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The essential criminology reader

Henry, Stuart. (Added Author). Lanier, Mark. (Added Author).

Summary: Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henry's 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 Henry's 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 author's 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.

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ISBN: 9780813343198
ISBN: 0786738359
ISBN: 9780786738359
ISBN: 1283008912
ISBN: 9781283008914
Physical Description: 1 online resource (504)
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Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	11.2 Peacemaking by Hal Pepinsky11.3 Reintegrative Shaming by John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, and Eliza Ahmed; 12 Left Realist Theories; 12.1 Inequality, Community, and Crime by Elliott Currie; 12.2 Left Realist Theory by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz; 13 Integrated Theories and Pause for Reflection; 13.1 The Integrated Systems Theory of Antisocial Behavior by Matthew Robinson; 13.2 Applying Integrated Theory A Reciprocal Theory of Violence and Nonviolence by Gregg Barak; 13.3 Criminologist as Witness by Richard Quinney; Contributors; Index
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.