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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.

Over the past decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite (1951) has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is universally considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our times and he has characteristically put his scientific engagement at the service of humanity and society by aiming at social justice, participative democracy, sustainable development and world peace. His relentless efforts to create links between the study of criminology and other scientific disciplines has led the K.U. Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) t

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

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.

Part one. Reducing harm, increasing agency -- Selling sex -- Institutional violence against those who sell sex -- Sexual education -- Reproductive justice -- Part two. Decriminalizing desire -- Carceral facilities -- BDSM and consent -- Young people's sexual identities and behaviors.