Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences - Softcover

James Lilly; Francis Cullen; Richard Ball

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ISBN 10: 141298145X ISBN 13: 9781412981453

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

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The fifth edition of Criminological Theory: Contexts and Consequences builds on the success of previous editions with updated coverage of criminological theory within a broader sociological and historical context. Its diverse coverage of major theories spans traditional and contemporary perspectives, with an eye toward the policy implications inherent within the theory.

New to the Fifth Edition:

"Chapter on White Collar Crime, and the theories behind it

"Updated coverage of emerging biological theories, including advances in biotechnology such as brain imaging and implications of DNA

"New material on the major societal shifts in the last thirty years, and their impact on crime theory including:

1. Immigration and depression in the first half of the 20th century

2. The 1960s into the 1970s

3. The conservative movement started by Nixon and expanded by Reagan

Biografía del autor:

J. Robert Lilly is Regents Professor of Sociology/Criminology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Northern Kentucky University. His research interests include the pattern of capital crimes committed by U.S. soldiers during World War II, the “commercial-corrections complex,” juvenile delinquency, house arrest and electronic monitoring, criminal justice in the People’s Republic of China, the sociology of law, and criminological theory. He has published in Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Social Problems, Legal Studies Forum, Northern Kentucky Law Review, Journal of Drug Issues, The New Scholar, Adolescence, Qualitative Sociology, Federal Probation, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, Justice Quarterly, and The Howard Journal. He has coauthored several articles and book chapters with Richard A. Ball, and he is coauthor of House Arrest and Correctional Policy: Doing Time at Home. In 2003 he published La Face Cachee Des GI’s: Les Viols commis par des soldats amercains en France, en Angleterre et en Allemange pendat la Second Guerre mondial. It was translated into Italian and published (2004) as Stupppi Di Guerra: Le Violenze Commesse Dai Soldati Americani in Gran Bretagna, Francia e Germania 1942–1945. It was published in English in 2007. The latter work is part of his extensive research on patterns of crimes and punishments experienced by U.S. soldiers in WWII in the European Theater of War. The Hidden Face of the Liberators, a made-for-TV documentary by Program 33 (Paris), was broadcast in Switzerland and France in March 2006 and was a finalist at the International Television Festival of Monte Carlo in 2007. He is the past treasurer of the American Society of Criminology. In 1988, he was a visiting professor in the School of Law at Leicester Polytechnic and was a visiting scholar at All Soul’s College in Oxford, England. In 1992, he became a visiting professor at the University of Durham in England. He was co-editor of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice from 2006-2012.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 141298145X
• ISBN 13: 9781412981453
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 504