Criminological Theories and Theorists: An American Social Perspective on Crime - Softcover

Botta, John J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1414000332 ISBN 13: 9781414000336

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

Criminological Theories and Theorists focuses on many of the traditional hypotheses about the causes of crime, the possibility of crime prevention, and the significant historical figures associated with crime theory- all from an American sociological perspective. In Part One, Professor Botta discusses The Foundations of Early Criminological Thought, chronologically guiding his readers from the dawn of the theoretical roots of societal crime mythology to the doorstep of the science of criminology in America in the modern age. In Part Two, Professor Botta introduces his readers to The Foundations of Modern Criminological Thought, covering contemporary criminological theories and their sociological impact on the science of criminology in twenty-first century America. In addition to the substantive material in this intriguing contribution to the classroom and scholarship, a series of essays on contemporary topics and influential philosophical leaders is presented to readers as a pragmatic example of the relationship among several academic disciplines and the science of criminology. This approach demonstrates how philosophical ideas generate sociological policies that help create criminological theory. This extraordinary presentation represents a concise treatment of the multi disciplinary approaches to criminology practiced in the United States today through a melding of philosophical, interdisciplinaryexaminations of real-life sociological problems.

About this title

About the Author:

John J. Botta, Jr. is an Adjunct Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Colby-Sawyer College, an Adjunct Professor of Writing, Humanities, Sociology, and Criminal Justice at Franklin Pierce College, and is former counsel to Federal Agents' Local 121. Professor Botta has lectured internationally in areas of Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Ethics. He is agraduate of New York Law School (JD), California State University (MA), Trinity College and University in the United Kingdom (MA), and Seton Hall University(BA). Professor Botta is the author of To Hug an Angel, Surviving the Journey: A Universal Approach for the Student Critic, and Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: A Study in the Genre of Memoir. He resides with his wife of thirty-three years in North Sutton, New Hampshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1414000332
• ISBN 13: 9781414000336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168