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Scientific criminology -- What is science? -- Assessing the properties of scientific criminology -- Progress within scientific fields -- Scientific progress in criminology -- Mechanistic science -- Mechanistic explanations -- Mechanism schemas -- Biosocial criminology -- Analytical criminology -- Mechanistic translations of criminological theories -- Social learning theory -- Social control theory -- General strain theory -- Mechanistic criminology -- Nondeclarative memory -- Declarative memory -- Theory of mind -- Conclusion -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.

part, PART I Criminology's founders and their discontents -- chapter INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS THEORY AND WHY ARE THERE DEBATES? -- chapter 1 DEBATING AMONG CRIMINOLOGY'S FOUNDERS -- chapter 2 DOES CRIME ORIGINATE FROM THE PERSON OR THE ENVIRONMENT? SOCIOLOGICAL VS. PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- part, PART II Great debates in the mid-to-late 20th century -- chapter 3 IS CRIME NATURAL OR DO WE LEARN IT? CONTROL AND CULTURAL DEVIANCE THEORIES -- chapter 4 DO WE NEED TO FOLLOW PEOPLE OVER TIME? CRIMINAL CAREERS VS. CRIMINAL PROPENSITY THEORIES -- chapter 5 WHO IS RIGHT? THEORY TESTING AND CONSTRUCTION IN CRIMINOLOGY -- chapter 6 BEYOND THE "SEMINAL TRIO": CRITICAL VS. TRADITIONAL AND CONSERVATIVE CRIMINOLOGY -- chapter 7 IS CRIMINOLOGY/CRIMINAL JUSTICE A TRUE DISCIPLINE? CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CRIMINOLOGY, AND THEIR EXISTENCE -- part, PART III Great debates in criminology methods and policy -- chapter 8 WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT CRIME? DEBATES AROUND POLICY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- chapter 9 ARE WE STILL DEBATING? CONTEMPORARY AND EMERGING DEBATES.

Critical criminological theories and perspectives are typically major components of Criminology degree courses. An Introduction to Critical Criminology is the first accessible text on these topics for students of criminology, sociology and social policy. Written by an experienced lecturer who specialises in the topic, it offers an in-depth but accessible introduction to foundational and contemporary theories and perspectives in critical criminology. In doing so, it introduces students to theories and perspectives that challenge mainstream criminological theories about the causes of crime, and the operation of the criminal justice system. With the inclusion of boxed examples, key points and sample essay questions An Introduction to Critical Criminology is ideal for students of Criminology because it explores in detail a vast array of critical criminological theories and perspectives

Understand crime, understand the city -- Place and locality: neighbourhoods and crime -- Urban economies -- Governance and social control in the urban arena -- Policing, the police and social order in the city -- Urban violence -- Housing systems, housing tenure and the dis/orderly city -- The political economy of urban safety.

Drawing on criminology, philosophy and theology, this book develops a theory of 'redemptive criminology' for practice in criminal justice settings. The therapeutic impulse for the text is a focus on the individual practitioner's ability to embrace difference with the other, to resist harsh penal measures and to bring about change from 'the bottom up'. By challenging concepts and practices of rehabilitation, the authors argue for the possibility of redemption and for forgiveness as the starting point. Using real-life examples and an interpretative approach, the book explores the connections between victims, perpetrators and the community. The text articulates challenges for the justice system and offers new insights into punishment and retribution

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: social democracy - the Utopia that worked -- 1 Social democracy: political history of a moral crusade -- 2 Social democratic criminology: the political and moral economy of crime and criminal justice -- 3 The strange death of social democratic criminology -- 4 Conclusion: born-again social democratic criminology -- Index.

The pressing nature of environmental threats, such as: climate change, land-grabbing, biopiracy, animal exploitation and human environmental victimisation, are pushing the entire world to seek alternatives to prevent environmental damage in every corner of the globe. Southern Green Criminology focuses on the threat the western world poses to the rest of the globe, and how Western imposed ideas of progress are damaging the planet, especially the southern hemisphere.In the past five years, the attention of green criminologists has been directed at the Global South as the geographical site that experiences the severest consequences of harmful environmental practices. Such criminological direction is aimed at combating the environmental harms that affect the geographical and the metaphorical Souths. The main topic of this book is the conflicts that arise in the interaction between human beings and our natural environment, seen from a Southern perspective with a focus on the victimisation of the South. This book is simultaneously a scientific and a political endeavour, and will prove invaluable to students, researchers and environmental enthusiasts alike.

Comprehensive and current, this handbook combines a wide range of international contributors to chart the uneasy relationship between feminism, criminology and victimology. It explores both the historical and contemporary questions posed by feminist work and is essential reading for anyone interested in feminism, criminology and social change.

A future of criminology and a criminologist for the ages /Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh --Some future trajectories for life course criminology /D. Wayne Osgood --Does the study of the age-crime curve have a future? /Rolf Loeber --Developmental origins of aggression : from social learning to epigenetics /Richard E. Tremblay --Biology of crime : past, present, and future perspectives /Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy --Self-control, then and now /Terrie E. Moffitt --Criminological theory : past achievements and future challenges /Terence P. Thornberry --Individuals' situational criminal actions : current knowledge and tomorrow's prospects /Per-Olof H. Wikström --Lack of empathy and offending : implications for tomorrow's research and practice /Darrick Jolliffe and Joseph Murray --Person-in-context : insights and issues in research on neighborhoods and crime /Gregory M. Zimmerman and Steven F. Messner --Risk and protective factors in the assessment of school bullies and victims /Maria M. Ttofi and Peter K. Smith --Adult onset offending : perspectives for future research /Georgia Zara --The next generation of longitudinal studies /Magda Stouthamer-Loeber --Research on criminal careers, part 1 : contributions, opportunities, and needs /Alfred Blumstein --Research on criminal careers, part 2 : looking back to predict ahead /Alex R. Piquero --The harvesting of administrative records : new problems, great potential /Howard N. Snyder --Twenty-five years of developmental criminology : what we know, what we need to know /Marc Le Blanc --Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge on desistance from crime /Lila Kazemian --Does psychopathology appear fully only in adulthood? /Raymond R. Corrado --Preventing delinquency by putting families first /Brandon C. Welsh --The future of preventive public health : implications of brain violence research /Frederick P. Rivara --"Own the place, own the crime" prevention : how evidence about place-based crime shifts the burden of prevention /John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette --Community approaches to preventing crime and violence : the challenge of building prevention capacity /Ross Homel and Tara Renae McGee --Taking effective crime prevention to scale : from school-based programs to community-wide prevention systems /J. David Hawkins [and others] --The human experiment in treatment : a means to the end of offender recidivism /Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong --Towards a third phase of "what works" in offender rehabilitation /Friedrich Lösel --Raising the bar : transforming knowledge to practice for children in conflict with the law /Leena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl --Intervening with violence : priorities for reform from a public health perspective /Jonathan P. Shepherd --How to reduce the global homicide rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060 /Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette --The problem with macro-criminology /James Q. Wilson --Staking out the next generation of studies of the criminology of place : collecting prospective longitudinal data at crime hot spots /David Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Justin Ready --The futures of experimental criminology /Lawrence W. Sherman --Stopping crime requires successful implementation of what works /Irvin Waller --The future of sentencing and its control /Michael Tonry.

Cover -- Title Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Nature and Scope of a Moral Science -- PART I: ORIENTATIONS -- 1. Criminology and Moral Philosophy: Prospects for Fuller Engagement -- 2. Implementing the 'Moral Turn' in the Social Sciences: Three Obstacles and Three Solutions -- PART II: CRIMINAL JUSTICE-RELATED ETHICAL DILEMMAS -- 3. Whistleblowing: An Ethical Analysis of Police Officers' Reporting of Misconduct by Colleagues -- 4. Morality, Motherhood and (Ex-)Prisoners' Children -- PART III: MORAL EMOTIONS: SHAME AND GUILT -- 5. A Plea for Guilt -- 6. Taking the Long View: The Role of Shame and Guilt in Desistance -- PART IV: DESISTANCE FROM CRIME: ANALYSES IN POSITIVE AND CRITICAL MORALITY -- 7. 'Yo, God, What Should I Do?': Striving for Moral Consistency After Prison -- 8. Ethical Aspects of Journeys Towards Desistance by Male Young Adult Recidivists -- 9. Living Non-Criminal Lives: What Role for the State? -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- Copyright Page.