Product Description: Reflecting a diversity of thought and intellectual power, this unique volume provides undergraduate students with an important historical context and demonstrates the continuity of many issues in the fields of criminology and criminal justice...read more

Product Description: Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts calls for rethinking the development of criminological theory. In her introduction, Joan McCord argues that the field is ready for new approaches and that its progress depends on a sound factual base...read more

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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: In a world in which children exhibit levels of violence that are strikingly unchildlike, the question of how to rear children takes on an immediacy for parents and psychologists. Among the issues treated here are whether physical punishment prevents further outbreaks of violent behavior or if there are ways of influencing children so that punishment is not necessary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A volume in the American Sociological Association's Issue Series on Research and Social Policy. No topic is of greater importance to the health and well being of our society than the presence of violence in our culture. Drawing upon social science research, this volume presents trends in youth violence, the causes of youth violence, and the lessons learned from intervention programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often afflicts urban childhood. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)