some theories such as anomie/strain and conflict, and nips aggressively at the periphery of others such as social control theory. Yet none of these theories engage in a systematic exploration of what social class is, how individuals come to be placed in one rung of the class ladder rather than another, or the precise nature of the class-crime relationship. This book avers that the same factors that help to determine a person's class level also help to determine that per |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Social class and crime |
| ISBN: | 1-136-91876-0 |
| 1-282-78100-6 | |
| 9786612781001 | |
| 0-203-84424-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460014503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge advances in criminology ; ; 9.