Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The Handbook of Deviant Behavior presents a comprehensive, integrative, and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the twenty-first century. This book addresses the full range of scholarly concerns within this area – including theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues – in over seventy original entries, written by an international mix of recognized scholars...read more

Product Description: Criminological Theory: Past to Present--Essential Readings, Fourth Edition, offers the most comprehensive overview of classic and contemporary theories of crime. Edited by leading scholars Francis T. Cullen and Robert Agnew, it presents a wide range of readings, including original theory pieces...read more

Product Description: Working from a unique, question-centered structure, the third edition of Robert Agnew's popular Juvenile Delinquency offers a clear and concise overview of the theories and research on the causes and control of delinquency. In this engaging text, Agnew provides an overview of the leading theories of delinquency--strain theory, social learning theory, social- and self-control theory, labeling theory, and situational theories--and discusses the latest research on the causes of delinquency, from biological research to research on the social environment...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on what is probably the most frequently asked question about crime: Why do criminals offend? Renowned criminologist Robert Agnew draws on a broad range of crime theories and the latest research to present a general theory of crime and delinquency, rich with student-accessible examples...read more

Product Description: In the second edition of Interviewing, experienced educators Rob Anderson and G. Michael Killenberg explain and demystify the interviewing process, offering students a practical guide to the fascinating art of asking and answering questions...read more

This book allows students to explore this major theory in depth, reviewing the research on the theory, comparing it to other theories, and applying the theory to key issues in the study of crime.

Product Description: Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!  Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests...read more

Product Description: Roxbury is pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of Cullen and Agnew’s popular and acclaimed CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY: Past to Present (Essential Readings). This comprehensive anthology takes readers on an excursion from "past to present," reviewing classic and contemporary contributions and showing how current theories are opening new and exciting doorways into understanding crime...read more

Product Description: This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in anomie theory as an approach to explain deviant or criminal behavior. The concept argues that society encourages individuals to seek lofty goals but fails to effectively regulate their conduct in pursuit of those unattainable ideals; this breakdown in social structure pressures individuals to commit crimes because they are unable to satisfy desires through legitimate means...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)