Social class and crime : a biosocial approach / / by Anthony Walsh

• Autore: Walsh Anthony <1941-, >
• 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
• 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: 1-136-91875-2; 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.: 9910814823303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in criminology ; ; 9.