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Toward a Unified Criminology - Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People and Society (Hardcover, New)
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Toward a Unified Criminology - Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People and Society (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
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"Why do people commit crimes? How do we control crime? The theories
that criminologists use to answer these questions are built on a
number of underlying assumptions, including those about the nature
of crime, free will, human nature, and society. These assumptions
have a fundamental impact on criminology: they largely determine
what criminologists study, the causes they examine, the control
strategies they recommend, and how they test their theories and
evaluate crime-control strategies. In Toward a Unified Criminology,
noted criminologist Robert Agnew provides a critical examination of
these assumptions, drawing on a range of research and perspectives
to argue that these assumptions are too restrictive, unduly
limiting the types of "crime" that are explored, the causes that
are considered, and the methods of data collection and analysis
that are employed. As such, they undermine our ability to explain
and control crime. Agnew then proposes an alternative set of
assumptions, drawing heavily on both mainstream and critical
theories of criminology, with the goal of laying the foundation for
a unified criminology that is better able to explain a broader
range of crimes"--
General
| Imprint: |
New York University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law |
| Release date: |
November 2011 |
| First published: |
November 2011 |
| Authors: |
Robert Agnew
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 153 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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| Pages: |
272 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8147-0508-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Crime & criminology >
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| LSN: |
0-8147-0508-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780814705087 |
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