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Crime, justice, and society : criminology and the sociological imagination / Ronald Berger, Marvin D. Free, Jr., Patricia Searles.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : McGraw Hill, c2001.Description: xx, 524 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0072896132 (acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.973 22 BER
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CONTENTS

PART 1: ISSUES, METHODS, AND THEORIES
Perspectives on the problem of crime
Crime data and methods of research
Individualistic explanations of criminal behaviour

PART 2: PATTERNS OF CRIMINALITY AND VICTIMIZATION
Class, race/ethnicity and street crime
Gender and crime
Sexual violence against women and children
Organizational crime: Licit and Illicit business
Political and government crime

PART 3: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND THE SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
The police and the courts
Punishment and corrections
Peace-making and postmodern criminology

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-511) and index.

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