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In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark ""Ford Pinto case"" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law. Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits from injured parties seeking financial compensation. They also may be charged with criminal offenses and their officials sent to prison.

This volume is divided into five sections that, when taken together, offer an informative account of the impact of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's Social Sources of Delinquency on the development of American criminological thought. This classic book was her major contribution to the field. Section I tells the story of Kornhauser's brief but influential academic career. Section II probes deeply into the specific ways in which she challenged criminological theory and the subsequent responses that were forthcoming. Section III then presents commentary on the lines of inquiry inspired by Kornhauser's book and orientation to criminological theory. Section IV explores recent efforts to move beyond Kornhauser's insights on communities and crime. Section V concludes with three critical essays contending that Social Sources of Delinquency paid insufficient attention to criminal motivation, the role of opportunity in offending, and gangs and girls. -- from dust jacket.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The New Warfare and Old Truths: How Our Technologies are Still Our Allies -- 2. The Shock of the Old -- 3. WTC + 2 Update -- 4. A Brief History of Terrorism in the United States -- 5. Terrorism as Technology: A Discussion of the Theoretical Underpinnings -- 6. Securing Through Technology? "Smart Borders" after September 11th -- 7. Hacktivism: Securing the National Infrastructure -- 8. Terrorism and the Internet: Resistance in the Information Age -- 9. Cyber Terror: Missing in Action -- 10. Risk, Terrorism, and the Internet -- 11. The Dark Side of Tinkering -- 12. Code Wars: Steganography, Signals Intelligence, and Terrorism -- 13. Morphing the Counter-Terrorist Response: Beating the Bombers in London's Financial Heart -- 14. Research after September 11: Security is Now the Sturdy Child of Terror -- 15. The Academy and Fourth Generation Warfare -- Index

For over a half century, criminology has been dominated by a paradigm—adolescence‐limited criminology (ALC)—that has privileged the use of self‐report surveys of adolescents to test sociological theories of criminal behavior and has embraced the view that "nothing works" to control crime. Although ALC has created knowledge, opposed injustice, and advanced scholars' careers, it has outlived its utility. The time has come for criminologists to choose a different future. Thus, a new paradigm is needed that is rooted in life‐course criminology, brings criminologists closer to offenders and to the crime event, prioritizes the organization of knowledge, and produces scientific knowledge that is capable of improving offenders' lives and reducing crime.

Three decades ago, it was widely believed by criminologists and policymakers that "nothing works" to reform offenders and that "rehabilitation is dead" as a guiding correctional philosophy. By contrast, today there is a vibrant movement to reaffirm rehabilitation and to implement programs based on the principles of effective intervention. How did this happen? I contend that the saving of rehabilitation was a contingent reality that emerged due to the efforts of a small group of loosely coupled research criminologists. These scholars rejected the "nothing works" professional ideology and instead used rigorous science to show that popular punitive interventions were ineffective, that offenders were not beyond redemption, and that treatment programs rooted in criminological knowledge were capable of meaningfully reducing recidivism. Their story is a reminder that, under certain conditions, the science of criminology is capable of making an important difference in the correctional enterprise, if not far beyond.

Questions the assertion that crimes committed by the elderly are increasing; based on a study of data from FBI crime records from 1967-82.