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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Introduction -- 1 Classical and Rational Choice Theories -- 1.1 Free Will and Determinism? Reading Beccaria's Of Crimes and Punishments (1764) as a Text of Enlightenment -- 1.2 The Rational Choice Perspective -- 2 Biological and Biosocial Theories -- 2.1 Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Criminology: Rethinking Criminological Tradition -- 2.2 Integrating Findings from Neurobiology into Criminological Thought: Issues, Solutions, and Implications -- 3 Psychological Theories -- 3.1 Forty Years of the Yochelson/Samenow Work: A Perspective -- 3.2 Contributions of Community Psychology to Criminal Justice: Prevention Research and Intervention -- 4 Social Learning and Neutralization Theory -- 4.1 Social Learning Theory: Correcting Misconceptions -- 4.2 Techniques of Neutralization -- 5 Social Control Theories -- 5.1 Social Control and Self-Control Theory -- 5.2 Social Control Theory and Direct Parental Controls -- 6 Social Ecology and Subcultural Theories -- 6.1 Social Ecology and Collective Efficacy Theory -- 6.2 Gangs as Social Actors -- 7 Anomie and Strain Theories -- 7.1 General Strain Theory -- 7.2 The Origins, Nature, and Prospects of Institutional-Anomie Theory -- 7.3 Global Anomie Theory and Crime -- 8 Conflict and Radical Theories -- 8.1 Criminology and Conflict Theory -- 8.2 The New Radical Criminology and the Same Old Criticisms -- 9 Feminist and Gender Theories -- 9.1 Feminist Thinking About Crime -- 9.2 Masculinities and Theoretical Criminology -- 10 Postmodernism and Critical Cultural Theory -- 10.1 Postmodern Theory and Criminology -- 10.2 Edgework: Negotiating Boundaries -- 10.3 Cultural Criminology -- 11 Anarchism, Peacemaking, and Restorative Justice -- 11.1 Needs-Based Anarchist Criminology -- 11.2 Peacemaking -- 11.3 Reintegrative Shaming

This bestselling crimninology text offers a concise introduction to the nature and extent of crime while surveying core perspectives on crime causation and their policy implications with a sociological context.