Criminology: a sociological understanding
"This edition has been thoroughly revised. It includes the latest crime and criminal justice statistics available as the book went to production, and it discusses the latest research on crime and criminal justice issues that had appeared by that time, with more than one hundred new references added and some older ones deleted. In addition, each theory chapter now ends with a new Theory and Policy section that discusses the implications of the chapter's theories for strategies to reduce crime. This seventh edition continues the popular features of the previous one, including the chapter-opening Crime in the News vignettes ripped from the headlines (all new from 2016) that engage students' attention and demonstrate the text's relevance for real-life events and issues; the Crime and Controversy and International Focus boxes, several of them new or revised for this edition, that respectively highlight crime and justice issues within the United States and abroad; and the What Would You Do? feature at the end of each chapter that presents hypothetical scenarios on real-world situations faced by criminal justice professionals and average citizens alike"--