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Beyond Empiricism - Institutions and Intentions in the Study of Crime (Paperback)
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Beyond Empiricism - Institutions and Intentions in the Study of Crime (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Criminological Theory
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Beyond Empiricism expands the discourse on theories of criminal
behavior. It considers institutional, social, and individual issues
related to criminal behavior, while individually each raises
questions about the adequacy of current theoretical claims. The
topics have significant implications both for policy and research
in criminology. Per-Olof Wikstrom introduces a cross-level action
theory of crime. He suggests that better understanding of causal
mechanisms can lead to a situational theory of action based on
perception of alternatives and the process of choice. David Wolcott
and Steven Schlossman provide new perspectives on the issues of
racial disparity and the incarceration of adolescents in adult
prisons. These authors highlight gaps in our understanding of early
twentieth-century juvenile justice and negate some popular claims
about recent changes in the criminal law. Peter Grabosky spotlights
privatization policies in the criminal justice system, suggesting a
framework for analyzing the balance of advantage resulting from
three basic forms of institutional relationships in policing.
Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld discuss why institutional
analysis has been seriously underdeveloped in etiological analyses
of crime. Jordan Pederson and Matthew Shane scrutinize the concept
of aggression. Their descriptions of aggressive behavior among
non-human animals provide a fascinating backdrop for understanding
human actions. Joan McCord emphasizes the intentionality of crimes
as she argues that to understand what causes crime, one must have a
theory about what it means to act intentionally. After critically
appraising prior theories, McCord introduces and defends a new
theory of motivation based on a post-empiricist theory of language.
This latest volume in the distinguished Advances in Criminological
Theory series continues to add to the theoretical underpinnings of
the field, and will be important to all collections of social
science research on criminology.
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