Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader (SAGE Text/Reader Series in Criminology and Criminal Justice) - Softcover

Walsh, Anthony; Hemmens, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452258201 ISBN 13: 9781452258201

Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd., 2013

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Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader, Third Edition takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the study of criminology. This unique text/reader by Anthony Walsh and Craig T. Hemmens provides instructors and students with the best of both worlds—authored text with carefully selected accompanying readings. Thoroughly updated throughout with significant additions to the text parts, this Third Edition incorporates the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and the neurosciences.

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Anthony Walsh, is a professor of criminology at Boise State University. He received his PhD from Bowling Green State University at the ripe old age of 43. He has field experience in law enforcement and corrections and is the author of more than 150 journal articles and book chapters and 41 books, including Biology and Criminology; Feminist Criminology Through a Biosocial Lens; Law, Justice, and Society (with Hemmens); Correctional Assessment, Casework, and Counseling (with Stohr); The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction (with Bolen, Ashgate); Corrections: The Essentials (with Stohr); The Science Wars: The Politics of Gender and Race; Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions; Biosociology: Bridging the Biology-Sociology Divide; Criminology: The Essentials (with Jorgensen); and Answering Atheists: How Science Points to God and the Benefits of Christianity. His interests include biosocial criminology, statistics, and criminal justice assessment and counseling.

Craig Hemmens is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. He holds a JD from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a PhD in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. Professor Hemmens has published 20 books and more than 200 articles, many dealing with legal issues in criminal justice. He currently serves as editor of the Criminal Law Bulletin and previously served as the editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education and as president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. His current research interests include criminal law and procedure.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1452258201
• ISBN 13: 9781452258201
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 607
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