Criminology - Softcover

Conklin, John E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205608965 ISBN 13: 9780205608966

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2010

Synopsis

Unique in its approach, this book introduces students to criminology by examining broad-based concepts instead of just types of crimes. Using an extensive research base, the author discusses concepts such as social control and neutralization of the law; factors that facilitate crime; criminal careers; and the organization of criminal behavior. Real-life examples and special feature boxes appear throughout and address crime and the media, crime on campus, cross-cultural perspectives and critical issues. Figures, tables and in-depth review questions are included and help students understand the common social process among all types of crime.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Now in its tenth edition, Criminology continues to examine crime in a broad context, looking closely at the socioeconomic sources of crime and the organization of criminal behavior. This distinctive approach offers readers a uniquely broad-based perspective and advances the overall understanding of crime.

 

The tenth edition includes new or expanded coverage of:

•  The media’s contribution to the fear of crime (Chapter 1)
• Crime and immigration (Chapters 4 and 6)
• Crime and the Internet (Chapter 6)
• Crime and the military (Chapter 8)
• The genocide in Darfur (Chapter 11)

About the Author:

            John E. Conklin, professor of sociology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, was born in Oswego, New York, in 1943 and raised in Syracuse, New York.  After earning a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1965, he completed his doctorate at Harvard University in 1969 and did research at Harvard Law School's Center for Criminal Justice for one year before taking a position at Tufts, where he now offers courses in criminology, crime and the media, sociology of law, and sociology of sexual behavior.

            Professor Conklin's first book, Robbery and the Criminal Justice System (1972), was based on data he gathered in Boston.  He also wrote The Impact of Crime (1975), a study of community reactions to crime, and "Illegal but Not Criminal": Business Crime in America (1977). The first of nine editions of Criminology appeared in 1981.  Art Crime--a study of theft, forgery, and fraud in the art world--was published in 1994.  His New Perspectives in Criminology (Allyn & Bacon, 1996) is an edited collection of papers published by leading criminologists during the 1990s.  In 2003, Allyn & Bacon published Professor Conklin's Why Crimes Rates Fell, an examination of the reasons that crime declined so dramatically in the 1990s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0205608965
• ISBN 13: 9780205608966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 485