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Communicating the excitement and importance of criminal justice
research, this practical and comprehensive book shows students how
to perform and understand statistical analyses, while helping them
recognize the connection between statistical analyses used in
everyday life and their importance to criminology and criminal
justice. This updated Fifth Edition is packed with real-world case
studies and contemporary examples utilizing the most current crime
data and empirical research available. Each chapter presents a
particular statistical method in the context of a substantive
research story.
This book addresses one of the most controversial issues in the
criminal justice system today--the death penalty. Paternoster et
al. present a balanced perspective that focuses on both the
arguments for and against capital punishment. Coverage draws on
legal, historical, philosophical, economic, sociological, and
religious points of view.
Topics include:
* The history of the death penalty in the United States, from the
1600s to today
* The changing nature of the death penalty--changes in the types
of crimes that warranted the penalty, the procedures employed to
put capital offenders on trial, and the methods used to impose
death
* Constitutional/legal issues surrounding the death penalty
* The influence of race on the administration of the death
penalty, both in the past and in the present
* Justifications for and against the death penalty (retribution,
cost, public safety, and religious arguments)
* Questions about the execution of innocents, exonerated capital
offenders, and flaws in the operation of the death penalty
* Public opinion and the death penalty
* The death penalty and international law and practice
* The future of the death penalty in America
Social Deviance and Crime unites two topics that are usually
separated: the study of social deviance and the study of criminal
behavior. Traditionally, the study of deviance introduces students
to various types of deviance, giving the impression that these are
distinct acts requiring equally distinct and unique explanations.
The study of crime has followed virtually the same path.
Criminology textbooks usually describe a series of criminal acts,
one at a time, fostering the impression that these acts have only
one thing in common--they are all violations of the criminal law.
As a result, treatment of deviance and crime in most texts has
proceeded along two different and parallel tracts, with little or
no convergence.
In Social Deviance and Crime, Tittle and Paternoster contend that
acts of social deviance and criminality share important conceptual
ground: both are types of behaviors that are socially disapproved,
and specific acts differ mainly in the degree to which they are
disapproved. The authors argue that social disapproval is an
important characteristic that links apparently diverse behaviors
(religious and sexual deviance, organized crime, youth gangs, drug
use, serial murder, etc.). This book differs significantly from
other texts in the way it bridges deviance and crime within a
single conceptual and explanatory framework.
Social Deviance and Crime's approach is also unique. Texts in
criminology and deviance often adopt either an
"interactionist/constructionist" or a "substantive" perspective.
This book treats deviance as an integrated concept, differentiated
chiefly by how well deviant/criminal enterprises are organized. The
authors describe and analyze differenttypes of deviant/criminal
acts according to an ascending scale created by combining nine
different features of organization. The text then explores theories
and explanations about how deviance takes place, how it develops,
and why it is maintained. Also included is a discussion of
variations in the distribution/rate of deviant acts within society,
and how theory can and cannot account for these known
variations.
Tittle and Paternoster interweave conceptual and empirical
material together, giving students an opportunity to understand the
impact of theory on research. Every chapter features Deviance in
Everyday Life boxes. Here, the authors provide vivid, real-world
examples of deviance, deviance organization, and attempts by
society to "do something about" deviance.
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